epics

Maybe I'm just getting too old for this crap ... but, honestly, the level of thought going into these "original epics" is miniscule.

District 9...Good God! rabid1st 2009

I think the lesson Chan learned from reading Chinese epics is that it's perfectly okay if the beginning takes you 1500 pages.

mrissa: Books read, early May mrissa 2010

I think the lesson Chan learned from reading Chinese epics is that it's perfectly okay if the beginning takes you 1500 pages.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2010

His poetry, informed by the violence of Greek and Latin epics, augmented by the events of

Robinson Jeffers 2010

Rumanian literature, written in the Slavic tongue, boasts a few rhymed chronicles which are sometimes termed epics, while modern Rumanian prides itself upon Joan Delaemi's locally famous Epic of the Gypsies.

The Book of the Epic 1894

"He said he couldn't decide which of the epics was his favourite," his New York Times obituary reported.

Jillian Burt: Grinderman is the First Great Band of the Anthropocene Epoch 2010

Then some gentle editor at Fawcett took him aside and informed him politely that children do not read 400,000-word epics, and the story would have to find an adult audience or none at all.

Back in communication superversive 2007

The most important texts about the Trojan War are two long poems, called epics because they tell of the heroic deeds of men long gone.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

The most important texts about the Trojan War are two long poems, called epics because they tell of the heroic deeds of men long gone.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

He traced the development of the Homeric poem back to sources no longer extant, and declared that the epics were a later construction, compounded out of heroic songs and primitive folk-poetry.

HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968