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Title: Avoid If Possible
Review: If you're thinking about reading Ilium, don't. While it's a terrific read, it's actually half a 1400+ page book and reading it will necessitate reading Olympos, and Olympos is a pretty terrible book. If you've already read Ilium, I'm so sorry. Save the time and read a synopsis of Olympos, or better still, make up your own explanations for the mysteries in Ilium, they would almost have to be better than the explanations in Olympos, and you'll avoid 800+ pages of tortured, repetitive, and bizarrely misogynist prose that will attempt to negate your fond memories of Ilium. It is truly as if the second book were written by a different author, one whose obvious pleasure with himself belies his sophomoric prose, simplistic politics, and an annoying inability to see his own characters and plots through to a cogent ending despite the massive amount of previously mentioned repetition, not only from the first book, but within this mammoth sequel.
