Elyse M Grasso on Nostr: #writerscoffeeclub 4 What was the first book you read that enormously impacted you? ...
#writerscoffeeclub 4 What was the first book you read that enormously impacted you?
The one that grew roots was the Odyssey by Homer in the Butler prose translation, read when I was 8 or so. It is probably objectively an awful translation, (the Butler prose Iliad is dire) but it was a full translation, not a watered-down adaptation for kids. It was book we had in the house, not a library book, so I could reread it a lot. Athena was and is important.
Tolkien and other SFF works came much later.
The one that grew roots was the Odyssey by Homer in the Butler prose translation, read when I was 8 or so. It is probably objectively an awful translation, (the Butler prose Iliad is dire) but it was a full translation, not a watered-down adaptation for kids. It was book we had in the house, not a library book, so I could reread it a lot. Athena was and is important.
Tolkien and other SFF works came much later.