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    Last of the Amazons
    Last of the Amazons
    Last of the Amazons
    Audiobook14 hours

    Last of the Amazons

    Written by Steven Pressfield

    Narrated by Christine McMurdo-Wallis, Alyssa Bresnahan and George Guidall

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    About this audiobook

    Steven Pressfield is the internationally best-selling author of Gates of Fire and Tides of War. An epic of love and war, Last of the Amazons is a gripping, imaginative novel of the ancient world filled with Pressfield's trademark extraordinary attention to detail. In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, king of Athens, journeys to the nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks called Amazons.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 29, 2011
    ISBN9781461811879
    Last of the Amazons
    Author

    Steven Pressfield

    Steven Pressfield is an author of historical fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays

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    • 3/5
      My disclaimer. I am a fan of Steven Pressfield. On the strength of Gates of Fire and Virtues of War I decided to read the Last of the Amazons. I wanted to like this book in an intense way. The framework of the story is superb. The idea of the story is superb. The execution is not. In short. The story focuses on the pursuit of An amazon woman across the classical Greek landscape. Sounds great? Yeah a really cool concept. The positives of the story. Incredible combat scenes and very good dialogue. Pressfield does a bang up good job of giving you a beautiful pallet of colors and descriptions of the classical Greek ideal. The images fly off the page. By the time you are done reading this book you will have blood splattered across your brow and will be checking your appendages to ensure they are still attached. The negatives of the story. The pacing is horrible and the author gets lost and loses us in his timeline. What we have is a person telling a story who is telling a story about a person telling a story that is remembering a story that someone told them about someone else telling a story. Another author, Elizabeth Kostova, is notorious for this. When someone is recalling something that happened in such a way that the tone never shifts and the recall of memory takes over and smothers the initial reason for recalling the memory. Is this a weakness in writing. Not necessarily. The Last of the Amazons should have been a little more linear and about 500 pages longer. Wallace Breem’s “Eagle in the Snow” is a good example of this. The Last of the Amazons is a good book with a good premise, but a crack running right through the middle of the story. There are way too many characters fighting for space in the short amount of time it takes to read. It could have been epic.
    • 2/5
      His usual detail -- and gore -- but the ending cannot be in doubt from the first page.
    • 3/5
      Though not quite as engaging as Gates of Fire, Pressfield's story of the legendary Amazons and Athenians in the time of Theseus is another page turner.
    • 4/5
      Very cool battle scenes and amazon traditions. A bit repetitive and not much character development.