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The Golden Ass
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WARNING: This rating is based on the opinion and feelings of a teenager ; )
I don't remember exactly when I read this book. I do remember however, that it was a school assignment and that I might have been 13 or 14 years old. My judgment back then was vastly different from my judgment now and it wasn't a book I chose to read voluntarily but was forced to read it instead, which worsened things since I tended to hate every book my teachers wanted me to read on principle alone.
Anyways, since I haven’t read it again, all I have as a guide are my thoughts about The Golden Ass from back then, so I do want to be loyal to my young feelings and just say what I thought of the book when I was still blooming:
Generally speaking I found it dragging. OK, fine! I thought it was incredibly boring! I was a kid reading a huge classic what did you expect!(I know is not huge at all, it just felt that way to me :P) But! There was a part of the book that utterly enthralled me and I absolutely loved; it was where the myth about Cupid and Psyche was told. It was sooo beautiful that that’s when I got interested in Greek mythology for the very first time.
So I started reading The Golden Ass and I was like:
Then Cupid’s and Psyche’s myth started and I was like:
The myth continued and I was like:
Then the myth ended and we went back to the main storyline, and so until the very end I was like:
The End.
I don't remember exactly when I read this book. I do remember however, that it was a school assignment and that I might have been 13 or 14 years old. My judgment back then was vastly different from my judgment now and it wasn't a book I chose to read voluntarily but was forced to read it instead, which worsened things since I tended to hate every book my teachers wanted me to read on principle alone.
Anyways, since I haven’t read it again, all I have as a guide are my thoughts about The Golden Ass from back then, so I do want to be loyal to my young feelings and just say what I thought of the book when I was still blooming:
Generally speaking I found it dragging. OK, fine! I thought it was incredibly boring! I was a kid reading a huge classic what did you expect!(I know is not huge at all, it just felt that way to me :P) But! There was a part of the book that utterly enthralled me and I absolutely loved; it was where the myth about Cupid and Psyche was told. It was sooo beautiful that that’s when I got interested in Greek mythology for the very first time.
So I started reading The Golden Ass and I was like:
Then Cupid’s and Psyche’s myth started and I was like:
The myth continued and I was like:
Then the myth ended and we went back to the main storyline, and so until the very end I was like:
The End.
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Reading Progress
November 1, 2002
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Started Reading
November 1, 2002
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Finished Reading
July 12, 2012
– Shelved
July 12, 2012
– Shelved as:
c-read-classics
September 5, 2015
– Shelved as:
reviewed
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KathyAnne
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Apr 18, 2015 05:19PM
I have never heard of this book... or maybe I just slept through it when I was in High School... LOL...
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Hahaha, to tell you the truth, I don’t think we were suppose to read it at that age, but my teacher was ancient (in fact, he retired after that year) and was really into Greek and Latin Classics so he made us read a bunch of books that we were too young to appreciate like The Aeneid, The Iliad and a few others. The Golden Ass is less heard of because is an Ancient Roman Classic.
I only purchased and read this book for the tale of Cupid and Psyche. I tracked it down after reading the story in my World Mythology class. I still love this to this day.Great open and honest review and cute pictures. Heh!
Thank you, Treece!It really is a beautiful myth. When I started Uni, I took a course about Greek Mythology only because of how much I loved Cupid and Psyche's tale back in high-school. To this day, I am very glad I did. It comes to show how sometimes what we read in school, it does have some transcendence. Only sometimes, though. ; )
