DD is regularly belittling "The Odyssey" and I don't like it

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Dude, the odyssey sucks. I hated it. My kids hated it. But it is right of passage that in English you read some books you hate and some books you love. And what your kid likes will be different than what you like. This is just life.

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Better The Odyssey than Wuthering Heights.

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Anonymous wrote:Better The Odyssey than Wuthering Heights.

Or the John Green novels they make them read. My teen ripped those apart. Rightly so.

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Why are guys falling for this and feeding the troll? Are you all really this stupid?

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Anonymous wrote:Dude, the odyssey sucks. I hated it. My kids hated it. But it is right of passage that in English you read some books you hate and some books you love. And what your kid likes will be different than what you like. This is just life.

You mean rite?

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Anonymous wrote:Better The Odyssey than Wuthering Heights.

I love Wuthering Heights. Sorry you struggled to understand it.

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Troll gonna troll

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Anonymous wrote:DD (15) is reading "The Odyssey" for school. I am a professor of Greek literature, so I may be biased, haha. But I adore this book, maybe more than any book I've ever read. DD has...different views. She regularly announces that she hates or thinks it's bad, and that's okay, she can have her opinions. But she often makes jokes about its apparent poor quality and has even taken to mocking Homer. Yesterday she claimed at dinner that "Sabrina Carpenter could have written The Odyssey but Odysseus couldn't have written Bed Chem". This is starting to seem to me that she's trying to get under my skin. Why is she doing this? If she doesn't like a book that's fine, but why this persistent need to make fun of the book that plays a large foundation in my career?

I'm impressed that your daughter reads ancient Greek at age 15!

Fairly certain that was the point of the post. One of the best VBAs I have read in a while.

What does that mean?

It is the best veiled brag alert I have seen in ages.

Oh, my kid is smart enough at 15 to be in a class where they are reading The Odyssey and also precocious enough to be baiting me by slamming it, which happens to be my favorite book.

Come on, now, it’s bloody brilliant.

MCPS used to be that good. No more. My kid is reading about Trevor Noah in AP English. Barf.

I read Trevor Noah and the Odyssey in my freshman English class. Both are good. You can do both.

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Thinking of Odyssey makes me hot for teacher grrrrr OP.

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You're a Greek Lit professor ??

Can you have anymore of a niche job?

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Anonymous wrote:I know people are making light of this, but it happened to me, too. It's not pretty.

It started with belittling The Odyssey, sure. But then, while listening to Bach one evening, she blurted out that she "just couldn't see the merit--with any of the Baroque composers, frankly". Then she complained that Michelangelo was "technically competent but derivative". It only got worse from there. The Renaissance, Antiquity, all on the ash heap of history in her eyes.

If I want to see her now there's a certain street she works in Anacostia. I drive there some nights, just hoping to catch a glimpse. Get her help while you can.

I love you.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are guys falling for this and feeding the troll? Are you all really this stupid?

Because it's fun?

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Anonymous wrote:I hope this is a joke. God put teen girls on earth to humble their mothers with mockery.

This.

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My mom was an English teacher and was so disappointed when I hated David Copperfield. But I stand by my dislike of that book.

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If you want her to stop, just agree with her. The take it one step further about how wonderful Sabrina Carpenter or whoever she likes is and how no one else in history has come so far culturally. Maybe even throw some stuff in about how her generation is the first of the non-neanderthals. I'd lay it on really thick and have a good time with it, in a very earnest manner of course- for full comedic value you will almost have to dead pan it.