Ilium
by Dan Simmons
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Author: Dan SimmonsEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-28
ISBN: 0380817926
Number of pages: 752
Publisher: HarperTorch
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Book Review: A Very Effective Trailer for "Olympos"
Summary: 4 Stars
A scholar from the 20th century is brought back to life by Greek Gods to watch the ongoing battle of Troy. A group of robots is sent to Mars to monitor suspicious activities. A few friends are enjoying an idle life on Earth, in the distance future.
Mister Simmons has a lot of ideas. I suppose you could draft several good movie scripts, or even a good TV show, just by adapting a couple chapters. And he seems to have a true fondness for classic authors, so he's throwing also some chunks of Shakespeare, Proust and, of course, Homer. Mister Harold Bloom, the scholar who wrote so much about the "influence" as a key element in literature, would have a field day observing Mister Simmons's rewritings of Homer's Iliad.
The books is not as much choral as built on parallel lines. So you may have the feeling, from time to time, to have three novels in your hands and not one. Fortunately, the story, at one point, gets some momentum and heads for a big finale, that is, a tremendous cliffhanger. Next stop: "Olympos", the second part of this tale.
Overall, it was a good reading. The book is a page-turner. Mister Simmons is not very crafted when it comes to words, but he has a great eye for scenes, twists, hooks and cliffhangers. The personal dramas could have been more elaborated. But I'm off to "Olympos" now - so, he got me asking for more. That's a rare gift.
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