Title: Interesting culture, too much pro-war propaganda.
Product review: I found the depiction of the Spartan culture to be interesting, though I can't say whether it was accurate or not. I did get really sick of the glorification of war throughout the novel. Any sympathy I might have had for the bravery of the defense of Thermopylae had long since evaporated after all the preceding rah-rah macho attitude about war. I wouldn't have minded if it were the *characters* who felt that killing was OK -- after all, this was a warrior culture -- but I felt that the author was really trying to proclaim that war is great, which really put me off.And, honestly, the story wasn't all that compelling. I didn't care much about the different characters, including the narrator, and I couldn't really keep them straight in my head.
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