![]() But anyone who has been in a book club or a reading group knows this phenomenon, that people's reactions to a text say a lot more about them than they do about the book they're reading. "At first, I was a little shocked by the vehemence of dislike of Odysseus. 'If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.' He loved being challenged and I think it was because that's how he saw the world as a young person." ![]() We heard it a thousand times when we were growing up. That was such an intimate part of his self-definition. ![]() I think that formed his vision of life - that it was tough and the odds were stacked against the little man. His dad - my grandfather - was a union electrician and scrambled for work when he could get it. "My dad was born a week before the stock market crash in 1929 and his childhood and youth were haunted by the Depression. ![]()
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