Book 6: Athena gives Princess Nausicaa a dream that she should go do laundry. (What a crappy dream.) Nausicaa wakes up, looks around, and decides laundry is probably the best idea. So she goes, but while she's washing clothes a naked Odysseus (covered with a skimpy tree branch. rawr.) comes and asks for help. She leads him into the city after giving him some clothes. He also takes a bath after which Athena makes him mega-hot with her god powers.
Book 7: Odysseus makes it to the palace and everybody's having a pretty okay time talking to the stranger who won't say what his name is, but verifies he's not a god. The Queen recognizes the clothes he's wearing and is all "So what's up with you wearing those clothes that I made myself?" and Odysseus tells the story of his flight from Calypso and meeting with Nausicaa. Then the King apparently offers his daughter's hand in marriage to the nameless stranger. (I don't remember that last part, but Sparknotes says it happened.) Also Odysseus cries while someone tells the story of how he argued with Achilles at Troy.
Book 8: I got some information about the Wooden Horse! I dunno if Sparknotes was confused earlier, or if they just double up on the story, but they definitely mentioned the Wooden Horse in this book. And that's all that I remember.
Not really. There were also some games. The young men taunted Odysseus. saying he should compete even though he's an old man, and he showed them good. Nobody messes with Odysseus.
And then we got the song about the wooden horse. Odysseus cries again. The King is finally all "WHAT IS UP WITH YOU CRYING WHEN WE SING ABOUT THE TROJAN WAR?" And the next chapter should be Odysseus' answer to that I believe.
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