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If I had to summarise it in a few words: The Iliad is John Wick as it would have been told 3000 years ago.
Its a lot of blood, lack of emotional control by all parties, senseless brutality and grandiose graphic battle scenes. But really theres no sense to it. There are a set of arbitrary rules dictated by fickle gods who can change their minds at any time.
Perhaps this is one of the main attractions of the book: you really are set back in time; in a brutal time where lives were short and inten ...more
Its a lot of blood, lack of emotional control by all parties, senseless brutality and grandiose graphic battle scenes. But really theres no sense to it. There are a set of arbitrary rules dictated by fickle gods who can change their minds at any time.
Perhaps this is one of the main attractions of the book: you really are set back in time; in a brutal time where lives were short and inten ...more
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