12-28-2006, 11:13 PM
The Last Amazon while interesting tale it went completely off from ''historical fiction'' scope. Its more of a fantasy gengre. Which isnt bad by itself but thre are alot better stuff out there in that field, on top of my head the ''Song of fire and Ice'' series and ''Elric'' series. He mixed age of bronze, geometric age, classical age, mythology and personal fiction. Its in my mind in the same level as Manfredi books. Everybody has fun with them but none takes them serious.
The point is that Mr Pressfield thought that he found the goose with golden eggs and started mass production. Well.. steaks are great but if you have them everyday for lunch and dinner eventually you will be sick of them. I think he has to expand his ''media'' if i may say so for a writer, and try for a new breakthrough as Gates of Fire was or else his book will be considered geesy instead of fascinating.
Pitty. its like Metallica. Started a s great innovating band and ended up as the biggest gear in the commercial music industry.
The point is that Mr Pressfield thought that he found the goose with golden eggs and started mass production. Well.. steaks are great but if you have them everyday for lunch and dinner eventually you will be sick of them. I think he has to expand his ''media'' if i may say so for a writer, and try for a new breakthrough as Gates of Fire was or else his book will be considered geesy instead of fascinating.
Pitty. its like Metallica. Started a s great innovating band and ended up as the biggest gear in the commercial music industry.
aka Yannis
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Molon lave
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Molon lave
