false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170678299m/67697.jpg 67697 8 Written with her usual vigor and imagination...Mary Renault has a great talent.<i>The New York Times Book Review<br></i>Alexander's beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, while Aristotle's tutoring provoked his mind and Homer's <i>Iliad</i> fueled his aspirations. Killing his first man in battle at the age of twelve, he became regent at sixteen and commander of Macedon's cavalry at eighteen, so that by the time his father was murdered, Alexander's skills had grown to match his fiery ambition. 1822595 book 1969 Fire from Heaven total:438|5:149|4:187|3:79|2:19|1:4| 438 1772 633 39 4 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 07 15:55:52 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 16:18:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 19:46:48 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 00:58:58 -0700 2009
What I did like was how Renault constructed the relations...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 17:54:25 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 17:57:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 08:56:50 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 09:05:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 09 10:25:53 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 10:25:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 01:52:41 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 14:45:45 -0700 2009
1) I find the writing style confusing. It shifts from POV to POV, but it does so rather sudden. A bit too sudden for my taste.

2) Too much history just being told. I'm certainly not an expert when it comes to history and ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1969 Thu Jun 05 09:24:43 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 11:27:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Nov 17 21:10:44 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 21:13:36 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Jul 09 07:23:10 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 07:24:22 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jun 20 08:58:43 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 08:59:40 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 27 08:46:07 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 08:49:05 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 10:06:49 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 14:13:07 -0700 2007 The Persian Boy. However, in this one I got a little more mired in the politics. I wasn't always exactly sure who was acting, and why, or who was upset, and why, and ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 08:57:07 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 00:44:41 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Mar 28 05:02:15 -0700 2007 Wed Mar 28 08:52:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Fri Oct 30 06:48:21 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 02:28:28 -0800 2009 1 5 0 false false Sat Jul 07 09:07:36 -0700 2007 Tue May 26 11:40:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 08:13:07 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 23 10:21:44 -0800 2009
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