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Old 10-26-2008, 03:34 AM   #1 (permalink)
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After finishing the Illiad I was inspired to have another read of Illium by Dan Simmons, and I can say that I'm much more impressed on this go through. I don't think I was old enough to really appreciate first time round.
It's a brilliant book, boundlessly inventive, intelligent and highly conceptual Science Fiction.
The basic premise is a modern historian has been resurrected by Zeus to observe the battle of troy and make sure it follows the course of history.

I'm definitely going to grab the sequel.
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Old 10-28-2008, 05:21 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I am reading Julius Caesar by Shakespeare and We the Living by Ayn Rand.
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Old 10-30-2008, 02:44 PM   #3 (permalink)
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the plot of star wars comes from hero with a thousand faces, which is just a structuralist breakdown of the monomyth. so by saying something has the same plot as star wars you're really saying it has the same plot as pretty much every epic, ever.
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Old 10-30-2008, 02:47 PM   #4 (permalink)
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the plot of star wars comes from hero with a thousand faces, which is just a structuralist breakdown of the monomyth. so by saying something has the same plot as star wars you're really saying it has the same plot as pretty much every epic, ever.
Which Eragon does, the clicheness of the entire series is so noticable that it's hard to read the books without falling asleep.
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Old 10-30-2008, 05:58 PM   #5 (permalink)
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the plot of star wars comes from hero with a thousand faces, which is just a structuralist breakdown of the monomyth. so by saying something has the same plot as star wars you're really saying it has the same plot as pretty much every epic, ever.
Ok, but the character's have exact analogues in Star Wars. Every aspect of the story is copied from Star Wars and apparently Hero With a Thousand Faces.
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Old 10-30-2008, 02:46 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Lol, there is barely anything original in Star Wars: A New Hope, Lucas ripped off and 'payed homage' to so many sources. Indeed, it is ridiculous to say something is the same as Star Wars.
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Old 10-30-2008, 06:17 PM   #8 (permalink)
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^^^The worst in the series imo.
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^^^The worst in the series imo.
Gunslinger is my worst.

Before reading the series I knew a little bit about the first few books and I honestly thought I wouldnt enjoy book 2, mainly with it being our world and him in people's minds. However, I really enjoyed it the first time and it got the series going full swing, which the first book failed to do.
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