Prashant C. Trikannad

Reader | Writer | Reviewer | Blogger | Comic Book Collector |
Open to connecting with fellow readers and book lovers

[Prashant C. Trikannad @PrashTrik]

I will happily connect with you and engage with your posts if you write about books, more books, and nothing but books—and the pure joy of reading.

[University of Oxford @UniofOxford]

How faithful is Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey to Homer? 🎬

Professor Armand D’Angour explores how the film turns an ancient epic into a modern spectacle.

Warning - the article contains spoilers! ⬇️
https://t.co/n5LMZBE9PQ

[Prashant C. Trikannad @PrashTrik]

I enjoyed watching The Odyssey in a packed theatre as much because of my interest in mythology as for the cinematic spectacle of Christopher Nolan's film. While I'm no expert on Greek mythology, I wonder if Nolan might next bring Zeus, Prometheus or King Midas to the big screen.

[Thorfinn🕊️ @DavidKairoT]

4 books over 1000 pages that are worth every single page.

[CultivatedSoul @SoulCultivated]

Agamemnon’s aura in The Odyssey has
everyone wanting to know his story.

Here are 10 places to start:

1. Robert Graves, The Greek Myths
The House of Atreus, the Trojan War,
and Agamemnon’s return.

2. Apollodorus, Epitome, II.15–III.22
and VI.23–28
An account of Iphigenia, Troy,
Agamemnon’s return, and his murder.

3. Homer, The Iliad
Meet Agamemnon, commander of
the Greeks.

4. Homer, The Odyssey, especially
Books I, III, IV, XI, and XXIV
Agamemnon’s disastrous homecoming
becomes the chief contrast to
Odysseus’s return.

5. Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
Agamemnon must decide whether to
sacrifice his daughter so the Greek
fleet can sail to Troy.

6. Aeschylus, The Oresteia
The essential work: Agamemnon’s murder,
Orestes’ revenge, and the movement from
blood vengeance to civic justice.

7. Sophocles, Electra
Electra’s grief and desire for revenge.

8. Euripides, Electra
Read after Sophocles to compare two
very different versions of Electra and
Orestes.

9. Euripides, Orestes
Read after Aeschylus’ Oresteia. Euripides
begins after Orestes has killed
Clytemnestra.

10. Seneca, Agamemnon
A darker Roman version of Agamemnon’s
death.

Further Reading:
Hyginus, Fabulae 88, 98, 117, and 119–121
Pindar, Pythian 11
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books XII–XIII
Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris
Dictys of Crete, A Journal of the Trojan War

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A 3D poster in Mumbai before the release of the Spider-Man movie.

[Prashant C. Trikannad @PrashTrik]

The only people I discuss books with, including the joys of reading, are my own family. Occasionally, I meet an old friend who reads. As for the article, I agree that the less time I spend scrolling on social media, the more time I have to read—or write.
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Jack Higgins is my favourite author — to me, the bestselling British writer ranks among the finest storytellers of his era. In this post from my archives, I revisit some of his war, action and espionage novels that I've enjoyed for more than four decades.
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A near-mint copy of a DC Comics history book was priced at Rs.450 in a new bookstore. Days later, I found it at a pavement stall for Rs.125. That is the lure of secondhand books. An old post on rare finds, raddiwalas, and the joy of book-hunting in Mumbai.
https://t.co/H8s85HPRdT

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It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a comics fan! A few musings of a die-hard comic-book collector, written in the year we lost Stan Lee.
Image © Sony/Marvel Spider-Man 2
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[Prashant C. Trikannad @PrashTrik]

Get off at Churchgate Station. Borrow a book: Find out how you can do just that at Library Junction—Mumbai's first free public library at a railway station.
https://t.co/3U3qJC6VvP
#Mumbai #Books #Library

[Prashant C. Trikannad @PrashTrik]

📚 10 books to get to know me:

The Sudden series by Oliver Strange

1. The Range Robbers
2. The Law o' the Lariat
3. Sudden
4. The Marshal of Lawless
5. Outlawed
6. Gold Seeker
7. Sudden Rides Again
8. Sudden Takes the Trail
9. Sudden Makes War
10. Sudden Plays a Hand

[Areum🌹 @areumdowoonie]

📝 10 books to get to know me:

1. Holy Mother
2. Laut Bercerita
3. Pasta Kacang Merah
4. Confessions
5. Gadis Kretek
6. Dua Belas Pasang Mata
7. The Newcomer
8. Entrok
9. Keajaiban Toko Kelontong Namiya
10. Absolute Justice (🔼 New Entry)

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[Prashant C. Trikannad @PrashTrik]

Yesterday, I posted about how most of my books were secondhand. This morning, I spotted Leon Uris paperbacks at an old-paper mart. I was tempted to drop my grocery bag and pick them up. Then I thought of all the books at home waiting to be read, and walked on.

It wasn't easy.

[Prashant C. Trikannad @PrashTrik]

Most of my books have come from second-hand bookshops, book exhibitions and old-paper marts in Mumbai and elsewhere, so it's not unusual for me to spot one and swoop in like a homing pigeon. Nothing beats old books—or the smell of old books.

[Prashant C. Trikannad @PrashTrik]

These are the books I read, quite extensively, in my teens, before moving on to Harold Robbins, Irving Wallace and others.

• Hardy Boys
• The Three Investigators
• Just William
• Erle Stanley Gardner
• James Hadley Chase
• Nick Carter

What were you reading as a teenager?

[Prashant C. Trikannad @PrashTrik]

On a short holiday, I have with me a bunch of comics—mostly The Flash—to read, and my tab for books.

[Thorfinn🕊️ @DavidKairoT]

• One of the greatest and most underrated adventure classics ever written.

→ King Solomon’s Mines ⛰️

King Solomon’s Mines follows Allan Quatermain, Sir Henry Curtis, and Captain Good as they cross deserts and mountains in search of a lost man and the legendary mines of King Solomon. Along the way they encounter forgotten kingdoms, ancient customs, political intrigue, and dangers that make every step into the unknown feel earned.

What makes the novel endure isn’t just the treasure hunt. It’s the feeling that the world is still vast enough to hide mysteries beyond the horizon. H. Rider Haggard writes with the confidence of an age when maps still had empty spaces, and every expedition carried the promise of discovery.

Read with an awareness of its Victorian perspective, it remains a landmark of adventure fiction, one that inspired generations of explorers, writers, and stories that followed.

[Prashant C. Trikannad @PrashTrik]

A book fair is coming to town! Need I say more?

[Prashant C. Trikannad @PrashTrik]

Jack Higgins is my favourite author. To me, the bestselling British writer ranks among the finest storytellers of his era. In this revised post from my archives, I revisit some of the novels I've enjoyed for more than four decades.
https://t.co/WzoPAipgGg #BookLovers #BookTwt

[Prashant C. Trikannad @PrashTrik]

A free library has opened right inside Churchgate station—a terminus I commuted through for several years. I visited Library Junction to learn more about this wonderful initiative, and it's worth stopping by and picking up a book on your way in or out.
https://t.co/uIaFuZWNAa