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Madeline Miller (1) (1978–)

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Madeline Miller is a novelist who was born in 1978 in Boston. She earned her Bachelor's and Masters Degrees in Classics from Brown University. She soon began teaching Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare to high school students. She also took classes at the University of Chicago's Committee on Socila näytä lisää Thought and at the Yale School of Drama. Her debut novel,The Song of Achilles, was released in 2011. It won the 17th annual Orange Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2013 Chautauqua Prize. Her next title, Circe, made the bestseller list in 2018. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset

Akhilleen laulu (2011) 12,808 kappaletta
Circe (2018) 12,112 kappaletta
Galatea: A Short Story (2013) 1,055 kappaletta
Circe | The Song of Achilles (2020) 11 kappaletta
Untitled 9 kappaletta
Untitled #2 4 kappaletta

Associated Works

xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths (2013) — Avustaja — 274 kappaletta

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"Shakespeare-esq things in the news", The Globe: Shakespeare, his Contemporaries, and Context (tammikuu 2022)
Le Salon reads the Iliad, Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (huhtikuu 2020)
GROUP READ - The Song of Achilles, 2013 Category Challenge (kesäkuu 2013)
The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller, World Reading Circle (helmikuu 2013)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, Orange January/July (heinäkuu 2012)

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It took me quite a long time to get through this book. I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would when I started it. I already kind of knew the story of circe and pasiphaë and aeëtes but it was actually quite nice to read it like this. Madeline Miller had a very beautiful writing style, it’s like she’s telling a story in a way that you can savour it, not rush through it. Even though it took me like 3 weeks, I’m so glad I did end up reading circe, she has always been one of my favourite greek mythology figures and I’m glad I enjoyed this.… (lisätietoja)
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Liesl. | 469 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 10, 2024 |
The Classical spin-offs I’ve read so far are by fine, intelligent writers. I'm thinking of David Malouf's [b:Ransom|6460814|Ransom|David Malouf|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1241983288l/6460814._SY75_.jpg|6651239] and Mary Renault's [b:The King Must Die|39359728|The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)|Mary Renault|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1521860840l/39359728._SY75_.jpg|2758229], Madeline Miller is such a writer with her intricately woven tale in an unpolluted world from the depths of our consciousness. Having enjoyed [b:The Song of Achilles|13623848|The Song of Achilles|Madeline Miller|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1357177533l/13623848._SY75_.jpg|16176791] it was time to reach for Circe. My daughter had given it to my wife to read. Inside was a lovely daughter-to-mother card; a bookmark which seeped archetypal humanity into the pages.
When I read, I sometimes turn over corners and even pencil-mark passages that prompt return reflection but with Circe I found myself so engaged with her world and its god/human relationships that now, as I look back, I bask again in the warmth of her firelit romances with Daedalus and Odysseus. Her growing attraction to Telemachus seems perfectly natural for a deity. Though Circe is a goddess, she is also a woman doing her best to find her way through the maze of the heart’s yearnings. That she is immortal makes her all women and at the same time, an individual woman with unique problems and some unique approaches to dealing with them. Miller’s style is heroic and timeless.
I walked steadily down the ocean’s shelves. Above me the tides kept up their relentless motion, but I was too deep to feel them. My eyes lit the way… At last, I landed on the sea’s lowest floor. The sand was so cold it burnt my feet. All was silent there, the water utterly still. The only light came from drifting strands of luminescence. He was wise, this god. To make his visitors travel to such a hostile place, where nothing lived but him. (p.243)

I’m at home in this world where the voices of gods can be heard as thoughts, there are speaking looks, lions and wolves are pets, and where the house cleans itself. In ancient Greek the word atheos did not mean atheist. Instead, it referred to someone the gods had abandoned. That nymphs or nature spirits inhabit and protect almost every recognisable land or sea form seems perfectly rational to me. In fact, I would notice their absence.
On my desk is my grandfather’s lamp; a sculpture of Daphne (a naiad) escaping the advances of Apollo by turning into a laurel tree. Naiads, nereids, dryads? Here’s a rough (incomplete) guide:

  • Acheloids (from the river Achelous)
  • Alseids (groves)
  • Dryads (forests) with hamadryads (trees)
  • Hydriads (water)
  • Leimoniads (meadows)
  • Meliads (ash trees)
  • Naiads (springs and rivers)
  • Napaea (valleys)
  • Nereid (the Mediterranean)
  • Oceanids (the sea)
  • Oreads (mountains)

For me, the Classical world is forever fresh. Perhaps it’s that the Ancient Greek pantheon does not distinguish between cosmic principles, anthropomorphic deities, material realities, and metaphor that it remains alive and as relevant to the urge for story telling and artistic expression as ever. Madeline Miller’s response is a delight.
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simonpockley | 469 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 25, 2024 |
I read Madeline Miller's "Circe" last year and completely adored it, and that pushed me to finally pick up this book. I was truly expecting to love it totally but I think (especially compared to "Circe") it just wasn't as jaw-droppingly wonderful as I was expecting. The beginning third of the novel was my favorite as the world unfolds and we get a pretty narrowed in look at Patroclus and then Achilles. Those were the moments I felt like their relationship was best because we as the reader got to see them learning about each other and their places in the world together. Also, the portions with Chiron were very engaging and I found myself wishing we had more of those lyrical, mythical moments.

Then I felt like the book began jumping around quite a bit and the pacing got a little awkward. For instance, the sort of sideplot about Achilles briefly going into hiding felt almost totally disconnected from the story as a whole and I can't see how it added much to the story. Then everything becomes a loooong war story, and the next 10 years fly by pretty quickly, with us getting only small bits of information. There is fighting, death, an immature king, but it all felt a bit lacking? I think some of these scenes could have been rewritten to further develop the relationship between Patroclus and Achilles and REALLY make me feel for them; Achilles felt so distant and petulant most of them time that it was difficult for me to care about him. I enjoyed Patroclus, but his every thought is about Achilles, so again, it was difficult for me to get invested when I didn't care about a major character.

I'll also note that I listened to this on audiobook, which I don't do very often simply because I like seeing the words more. The narrator of this book (Frazer Douglas) was not good. His voices for both Achilles and about three different side characters sound exactly alike, and I had trouble differentiating them when it wasn't explicitly written who was talking. Also every female voice Douglas is laughable and sounds like a cartoon voice. So there is the chance that I might have liked this better in print.

It's definitely not a bad book by any means! I can see why a lot of people enjoy it, and there were portions I liked, too. It's just not my favorite and I think it's a tad overhyped. If there had been less long portions of war talk and more magic or character development I would have liked it more, but that happens a lot in "Circe" so I'll just plan on reading that again in the future. :)
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deborahee | 500 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 23, 2024 |
Perfect
 
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ratatatatatat | 32 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 21, 2024 |

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