Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Homer Tarantino's gory classic of bromanticism - The Iliad

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Stuff We Talked About

We read different translations of this here gruesome volume - Kristianne had the Robert Fagles and Greg read the Carolyn Alexander
Want to understand the Iliad? This is the only infographic you need
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
The War that Killed Achilles by Carolyn Alexander
Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
Our ridiculous episode about The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
Shakespeare's Second Best Bet
The Myths and Legends Podcast
Christa Wolf's book on Cassandra that we should've read!

Greg:

Devil House by John Darnielle (also Wolf in White Van and Universal Harvester)

What Song Did We Choose?

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