……这种情况下有个书单确实挺有道理。如果有人对希腊神话表达了同样的挫败感,一个可能更有用的回应是推荐 Stephen Fry 的《神话》(Mythos)、《英雄》(Heroes)和《特洛伊》(Troy),他写这几本书的原因恰恰就是这个评论区存在的理由:有些人觉得原始材料很难啃,但背后的信息足够重要,值得重新讲一遍。……
…case having a list makes quite a lot of sense. If someone expressed the same frustration about the Greek myths, a potentially more productive response would be to point someone to Stephen Fry's Mythos, Heroes and Troy, which he wrote exactly for the reason that this comment thread exists: some people find the original material difficult to get through, but the underlying message was important enough to re-tell.…
……刚读完《奥德赛》(Odyssey),高中必读书目,之前我刚读完《伊利亚特》(Iliad),那本高中不要求。读完 Stephen Fry 的《神话》(Mythos)和《英雄》(Heroes)之后再连着读这两本,体验特别棒,我觉得高中本来也可以这么安排,而不是像现在这样东一榔头西一棒子地跳到《麦田里的守望者》(The Catcher in the Rye)之类毫不相干的书上。
…just finished the Odyssey, a required book in high school, after I previously finished the Iliad, which wasn't required in high school. Reading those two together after reading Stephen Fry's Mythos and Heroes books was a wonderful experience that I felt could have been replicated in high school rather than the whirlwind of bouncing around to unrelated books like the Catcher in the Rye.
……这种情况下有个书单确实挺有道理。如果有人对希腊神话表达了同样的挫败感,一个可能更有用的回应是推荐 Stephen Fry 的《神话》(Mythos)、《英雄》(Heroes)和《特洛伊》(Troy),他写这几本书的原因恰恰就是这个评论区存在的理由:有些人觉得原始材料很难啃,但背后的信息足够重要,值得重新讲一遍。……
…case having a list makes quite a lot of sense. If someone expressed the same frustration about the Greek myths, a potentially more productive response would be to point someone to Stephen Fry's Mythos, Heroes and Troy, which he wrote exactly for the reason that this comment thread exists: some people find the original material difficult to get through, but the underlying message was important enough to re-tell.…
……刚读完《奥德赛》(Odyssey),高中必读书目,之前我刚读完《伊利亚特》(Iliad),那本高中不要求。读完 Stephen Fry 的《神话》(Mythos)和《英雄》(Heroes)之后再连着读这两本,体验特别棒,我觉得高中本来也可以这么安排,而不是像现在这样东一榔头西一棒子地跳到《麦田里的守望者》(The Catcher in the Rye)之类毫不相干的书上。
…just finished the Odyssey, a required book in high school, after I previously finished the Iliad, which wasn't required in high school. Reading those two together after reading Stephen Fry's Mythos and Heroes books was a wonderful experience that I felt could have been replicated in high school rather than the whirlwind of bouncing around to unrelated books like the Catcher in the Rye.