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Thanks!
I expected to get the book, which I did, in excellent condition.What I did not expect was the autograph of famous British actor Alan Howard who performed the book for years in England.As I said, thanks!!! ... Read more

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A highly energized verse structure, and techniques learned from both stage and cinema, have helped the author produce this English edition of Books Three and Four of Homer's "Iliad". Logue has also published treatments of Homer's "War Music" and "Kings". ... Read more

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The evil witch steals Bluebird for the contents of the egg she is about to lay. The animals of the Valley of Peace count on Rat to save her. ... Read more

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Beautiful Book
This was one of my favorite books as a child and I have been looking for another copy of it. It has beautiful illustrations-- they show visually that same dark magical quality as some Grimm's fairy tales do literally. I highly recommend this book.

Have been searching for this childhood favorite
My sister and I enjoyed this book as children and have been looking for it for a couple of months since our parents recently moved and it has been lost.The illustrations are incredible - really works of art in and ofthemselves!The story is classic and is a little above children of a youngage (at times it's chilling) but together with the illustrations, it makesfor one memorable book. ... Read more

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Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly,
Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face—
Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked:

“Kill! Kill for me!
Better to die than live without killing!”

Who says prayer does no good?

Christopher Logue’s work in progress, his Iliad, has been called “the best translation of Homer since Pope’s” (The New York Review of Books). Here in All Day Permanent Red is doomed Hector, the lion, “slam-scattering the herd” at the height of his powers. Here is the Greek army rising with a sound like a “sky-wide Venetian blind.” Here is an arrow’s tunnel, “the width of a lipstick,” through a neck. Like Homer himself, Logue is quick to mix the ancient and the new, because his Troy exists outside time, and no translator has a more Homeric interest in the truth of battle, or in the absurdity and sublimity of war.
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Great idea, but I'm not sure he's pulling it off too well.
Christopher Logue, All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003)

All Day Permanent Red isn't a bad book, really; the gimmick everyone's been raving about, Logue's meshing of the story of The Iliad with modern idiom, works surprisingly well:

"Think of the moment when far from the land
Molested by a mile-a-minute wind
The ocean starts to roll, then rear, then roar
Over itself in rank on rank of waves
Their sides so steep their smoky crests so high
300,000 plunging tons of aircraft carrier
Dare not sport its beam.
But Troy, afraid, yet more afraid
Lest any lord of theirs should notice any one of them
Flinching behind his mask
Has no alternative."
(37)

The problem here is that Logue hasn't transplanted enough of the actual Iliad for anyone who isn't already intimately familiar with Homer's original to get terribly much out of it. I wouldn't recommend it until you've at least read the original; perhaps, as Logue publishes more books in the series, it'll get fleshed out enough to be able to be approached by the Homer novice, but it is not yet to that point by any means. ***

And The Greatness Contnues
First "War Music", then "Kings" followed by "The Husbands" and now "All Day Permanent Red". Christopher Logue continues to dazzle and thrill with his books based on Homer's Iliad. It's the wonderful juxtaposition of classical images and modern day description that just works. It works when by all accounts all you should have is a hopeless mess. I can't rationally analyze why, but for me the poems operate on a almost physical level. I can feel that sun in the azure sky, so bright it hurts BEHIND your eyes, I can hear the crack of the oiled leather tack on foam-mouthed horses rolling their eye whites to Olympus, I can hear the flight of whispered arrows and I'm dazzled by the Sun God reflecting past glories off burnished armor.

What an achievement. And now there's a new volume to read, "Homer's Cold Calls" which is proving very difficult to find here in the USA and I will be having a buddy buy for me in the UK.

Astounding
Christopher Logue has a lot of guts.He's gotten into the ring with the likes of Fagles, Lattimore, Fitzgerald, Pope, and most courageously, Homer himself - and acquitted himself well.Mr. Logue has pulled "The Iliad," into the 21st Century with less a translation than a re-write.It appears there are numerous volumes containing sections of Mr. Logue's work, and it's a little hard to keep track, but two editions offered on Amazon.com's website, "War Music," and the wondrously titled, "All Day Permanent Red," seem to contain it all.

Mr. Logue writes in a robust verse form that retains the epic language while exploring possibilities for a cinematic look on scenes and situations, as well as opening the field to modern metaphor.Unlike Barry Unsworth's interpolations in "The Songs of the Kings," Mr. Logue's don't jar, but rather deepen, and lift the story from some mythical past to something that is played out continually.A great device considering "The Iliad" is arguably the blue-print for every war story ever written.

I think "All Day Permanent Red" would work for readers with no pre-knowledge of the source, and though I've been through at least three previous translations it certainly worked for me.

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Title: Logue's odyssey.(Notebook)(Christopher Logue)(Theater review)
Author: Andrew Stuttaford
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 25Issue: 4Page: 85(4)

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Title: Letter from London.(author Christopher Logue)(Critical Essay)
Author: Christopher Logue
Publication: The Antioch Review (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: Antioch Review, Inc.
Volume: 60Issue: 2Page: 333(8)

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Title: Christopher Logue. All Day Permanent Red: the First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten.(Book Review)
Author: Michael Leddy
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 78Issue: 3-4Page: 100(2)

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