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Olympos

Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in...more
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few weeks ago
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few weeks ago
Nowhere near as catchy as Ilium. Couldn't finish it, got so bored.
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few weeks ago
Awesome world, amazing ideas, exciting characters.
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few weeks ago
The resolution to <Ilium> calls upon every power at the reader's command, including a vasty knowledge of Proust, Shakespeare's Dark Lady arc, and the Homerics. As such, added into the weave of high level SF, this novel should not succeed, but for me--it does. However, I find it to have the least "heart" of any of the four Cantos that Simmons has written. Technically brilliant,...more
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few weeks ago
a lot of fun to read,a series of 3
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few weeks ago
As fast paced as the previous one, this book closes all of your open questions and then some. It does go crazy (as if Ilium hadn't allready), but it is still a fun read. It kind of loses steam in the last bits and the ending suffers from a big case of Deus Ex Machina. If you read Ilium, you will be compelled to finish it anyway. Do not, by any chance, read this book without reading Ilium. Not...more
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few weeks ago
So good.
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few weeks ago
robots, literature, aliens, and mythology... what's not to love?
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few weeks ago
A bit disappointed, but again, maybe the french translation is not so good...
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few weeks ago
This is a wonderful book full of detailed plots and sub-plots that all intertwine to form a delicate web of mystery and mythology. Absolutely the best book I have ever read. Life-changing in it's depth and breadth. I have finally found a novel that satisfies my thirst for detail.
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  • ISBN-10: 0380978946
  • ISBN-13: 9780380978946
  • ISBN-10: 0380817934
  • ISBN-13: 9780380817931
  • ISBN-10: 0380978946
  • ISBN-13: 9780380978946
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