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| Original Title: | Creation |
| ISBN: | 0385507623 (ISBN13: 9780385507622) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Gore Vidal
Hardcover | Pages: 574 pages Rating: 4.22 | 3595 Users | 303 Reviews
Present About Books Creation
| Title | : | Creation |
| Author | : | Gore Vidal |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Restored Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 574 pages |
| Published | : | September 10th 2002 by Doubleday (first published 1981) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Literature. Novels |
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Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history -- this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C. -- and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations. We meet a vast array of historical figures in a staggering novel of love, war, philosophy, and adventure . . ."There isn't a page of CREATION that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight."
-- John Leonard, The New York Times
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Ratings: 4.22 From 3595 Users | 303 ReviewsColumn About Books Creation
The book has great sense of humor and some rare fine discussions between characters, which I can assume they come from the author's own personality.However, I really disliked the book. The story didn't attract me at all and I had hard time finishing it. There was absolutely no historical reference in the story plus some parts the author intended to make the book so close to hollywood movies. Sorry to who ever liked the book, it's just a personal idea.Cheers.Books these days tend to be divided into two categories: those that are ''entertaining'' and those that are 'interesting'. ''Entertaining'' books are enjoyable to read but they tend to be a bit brainless and mediocre, a bit light; ''interesting'' books on the other hand are often boring and difficult to understand: the reader writhes in his seat and sighes as he battles his way through an 800-page classic of Victorian literature, wondering if he should really be doing something else. Vidal is
Hey Petra thanks for the like : ) As full of himself mr. Vidal was, this book is such a masterwork! I'd like to read it again sometime.
'Vidal has said that he wanted to read a novel in which Socrates, Buddha and Confucius all made an appearance: lacking such a book, he had to write it himself '. A. Burgess Well, he did a good job. Set in the 5th century B.C., "Creation" is the story of Cyrus Spitama, the imaginary grandson of Zoroaster - the prophet of Ahura Mazda, the Wise Lord, and hence the man who introduced the first truly monotheistic cult in the Persian empire. After the invasion of their hometown Cyrus and his Greek
I fail to remember the last time I read such an intense, difficult and informative book. The only book which surpasses this one in sheer mass and complexity is War and Peace. In terms of the tremendous amount of information embedded in this historical fiction, there is none other I can think of. Gore Vidal contends that 5th century BC was one of the most creative periods of human existence. 5th century BC, the age which saw huge strides in creation and expansion of ancient civilizations, a time
One of my favourite books on Iran and history. I first read this in 1982 when I was travelling in India. I had heard of the book before I began an around the world trip in 1981-82 and picked up a dog-eared copy in New Delhi. It had a profound effect on me because most of ancient history came from the Greek side of things primarily from the "Father of History" Herodotus. Vidal took a different tact and wrote this book from the Persian side of history and rightly so. I don't know why Old World
The world was not always as small as it is today. Perhaps, in the future, when man travels beyond our planet, our world will grow again, but for now it is probably as small as it will ever be. But there was a time when journeys were measured in months or even years, when other countries were only known through myth and rumor and the people of every country beyond yours were Barbarians, and the known world covered less than a quarter of our globe. The reality of these times becomes the fantasy of
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