Bible Study Suite
Reference and Lifestyle
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The Bible Study Suite app has undergone a complete overhaul. It is now better than ever. It's focus...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Secret History in Books
Jan 3, 2018
Surrounding a misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. He becomes engulfed in their dark secrets and things spiral out of control.
The atmosphere surrounding this group of elitist college students smacks of a wannabe Great Gatsby - there's a sense of self-importance, entitlement, and grandeur, of self-indulgence and pretence. While this worked to an extent in terms of characterisation, it also made for a great exasperation for the reader. The characters are so unlikable that you don't even care about what happens to them. And they do appear to be grotesque caricatures of 19th century archetypes bolted on to an otherwise standard 1980's drink and drugs college environment.
The characters lacked depth, although Tartt attempted to mirror them in the Greek stories they studied. In essence it is a good story with some stylish writing but also some dull and tedious conversations and descriptions. Disappointing.
Kiwaka Story
Book and Education
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An Inquiry into the Philosophical Concept of Schole: Leisure as a Political End
Book
Though the ancient Greek philosophical concept of schole is usually translated as 'leisure', there...
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C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs
Book
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The Iliad
Homer Alexander and Caroline Alexander
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Costas Constandinides and Yiannis Papadakis
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Raiders of Scythia
Tabletop Game
Many centuries ago, the Greek, Persian and Assyrian empires controlled vast amounts of land and...