Week 7: Reading Diary Pt. A

I really love how epic Buck's variation is in comparison to Narayan's. I feel like there is always talks about epic poems like the Odyssey and the Illiad, and I feel like Buck's version of the Ramayana is the Indian version of that sort of epic. Narayan's version had the frame tale aspect going of the epic but I don't feel like it was an exciting and epic and Buck's. It's just a really interesting difference. In this reading I really thought the demon magicians Lightning Tongue and Thunder Tooth were awesome. And of course Hanuman was amazing. He's so trusting and loyal. It's no surprise that Vibhishana put so much