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Olympos
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 36 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before 21st-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy, Hector, and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve.
And now all bets are off.
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- Jonathan Baker
- 29-07-21
Great Book, great performance
I loved Illium and Olympus both;
The books are fantastic and I enjoyed reading them previously myself.
This Audible version was even better, the narration was excellent. While other reviews had issues with the dry tone of the narrator I found it perfectly fitting the material and loved every minute of it.
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- Noah MsonReviews
- 23-08-18
Arrgh!
What score to give this epic? For me the action scenes are excellent; but elsewhere much irrelevant stuff ... some interesting, some educational but too much is just plain boring. Also my biggest gripe is with the ending. After so many book-hours of minute-by-minute descriptions the ending leaves much unresolved & often covers vast chunks of time with a single sentence - as though the author had got bored and just wanted to finish it. I really like DS's writing so will persevere with others of his books. P.S. Vocal performance was excellent!
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- Abdullmm
- 23-08-14
Intersting in a way
Would you try another book written by Dan Simmons or narrated by Kevin Pariseau?
I would try another book by Dan Simmons but not narrated by Kevin
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narrator made the book so boring as if he is reading to half wits. I had to speed up the narration to be able to enjoy the book.
Was Olympos worth the listening time?
It was worth the listening time even with the slow narration
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- Kai
- 28-11-16
Needs more editing
A good story but didn't cut out a lot of narrator mistake and retakes and instead just left them in.
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- P. Joseph
- 06-12-15
Incredible story. So multifaceted.
Incredible story, how Simmons manages to weave sci fi and the classics together I will never know. This and the first book Ilium are modern classics. A must for any sci fi or indeed classics fans also.
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- Sally
- 31-05-17
Pretty close to great
Very clever and imaginative story, intelligently tying together old and new stories with a unique narrative. I definitely recommend this title. The slight disappointments are where it left me with regards to key characters, hopefully this is because other books will tell continue those stories. Another was the inclusion of the Anti Semitic inferences, not sure what this added other than to apportion blame within a fiction unnecessarily; this story line just seemed a bit ham-fisted in an otherwise delightfully entertaining book.
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- Kindle Customer
- 14-06-23
A space opera like no other
This book managed to weave characters from history into an amazing story set across different planets. At each stage it kept you wanting to find out the fates of these characters and kept you hooked until the last page. Thoroughly recommend.
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- Alexandra Gervescu
- 06-09-22
Wonderful
I love the book when reading it years ago and I loke the audio book. Kept me company on my commute.
The narration is very good
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- Anonymous User
- 06-01-21
best novel ever.
dan simmons - best writer ever.
and this book is just fantastic - lovning it.
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- paul
- 02-04-24
finished only because I enjoyed 1st book
illium was very enjoyable but I was hoping for more from this title. no doubt you'll find yourself in same position coming from first book and you'll want to finish.
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