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Laddar... Olympos (urspr publ 2005; utgåvan 2005)av Dan Simmons (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This is one potato of a book. Thick, heavy and to most probably intimidating. Civil War amongst the Greek Gods, War both with the heroes of the Iliad and the Odyssey, robots bent on destruction, space cults, love, lust, retribution and the list goes on and on. The second part to the incredible Ilium does not quite come across as the work I expected. Despite Olympos being all over the place it manages to capture the story and give us a little more understanding and maybe a little more humanity than Ilium. The erratic pacing slows the book down to a crawl even though things are happening at breakneck speed. The attention span of this book is like a tattered rubber band, short and crumbly. Olympos is intelligent and epic in scope with characters that have huge personalities none which seem to be able to make up their minds what they want to do. It is easy to understand how Simmons fell into a pit with the story. Just take a look at the work he has put out a decade before and during the publication of Olympos. The man is a machine when it comes to stories and it seems he wrote himself into a corner with this fictional sci fi account of the Trojan War. It is obvious he is an overachiever and works with way too much on plate at times. ( ) Ilium and Olympos are hardly seperate books, so I have included my review for Ilium below since it applies just as much to Olympos as it did to Ilium. You'd think, that after Ilium, the "magic" would be kind of gone. We have explored Ilium, Mars and Earth a bit, so Olympos should give us some answers. Except, Simmons doesn't seem to care for that at all and starts to throw all kinds of crazy at the reader in this one. If someone should tell me that they hated the book for doing this to them and then even at the end given them no real satisfaction, I would understand completely. However, it didn't bother me at all. I was content just being dragged through this ludicrous story and being left in just as much confusion as I was at the start. I don't really know why, but I feel that that's ok. (Review for Ilium) Clearly, Dan Simmons must be insane. I read the back of the book, I read Simmons before, I should have been prepared. Seriously though, I loved this book. I read the Iliad during my last year of high school, so a lot of it came back to me reading this, which was nice. I have no knowledge whatsoever about Shakespeare (or Proust) which made some of the more poetically inclined chapters a bit abstract to me. This is of course not Simmons fault, but it did make me feel that I missed out on a piece of the grander story. Also, it did genuinely make me want to know about the plays by Shakespeare, how about that. There is something about Simmons writing that makes me lose any concept of "sensible". Simmons goes: "Trojan war on parralel universe earth and gods on Mars" and I go: "Okay, go on". Simmons goes: "Robots reflecting on Shakespeare and Proust on the moons of Jupiter" and I go: "Fine". Simmons goes: "Quantum Teleportation, Brane Holes, Little Green Men, Invisibility Hat" and I don't even blink an eye. Any other writer would have got me shouting at the book "Get it together man! This is just getting too much too fast, where in gods name are you going with this?", but for some reason Simmons makes me go: "Sure". This is some kind of magic I thourougly enjoy, and I will be reading much more of Dan Simmons from now on. This is the second and final installment of a very ambitious work, which encompasses multiple story threads, time frames, galaxies and life forms. We have the Trojan War, overseen by Greek Gods located on Mars, moraveks dispatched from Jovian moons, Shakespearean characters in real life (Prospero and Caliban) and a far future Earth, inhabited by the remnants of the human race, but controlled by post-human constructs. This book cannot be read “stand alone”, and if you have read and enjoyed the first book, I would definitely finish the job. This book is actually just a straight-line continuation of Ilium. In effect, they act as a single enormous book, which, given the fact that Simmons wrote it, could have been several hundred pages shorter without losing anything. As I said, it is very ambitious, and at times perhaps excessively so. Some of the action is irretrievably silly and absurd, but not to the extent of making the work unreadable. I’m not sure I would recommend starting the first book, but once you are 800 pages in, it is probably advisable to continue. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve. And now all bets are off. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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