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A Poor Story Told Well

Revisado: 05-13-18

Steven Pressfield brings a lot to the table like no one else does. He has a knack for writing in a way that feels authentic to the period he's describing, of grounding the material he writes about in a gritty and realistic way while not losing the sense of grandeur and myth. There are few writers with as strong a grasp of how to present battles, granting both the an overall understanding of the events as well as the individual experience.
And despite all these great virtues, Last of the Amazons is a frustrating and even at times infuriating read/listen. The crux of the issue comes down to the dissonance between the characters and events and how the story expects the audience to feel about them. Characters central to the plot continuously make appallingly bad decisions, blame others for the outcomes of those decisions, and expect their atrocities to be viewed as romantic and noble. Which is not in and of itself a negative. The Greek myths and classics Last of the Amazons is inspired by are steeped in hubris and tragedy. The problem arises when the story doesn't expect the audience to look on the events described this way but to actually buy into the professed romance and nobility of it all, leaving some strange impressions regarding the moral the audience was intended to take away from the story.
Pressfield is a master of his craft and there is little more that could be asked of him in the delivery of his tale. The story itself, however, like many of its characters, presents its faults as virtues and expects the audience to take it at its word.
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