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Title: Good reach, author's voice over powers narrative
Review: This book is like Pressfield other book Gates of Fire. He has done his research on Greek history. Some people in his book are comic book-like and are not believable as real people. Others are better. The thing I dislike is his author's voice. Like with Gates of Fire, you can hear the author's view over the narrative of the story. You can tell the author's opinion on Greek society. In a great novel, you you just are shown a picture. In lesser novel, you get what the author thinks of the picture.With Pressfield, you get very loudly his disdain for Sparta and his love for that other city.For me, always knowing the author's world view takes me out of the picture.Wyatt Kaldenberg
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