Iliad Of Homer

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Paperback, 454 pages

English language

Published Sept. 30, 2004 by 1st World Library.

ISBN:
978-1-59540-148-9
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OCLC Number:
64039804

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4 stars (30 reviews)

Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. - [Wikipedia][1]

[1]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad

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5 stars

Another cracking read for this series, great plotting and the cast of characters continue to develop and interact with each other. Only two quibbles - one the creeping advertorials in there, notably the Iphone advert - but more importantly the way these days the protagonist seems to be made os indestructible material that any normal person would be completely laid low by - I will not give any of it away but seriously, after the first incident she would be incapable of work for a long time.......

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3 stars

Shawn Biltmore, junior executive at the Lerner Corporation spends his days working his boring job and most nights getting drunk at the bar with his only friend Redmond, a rather repulsive character who is also a junior executive at the same company. It is in this usual state of drunkenness that Shawn becomes separated from Redmond on a team building exercise in the woods. The next thing he knows, he is waking up in a hospital, being told that he has been in a coma after a bear attack. Shawn knows it was nothing so ordinary that attacked him in those woods and not long after he begins to feel the changes in himself one of his annoying coworkers is found dead.
I didn't really feel connected to or invested in any of these characters. I'm not sure if Shawn's clumsy attempts to date his nurse and a coworker were …

Review of 'The Iliad' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

"The Iliad" should really be subtitled, "Achilles is an ass". That's basically what the story is about, from almost the very beginning to the last page: Achilles acting like a 3-year old throwing a temper tantrum for most of the length of the story.

Of course, this poem is 3000 years old and one of the oldest works of literature to survive that long; it's an amazing and highly influential work; and there is so much to be learned from it historically and culturally that it's an incredible work of art and pretty much essential to any education in literature.

But, nonetheless, if you ignore all that and just take the story for what it is, it's a long and fairly violent story about Achilles being a total dick and everyone suffering. Plus a lot of lengthy ancient Greek lineage recitations which, if you pick up the audio book, will …

Review of 'Iliad Of Homer' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This review was first posted on Forest Azuaron.

Amount read: 100%

When I knew what rating I'd give it: 85%

I really liked the ending of Prince of Leaf and Stone. Unfortunately, the rest of the novel gets in the way.

There are many times during this book I almost put it down. 12%, 34%, 55%, 67% (gotta love the Kindle's method of progress). The voice is okay and there are relatively few typos, but it reads like D&D fan fiction, even focusing on human and totally-not-elf relationships (thin "Ever-folk" with "leaf-shaped" ears). Other than the main character, Aedric, the characters are inconsistent. Most, even (especially) the long-lived Ever-folk who we're told take years to make decisions, are rash and impulsive. Apparently the love interest, Ophia, is more rash and passionate than other Ever-folk, but in actions other Ever-folk, such as Kiadrin and the King, are at least …

Review of 'The Iliad' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Typical of my style, I made it about three-fifths of the way through the book (through Book 14). This was my first go at a Homer classic and while I don't have anything to compare it to yet, the Fagles translation had a good flow to it. As for the story itself, I enjoyed the interplay of gods and men, but there's only so much I can take of the hundreds of characters battling it out, scene after scene - which I expected; I gave it the 500-page epic the J. J. Try, but couldn't quite make it.

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