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Title: Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield ISBN: 0-553-38204-7 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.58 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: PRESSFIELD DOES IT AGAIN!
Comment: This is a great book! If you enjoyed Pressfield's other epic historical fiction you will enjoy this new work. While not quite as good as "Gates of Fire" it is as good or even better than "Tides of War."
In the previous two books Pressfield took on historical fact (the battle of Thermapylae & the Peloponnesian War), in this book he deals with the myth of the amazons and their encounter with the Greeks of Athens, two generations before the Trojan War.
The book has a number of narrators and it takes some time to get used to the changing narration, but after about 25-50 pages the story really kicks in and your hooked. And make no doubt about it, the strongest characters both on the battlefield and on the page are the women-the amazons-the "tal Kyrte," the free people. Part adventure story and part love story this book delivers. There are battle scenes that are cinematic in their discription of events. So cinematic in fact that James Cameron of "Titanic" fame has optioned this book to make a movie!
You'll find yourself turning the pages as fast as you can to find out what happens next and then sorry when your done reading this really great book by the master of greek historical fiction, Steven Pressfield!
Rating: 4
Summary: WELL RESEARCHED, GRIPPING FICTION
Comment: I'll admit - I was caught up in it and was impressed. Years ago I had read Kleinbaum's THE WAR AGAINST THE AMAZONS, which covered the various depictions of Amazons in the arts: literature and film particularly. In that book she listed all the novels that had been written up to that time and synopsized them. None of them sounded interesting to me because they didn't seem to have come close to even the original myths. This novel though is different. Pressfield did his research and in some ways his depiction of the Amazons is more humane, more centered, and less didactic than previous authors' depictions have been. He is telling an epic story based on classical legends and apparently also on recent archaeological evidence and not forwarding some agenda - women better than men, men better than women, the whole Amazon equals Lesbian blur. I appreciated that aspect of this novel. Pressfield really made an effort to imagine what the 'Amazonian' tribes might have been like.
Rating: 3
Summary: Athens vs. Amazons
Comment: "Last of the Amazons" is another Steven Pressfield novel set in ancient Greece, except this time it is in Greece from mythology. In it, two stories are told at the same time; one of a voyage to the Amazonian lands (modern day Slovic countries) to rescue a young girl who ran off with her Amazon slave/governess. Along the way, the older soldiers tell the story of the first Amazon war with Athens twenty years ago. That story takes up most of the book. There are a lot of secrets that are reveled in the last twenty or so pages that seemes a little over dramatic. And how the battle was conducted and fought seems more or less guess work since it takes place in myth and not history. The conflict basicly boils down to civility vs. savagry, democracy vs. anarchy. The Amazons are portraiyed like the Apaches from a John Ford movie; savage and lawless, but very passionate. All the trouble starts when King Thesus takes one of the Amazonian women as his wife. The Amazons march on Athens and try to destroy it and the royal family for the insult. It is alright, but it seems a bit long in the tooth, especilly in the battle scenes. But it's alright. The violence is very gory, especially the crucifixon of Sith enemies. All in all, Pressfeild's novels seems to be like a overly romantic version of the History Channel.
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Title: Tides of War by Steven Pressfield ISBN: 0553381393 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Gates of Fire : An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield ISBN: 0553580531 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 31 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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