Spartians and Gates of Fire

Morning Everyone,

How is life going on? Hope all is well, at your end by the grace of god. At my end, everything seems to be hectic and yet boring!! Hope I post regularly from now. For today, let us have a book tour. I mean, I am not going to post a review until the later part of this week, but going to show few glimpses of the book I am currently reading.

Gates of Fire:

          Gates of Fire, is a historical fiction novel by Steven Pressfield that recounts the Battle of Thermopylae through Xeones, a Spartan Helot and the sole Greek survivor of the battle.

Here is an excerpt from the book, something astonishing, since the men in question are Spartians:

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None of this entered into the scheme of the lady Paraleia, nor Arete either. Her peplos robe was split up the side in the Spartan style, revealing her bare leg to the thigh. This in any other city would have been lewd to the point of scandalous. Yet here in Lakedaemon it was unremarkable in the extreme. This is a leg. We women possess them just like you men. For Spartan males to leer at or ogle a lady in this dress would have been unthinkable. They had beheld their mothers and sisters and daughters naked since they were old enough to open their eyes, both in the girls' and women's athletic training and in the festivals and the other women's processions.

Still these ladies, both of them, were not unaware of their personal magnetism and the effect it produced, even upon a boy in service drawn up before them. After all, wasn't Helen herself a Spartan? The wife of Menelaus,

she whom Paris had carried off to Troy,

the cause of endless suffering

among Trojans and Greeks, and for

whose peerless beauty's sake so many

brave Achaeans lost their lives in Troy

far from their native country.

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My goodness, what the hell is it? Spartian men, always training for war aren’t much interested in women?? I thought it would be other way around, since most of them work hard hard  and harder all day, training for war. There are a lot of such fantastic characteristics of Spartians, which the movie couldn’t portray. Have you seen the movie (300)? Have you read the book, is there anything that the movie missed??

With warm regards

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Urgals and Kulls and Movies

Morning Everyone,

    Long time, since I posted right? Sorry!! Kind of lazy and busy!! ha ha!! Most of us, read books and enjoy them a lot right? But, when a movie destroys the book, destroys the creativity of the author and shows something stupid, I kinda feel angry about the movie and pity for the folks who can't enjoy the ture story!!

    I caught a glimpse of Urgals in the movie Eragon, today early in the morning. I was astonished to see how ugly they were. Some of the descriptions regarding Urgals and Kulls from Eargon series are here:

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Description of Kull From Eldest, When Nar Garzhvog speaks to lady Nasuada regarding combined war effort: 

       He was a magnificent specimen, eight and a half feet tall, with strong, proud--if grotesque--features, thick horns that spiraled all the way around, and a fantastic musculature that made it seem he could kill a bear with a single blow. His only clothing was a knotted loincloth, a few plates of crude iron armor held together with scraps of mail, and a curved metal disk nestled between his two horns to protect the top of his head. His long black hair was in a queue.

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Description of Urgal From Brisingr, when Roran and Yarbog have to fight each other:

Urgals

       Yarbog stood well over six feet tall. His back was broad, his chest deep, and his arms and legs covered with knotted muscles. His neck was as thick as a bull's, as it had to be in order to sustain the weight of his head and his curled horns. Three slanting scars marked the left side of his waist, where he had been clawed by an animal. Sparse black bristles grew over the whole of his hide.

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Urgal

     Kulls were kind of heroes to me, in the sense, the hard work they did, the body they built, the way they were awesome in battle and all. But, the movie turned them into a bunch of overgrown, fat evil fellows with marks all over the face!! This is bad!! I just didn't like it!!Have you seen the movie Eragon? Did the movie, depict the fantasy? the various races and creatures? What do you say?

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Are Boys Blind

Hello Everyone,

    Hope the week is going well for everyone of you. We have a terror attack against one of the most important cities of our country. Kindly pray for all dead, their families, the injured, their speedy recovery, bless the kind souls who risked their all to help the injured and for all the support they need.

  Now, to cheer up, I wanna ask a question. ARE BOYS BLIND?? Here is a small excerpt from Percy Jackson and The Battle of Labyrinth. Ms. Annabeth is the best friend of Percy. Percy had to take help of Ms. Rachel in a quest and Ms. Annabeth is quite angry with it. She is behaving angry, irritated, so on!!! In simple words, Ms. Annabeth is supposedly in love with Percy here.

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   "We'll follow the path," she said. "The brightness on the floor."

 
   "The brightness that led us straight into a trap?" Annabeth asked.

 
   "Lay off her, Annabeth," I said. "She's doing the best she can."

 
   Annabeth stood. "The fire's getting low. I'll go look for some more scraps while you guys talk strategy." And she marched off into the shadows.

   Rachel drew another figure with her stick--an ashy Antaeus dangling from his chains.

   "Annabeth's usually not like this," I told her. "I don't know what her problem is."

   Rachel raised her eyebrows. "Are you sure you don't know?"

   "What do you mean?"

   "Boys," she muttered. "Totally blind."

   "Hey, don't you get on my case, too! Look, I'm sorry I got you involved in this."

 
   "No, you were right," she said. "I can see the path. I can't explain it, but it's really clear."

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Now my question, ARE BOYS REALLY BLIND? Don't they literally recognize love? I kind of run behind hell lot of girls *Laughs, Tries to sound cool. Winks* I think, I know of people who love me. I never recognized my dad's love. Accepted. But a girls love? Don't we recognize?

Are women authors, under misconception that boys won't recognize? Is the concept a myth created by women authors? What is your opinion?? Don't forget to pray plz!!!

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