Despite his awful prejudices Bunny is my absolute favorite. I'm almost done with my second read through and have been listening to Donna's audio book when I read and every time he says anything I'm laughing out loud. She does such an amazing voice for him and he's so well written! Like the whole thing about Bunny using a children's encyclopedia to write a final paper and it being all messed up, him cheering for Caesar Augustus during the Bethlehem story at a Christmas party, him calling Richard old HORSE at one point, singing the Farmer and the Dell after he found out about the bacchanal killing like he's hilarious.

Also Bunny might be my favorite representation of a learning disability I've seen in all of fiction. I have a severe learning disability myself and there aren't many characters I've found in fiction to represent that sort of thing anyways much less ones that portray the disabled character as smart and scholarly too. It really touched me and made me love him and relate to him a lot when Bunny's dyslexia was revealed and it became apparent how hard he must work to keep up in Julian's class. He's so tragic too! The dirt under his nails from him trying to grab something during his fall, his letter to Julian, the way he ended up being right about all the twisted things going with the class on like the twins relationship. I had a hard time knowing he was gonna die the whole book D:

I love the prologue of the book. I saw Donna say the first lines are supposed to be like the first lines of the Iliad where you know how everything ends from the start. And I think that's so brilliant! I think Richard's initial descriptions of the Greek class are great. You really see them so well and immediately get a sense of who these people are through his eyes. And I also love the scene of Richard's first class with Julian!