“Bea Wolf”

“There’s nothing not-fun about this.
I don’t know how important it is to read Beowulf first. I read Beowulf in high school, and full credit to Mr. Johnston, it was awesome.
I was not a classics lover, still ain’t. But Beowulf was a lot more like a superhero comic than anything else I’d read up to that point.
It was simple, there were basically three big acts, there was plenty of action, and while the language was poetic (a negative for me), I knew what the fuck was going on most of the time.
Bea Wolf follows the Beowulf story somewhat, and I’m not sure whether it comes off as odd or boring if you’re not catching the references, which are frequent in both the large and small details, but I think you could probably enjoy this without too much knowledge of Beowulf.
But, like, why? Beowulf is awesome, so you might as well give it a go.
This is coming from someone who reads NO classics, so take my word for it: Beowulf is the best classic to read if you want to slip into classic lit conversation. It’s short, it’s actually a goddamn story, and you still get full classics credit because it’s the oldest story written in English.
I gather Gilgamesh is older. Maybe I’ll have to read that one. “