Madeline Miller: "The Song of Achilles"

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• EE

  @eelliee18 · 6 years ago

  i finished the entire book in a day and now there's a gaping hole inside of me

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• PR

  @priyamajumdar3079 · 7 years ago

  Me: <br>My mind: The song of achilles <br>Me: <b>clutches my heart dramatically and cries profusely</b>

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  @---ut6fk · 10 years ago

  She is so brilliant, and The Song of Achilles is spectacular

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• NA

  @nazifapromi3186 · 6 years ago

  You can tell she’s a teacher from how she speaks. And I love it

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• QT

  @Qtrademark · 6 years ago

  &quot;This and this and this...&quot; so beautiful.

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• HI

  @hiraya5769 · 4 years ago

  The whole book is about Patroclus admiring his Achilles. But I fell in love with Patroclus more. What a beautifully written book. Such talent is so admirable and is a blessing to this world. I&apos;m excited to read Circe next. 💗

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• KE

  @kelseychatski7046 · 4 years ago

  “For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?”

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• EM

  @EminaS · 7 years ago

  I DIED!!! So glad I found this talk because she&apos;s answered both of my questions I asked on Goodreads: why she decided to make Patroclus and Achilles the same age as equals and if she&apos;s ever experienced grief over fictional characters. Both answers blew me away! I did not expect the ease with which she found references that A &amp; P were not in a pedorastic relationship! And also I really didn&apos;t expect she&apos;d had such a huge emotional involvement herself (comes as no surprise when you consider the TEN years invested in the novel and her general love of classics since 5), causing her to grieve their deaths! I grieved them too and for a few days I was just depressed and couldn&apos;t move on!! So grateful for this book and these talks!

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• M.

  @m.meghana2365 · 5 years ago

  Name one fan of Song Of Achilles who is happy <br><br><br>You can&apos;t

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• VI

  @viviennedoonar5466 · 7 years ago

  I cried at the end. I feel that I could keep on reading about the two men, their friendship and loyalty is all any of us wish for.

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• AM

  @Amstrdams · 12 years ago

  One of the greatest romance merged with classics novel I&apos;ve read! I absolutely adored every chapter and every event in this novel was just as momentous as the previous and I have a few chapters left to finish but I know the ending and I just know I&apos;ll burst into tears. The Song of Achilles is a novel that stays with the origins of Homer&apos;s Iliad but twists it with Patroclus&apos; and Achilles&apos; relationship so nicely and it&apos;s just such a lovely novel!

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• KA

  @karenfromfinasse8430 · 5 years ago

  Madeline Miller is not mortal, she is divine! How can a human being create something so beautiful as &quot;The Song of Achilles&quot;?

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