Free Online – Circe By Madeline Miller
Circe is a book by the author Madeline Miller. The content of the epic book is about family rivalry, court intrigue, love and loss, and celebrates the indomitable power of women in a one-man world. In the house of Helios, the sun god and the most powerful of Titan, a daughter was born named Circe. She discovers she has witchcraft powers, able to transform opponents into monsters and threaten the gods.
Here are the top 3 reviews and comments that readers love about this fascinating book.
Review 1: Circe audiobook by Michael
Refined writing with an intimate performance
I don’t know why this book had such a profound effect on me, but it was unlike anything else I’ve listened to so far. I don’t consider myself a mythology nerd, but looking at books I’ve listened to in the past (Norse Mythology, Fifteen Dogs), I probably am. It wasn’t really the mythology that grabbed me though, but way more so the intimate experience of living inside of Circe’s mind for 12 hours.
You can tell that Madeline Miller took great care to really dive into and visualize Circe’s experience. It’s so real!
The self-doubt, the grappling with her identity, her punishment, her privileges, and her mistakes. Circe as a character is so dynamic, and Miller polishes each thought, each minute detail, like a diamond. The dynamic perspective also adds so much to the familiar stories and fables of greek gods and heroes that we see them all in a totally new way.
Odysseus is especially more human than ever. His skill in trickery and leadership turns into something new entirely, and his heroism (and so the very concept of heroism) is illustrated remarkably well.
Yeah maybe I am a little too into mythology, but if anything this book made me realize it more than ever.
Lastly, this audiobook debuts a brilliant new talent to audible. Perdita Weeks. Omg. She is amazing and can do anything. The way she fluctuates between male and female voices is one thing. I didn’t even notice it was her at first, narrating the men.
But the raw emotion she pours into Circe’s internal struggle nails the point of this story on the head. She turns what is essentially a lonely monologue into a three-dimensional experience.
In the end you have two people Madeline Miller and Perdita Weeks, who wholly and honestly assumed the role and mind of Circe, and lived it for the duration of this story.
I could keep writing about this forever so I’m just gonna end it here, because you probably get the point.
Review 2: Circe audiobook by Jim N
Magnificent!
This is the best book I’ve listened to in ages. Beautifully written from start to finish, Madeline Miller’s novel breathes new life into old mythology. Through Circe’s eyes, we perceive the strange and callous cruelty of the gods (and of men), the fleeting lives of mortals, love, loss, and the strange and wondrous magnificence of the world. There are heroes and monsters, adventure and witchcraft. The book is breathtaking in it’s scope yet immensely personal and moving as well. It’s a truly impressive achievement and I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Perdita Weeks’ narration is top notch.
Review 3: Circe audiobook by Gillian
Filled With Grace, Action, Humor–Unforgettable
To say that Circe proves Madeline Miller to be an excellent writer, capable of capturing setting, time, characters, and essence, is an absolute understatement. I haven’t been so entranced by a book since City of Thieves.
Though they are entirely different forms of work, both books have unforgettable characters, and Miller’s writing places you, the reader, right in the midst of gorgeous places, living with the larger than life, whether gods or mortals.
Here you’ll find Circe, someone who was shaped by an early act of grace given to Prometheus, living amongst the likes of Daedalus and Icarus, Jason and Medea, Odysseus and Penelope. Then too, she butts heads with Hermes and Athena, with Helios himself. She moves among them all.
She is moved by terrible violation and the tenderest of pity. She grows into a woman of strength and independence, and finds that, through generation after generation of life, there’s a difference between immortality and actual living. It’s a beautiful tale, elegantly written, with act after act of the unbelievable, the unforgettable. Truly, this is a story written from the divine for us, mere mortals.
And Perdita Weeks! Though at times I had trouble with the volume, as she goes from quiet thoughts to daring and outspoken declarations, Weeks has wonderful tones, carries dialogue, carries action with grace, ease, and power. What a find she is as a narrator.
I can’t vouch for how closely Circe follows mythology; what I found (in Wikipedia, I admit–not from Edith Hamilton), is quite different, but I can say with complete sincerity, that this story as written is truly a find.
A cover-to-cover listen (what is mere sleep, after all? a trip to the underworld?), filled with gods and mortals, lionesses and wolves, swine and nymphs.
Really, quite remarkable.
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