Yep, the Iliad. Long, very long...but then again, Mr B read it before he realised he could simply watch the movie.
Background facts: very long poem composed quite a while ago. In Greek, apparently. By a blind dude.
Review: This was surprisingly enjoyable, considering it is about a 10 year siege after which (Spoiler alert) everyone dies, apart from the few people with foresight enough to star in their own poems.
Achilles, pouting, petulantly refuses to play. The Trojans attack the Greeks. People bite the dust. The Greeks attack the Trojans. More dust biting. Helen moons them from the city walls. Deaths abound. The Trojans quarrel among themselves. Achilles is still pouting. Then his best mate is killed and Achilles has a temper tantrum and there is yet more fighting. The Trojan top dude is killed and the book abruptly ends.
Oh yeah, and there's a bunch of inexplicable gods, also fighting.
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