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Recommendation: The Odyssey (Read by Ian McKellen)

Checking out an obscure book nobody on the internet knows about

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Lincoln Michel
Jan 14, 2025
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If you somehow missed it, there was amusing discourse last month about whether anyone should be expected to have heard of some old-ass poem named the Odyssey. It was kicked off when Matt Ramos—an influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers—expressed surprise that Christopher Nolan was adapting a random poem. Apparently, quite a lot …

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