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Amazing, but one that causes so much distress.
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Every word is like a drop of wine. By the end of it, I was drunk and giddy with fear for the coming war. You were cruel; you stood by and watch me fall deeply in love with Helikaon the Golden One, Andromache, Argurios, and Laodike; only to take them away from me. Argurios said what was in my heart, "I had not realised until then that my life had been lived in the darkness of a perpetual winter night.
When I saw her, it was as if the sun had rise. You gave me courageous and cunning warriors who fought valiantly - till the end. Did you not know how much it hurt me? Drawing back her hand, she said"May the gods grant you great happiness, my love. More than I have deserved" Only Queen Halysia knew the pain you've caused me.
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But as how Helikaon intend to be her shield, despite his broken heart from losing Andromache, I know you will be my Shield of Thunder. Please promise me that it will get better from here. People talked of broken hearts, but they were wrong. Broken was somehow complete, finished, over. The real sensation was of continual breaking, an everlasting wound, sharp and jagged, like claw of bronze biting into the soft tissue of the heart.
A great book makes you smile, cry, whimper, entranced - LotSB does exactly that. Helikaon King, I love thee. Gemmell remains one of my favorite authors. This first book of the Troy trilogy is without a doubt my favorite works of historical fiction I've ever encountered and is hard to put down. Even now, I'm currently re-reading it a 4th or 5th time not sure which! The series continues to get better and better as the story goes on. When I heard the author passed away during the writing of the 3rd book, I was incredibly devastated.
David Gemmell will be sorely missed, but his books will always live on and I can't wait to have a history class of my own to teach one day where I will gladly sing this man's praises and encourage the next generation to read his books. Cover to cover I enjoyed this book. Ladi-dadi-everybody Gemmel had me meet I wanted to know more about. Even the Egyptian Eunuch who made garments for trade.
Gemmel you are a freaking genius! Gemmel divvied up chapters into scenes where you follow one of his various characters. The story moves forward, but you view it from the different character points of views. A brave risk, and thankfully taken up by an experienced author. This style of writing can loose the interest of the reader due to lack of empathy for certain characters, or the failure of the author to move the story forward.
I never once felt the urge to do either of these. We get to view the protagonist through many character points of view and all of them have different opinions of the man and his actions. Just like in real life, I loved being able to form my own opinion of Helikaon.
Born with a natural leadership talent we get to see how he was nurtured out of it, and then developed back into it. We get to see the mentors who influenced the young prince, and watch the drama of them confronting Helikaon over different actions he took in the book. These chapters offered some beautiful conversations about grief, how a monarch influences his people, and how we recover from haunting sorrows of the past.
When he introduced Andromache I was holding my breath. Can he do this, will he do this? Can he pull off a strong female without making her a non-relatable psychopath, whore, or worse someone we might believe to be strong-but never get to see in action? She was defiant, brave, and a woman who knew her own mind, and limitations. She also displayed heart and compassion. I loved how Gemmell portrayed Odysseus. Brilliant-especially how he brought to life the theory that Odysseus was most likely a form of early drama and not just an example of oral history.
I enjoyed how Gemmell created a solid balance of non-fiction elements into the story. The Greco-Roman world came to life, but we were not subjected to pages upon pages describing buildings, clothing, furniture and food. It was relevant and aided the action and drama. Gemmell knows how to write a battle scene. In my opinion there are many fiction authors to chicken to try.
Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell book review
They skim over the battles-because its hard to write them and you can easily fail trying for a laundry list of reasons. Kudos to an author who cares enough to get the details right, but not douse us in each sword stroke of every soldier on the field. The weapons were right, the use of the weapons was right, the strategies were correct-and as someone who cares about these historical realities it was blissful to read. The battles were awesome. My favorite scenes being Blue Owl Bay, and then the culminating battle at the end. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful.
I wanted the events of the war to have real pathos, for readers to see the tragedies and feel the pain, and to have their hearts soar with the triumphs. Will future volumes in the trilogy follow his adventures after the siege of Troy? I am two-thirds of the way through Shield of Thunder , and still to begin the Fall of Kings , the final book in the trilogy.
