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Sto caricando le informazioni... Killer of Men: 1 (The Long War) (edizione 2011)di Christian Cameron (Autore)
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() For a short post summarising my thoughts on the series from Killer of Men to The Great King, please see my blog: https://theidlewoman.net/2016/04/24/the-long-war-christian-cameron/ you are sitting at the feet of an old man who is telling the story of his life from age seven to mid twenties. He is the son of a blacksmith in ancient Greece, becomes involved in a war between Athens/Sparta/Thebes, is sold into slavery to a wealthy family in Persia, rises in stature as a fighter and wins his freedom, fights in the Persian/Greece wars, becomes a successful pirate, more fighting and eventually returns to his place of birth to have revenge on the killer of his father and the person who sold him into slavery. The book is a personal account told in the first person which is interesting, there are constant asides to his daughter and others she brings in to listen to his story. You get to understand how it was to live as a peasant, as a slave and as a hero...in those ancient times. There is a fair bit of detail there which I like but it is always looking in from a distance. You never really feel a part of the story. The battle scenes are ok...just ok for me. A bit of detail but you don't feel a part of the battle. Not a bad read though the final 40 pages are an anti-climax. Of course it leads to a sequel book whch I might read if I stumble across it but won't actively serarch for it. Written in the first person, the account of Arimnestos's experience as re-told to his daughter in his old age is riveting. No happy tale this. Rather it is the revelation to his daughter that he is a killer of men; a warrior that comes alive in the midst of blood, death and carnage. The story begins with a young Arimnestos given the rare gift (especially for the son of a simple bronze-smith) of a classical education which included reading and mathematics and - equally important in those times - physical education in the arts of warfare. At a young age, Arimnestos is thrust into a phalanx and brutal battle with the Persians. After seeing his father and brother killed, he's sold into slavery. It is then that the true story of young Arimnestos' life as a killer of men truly begins. Cameron does a remarkable job of making you feel as if you’re walking the ancient world of Greece during the bronze and iron age, while at the same time seeing the same motivations that drive us today. This book ends with the promise of more to be said from Arimnestos and I am certainly looking forward to hearing from him again. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In the epic clash of Greece and Persia, a hero is forged - a monumental novel from the author of the Tyrant series. Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked unconscious in the melee, he awakes not a hero, but a slave. Betrayed by his jealous and cowardly cousin, the freedom he fought for has now vanished, and he becomes the property of a rich citizen. So begins an epic journey out of slavery that takes the young Arimnestos through a world poised on the brink of an epic confrontation, as the emerging civilization of the Greeks starts to flex its muscles against the established empire of the Persians. As he tries to make his fortune and revenge himself on the man who disinherited him, Arimnestos discovers that he has a talent that pays well in this new, violent world - for like his hero, Achilles, he is 'a killer of men'. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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