Weekly reading/watching meme

[petronia]

Should be fairly light (last week was heavy).

What are you reading/watching now?

Started the Mark Atherton. Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish arrived so started that as well. More Greek philosophers, in the opening salvo at least (perhaps it's just that it was the first golden era of leisurely, intelligent people giving dinner parties where they

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[acchikocchi]

I was saying to ayalesca that someone ought to try marketing Plato's Symposium as m/m RPF, see where that goes XD;

I'm not admitting anything here, but if one is a 15-year-old who has just read a lot of Mary Renault, one might, hypothetically, proceed to the Symposium by precisely that logic. Hypothetically.

[petronia]

I mean, really the point of this story was that Aristophanes was a hilarious dude and Socrates can get it.

[tochira]

I read The Eagle of the Ninth after seeing the movie, and then tracked down Sutcliffe's other Roman Britain novels posthaste. XD; The dated YA aspects of her books are about as one would expect in some cases... and in others, refreshingly absent. (I recommend reading the book because as short as it is, a LOT was sacrificed, enough to give you a different sort of story altogether, and her sense of place is excellent.) They were reprinted when the movie came out, or at least around the same time, so they should be easy to track down - but if you ever get the urge, The Folio Society published absolutely gorgeous versions of the trilogy. ;)

[petronia]

Thanks for the note! I'll probably track this down at some point (or, more likely, stumble upon it while looking for something else XD).