He seems to be a man of extremes—certainly other characters are extreme in their opinions of him. How closely does your portrayal follow that of Homer and Virgil? And why is he known as the Lord of the Silver Bow? The title, Lord of the Silver Bow , is one given to the god Apollo.
In an early section of the novel, a child mistakes Helikaon for the god, and later, as a humorous gift, a friend sends him a silver bow. Andromache, betrothed to the Trojan prince Hektor, is a fascinating woman: Here you had less source material to rely on, I imagine. Was it a relief to let your imagination run wild? My imagination always runs wild—for which I am more than thankful.
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Andromache is a great character. When authors talk of great characters, what they really mean is easy. Some characters are tough to write. The author has to constantly stop and work out what they will say or do. With the great characters, this problem disappears. Their dialogue flows instantly, their actions likewise. A friend of mine calls them "Ricks Bar characters," from the film Casablanca. Some characters you have to build, like a sculptor carving them from rock.
You present Agammemnon and the Mykene as arrogant, brutal warmongers, which is pretty much how Homer depicts them too. Alexander the Great is remembered the same way. They had developed universities, in order for young people from peasant families to be educated. They had an international postal service, so that letters could be sent all over the empire.
They had a form of social security so that their people did not starve during famines. They wanted to share their knowledge, and so built a great library containing works of history, science, and religion. They had interpreters there so that foreigners could learn the secrets they has so patiently gathered. The entire works of Zoroaster were kept there, inscribed with gold on sheepskin.
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Alexander, while drunk, thought it would be great fun to burn it all down. Which he and his generals did. They then destroyed the Persian Empire, plunging the Mediterranean world into a series of bloody wars that lasted for generations. Why is he a hero? Beats the heck out of me! Argurios, a Mykene warrior, is sworn to kill Helikaon, yet winds up in his debt, bound to him by his honor as a warrior and a man.
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What is it that sets him apart from so many of his countrymen? He has no understanding of politics, and his rigid values make him ripe for betrayal by those who do understand the cesspit of political thought. I enjoyed your take on the wily Odysseus! Odysseus is great fun to write. Probably—after Andromache—my favorite character. Does The Iliad hold lessons for us as the War on Terror continues?
Someone once said that the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. And here I am, shamefacedly admitting that Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow is the first of his over-two-dozen books I've read. So while I'm not yet in a position to tell you how well this novel stacks up against the rest of Gemmell's bibliography, I will say this. It's a damn sight better than that Brad Pitt movie. In fact, if much of the rest of Gemmell's work is half this strong, I may have to readjust my reading schedule for the rest of the year.
A magnificent alternate history or should that be alternate mythology, as I don't know how much historians can actually say about how much fact lies within Homer , Lord of the Silver Bow combines crisp, unpretentious storytelling with attentive character development that draws a nearly seamless balance between acknowledging its heroes' roles as mythic archetypes, and humanizing them in a way that avoids banality.
The latter of those is where the movie Troy fell short, I think. Like the movie, Gemmell's novel strips the saga of most of its fantasy elements — like the gods, for one — and treats it as a straightforward historical. In fact the only overt fantasy element involves one minor character's precognitive talents. Still, I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that Gemmell's fan base not only won't care, but may well go into dopamine overload.
This is a spectacular, wholly satisfying epic adventure that deserves to be a major bestseller. Our hero is Aeneas, here known by his childhood name of Helakion. A man of honor in a barbaric world, Helakion lives peacefully on Cyprus, where he has earned his wealth building and captaining a fleet of ships that trade all throughout the Mediterranean. When we first meet him, Gemmell goes a bit arch on us, trumpeting Helakion's humane goodness through the ostentatious act of taking in a street urchin and her sick prostitute of a mother.
But before long, he settles into a more believable and relatable hero, a man who has earned the respect of his friends and crewmates through generosity tempered with strength and an unwillingness to suffer fools gladly. Or enemies, for that matter. The megalomanical Greek king Agamemnon has put an enormous bounty on Helakion's life, as a seer has foretold Agamemnon's doom at his hands. When Helakion defeats the Greeks in a pitched sea battle, he tows the remaining vessel filled with Greek survivors back into the port and burns it and the survivors aboard it in full view of everyone.