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10 Books to Pass Up
With Confidence

Richard Wilson saves us all a bunch of time and effort with a not-reading list

Sep 20, 08 5:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Forget the coma-inducing titles that lit lovers keep telling you to read, Richard Wilson writes in his book, Can’t Be Arsed: 101 Things Not to Do Before You Die. He lists the top 10 clunkers in the Daily Telegraph:
  • Ulysses, James Joyce: notoriously hard, so why bother?
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reading • Hunter S. Thompson • James Joyce • book • Ernest Hemingway • Homer • Richard Wilson • Marcel Proust • Jane Austen • Leo Tolstoy

Astronomers Trace Homer's Wandering Hero

Experts tie Odysseus' return to Ithaca with
real eclipse in 1178

Jun 24, 08 9:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Homer's Odyssey is 2,700 years old, and the events it describes happened centuries earlier. But two scientists claim in a new paper that they've traced one line in the epic poem—a possible reference to an eclipse—to a real astronomical event. Classicists might take issue, writes the New ... More »

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astronomy • Greece • poetry • eclipse • ancient Greece • Homer • solar eclipse

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