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I have just finnised reading this really good book called Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield, this book was and historcial fiction about a famous battle in Ancient Greek history known as the Battle of Thermopylae, one of the things which I really enjoyed about the book was the fact that it was not done as some great heroic or romanticized tale, but it was in fact very raw and very brutal with detailed graphic discriptions and accounts. I think it did a very good job at dipicting just what battle would really have been like and conveying the true emotions of the warriors. Instead of making them all flawless and near devine warriors as many books and movies do. It showed them as truly human and mortal and it showed thier flaws, and fears and shames and the true emotions one most really feel in preparing to enter battle. I found the end of the book was also very powerful and to me one of the most facasinating things is the thought that even though the book was just a work of ficition with fictional characters, it was based off something real and real people that were there fighting.
4:22 PM - 4/29/2006 -
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