I got done reading The Odyssey yesterday and I’m much more impressed with this than I was with the Iliad. The flow of the story was a lot smoother. There weren’t whole pages that were just lists of people who died and their entire life’s story, so it wins almost on that fact alone, but the story is actually interesting. Around the middle of the book Ulysses tells his tale of woe on the high sea, and then quickly makes it back to Ithaca, where the story grinds a little, but had a satisfying ending.

Overall I give The Odyssey my seal of recommendation.