![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/fugue21/magnifier-left.png)
![The Ameriad: The Untold Founding of America…](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/148401135X.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... The Ameriad: The Untold Founding of America by the Survivors of Troy (edición 2013)por Duane Gundrum
Información de la obraThe Ameriad: The Untold Founding of America by the Survivors of Troy por Duane Gundrum
Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita para Sorteo de miembros LibraryThing. An interesting historical speculative fiction idea - the author acts as "translator" of an old manuscript in which a survivor of Troy undergoes a journey and finds a new land. Unfortunately, not well developed. Particularly off-key is the voice the author uses, with wry asides and modern slang. Here's an example: "Oh, Muse, please tell of the travels of this man, this man who was unlike any other man, but was still a man, or at least he should have been a man, even though he was not like the others, so that his story should be told, or something like that." Yikes. Add that to "head honcho", "supermarket recycling center" and multiple other current usage expressions, and you have tough slogging...every instance throws the reader right back out of the story. Interestingly, I think the author actually knows quite a bit about Troy and related historical matters - I'd encourage a rewrite in which he weeds all the slang out...that would be a worthwhile read - but this particular iteration isn't working for me. Esta reseña ha sido escrita para Sorteo de miembros LibraryThing. I received a review copy of The Ameriad: The Untold Founding of America By the Survivors of Troy by Duane Gundrum through Librarything.com. I am not a fan of humor based on puns and silly names and I quit reading at about 30%. I recommend that you read a sample before buying. Esta reseña ha sido escrita para Sorteo de miembros LibraryThing. I was given this book in exchange for an honest review.If you love satirical writing then you don't want to pass this up. I found this to be an easy and enjoyable read. I did enjoy the storyline and was engrossed in the book until the end. Would definitely recommend this book to friends and anyone who enjoys satires and/or mythology. Esta reseña ha sido escrita para Sorteo de miembros LibraryThing. Funny! Not what I was expecting but still good! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The Greeks had their Iliad and Odyssey, the Romans had their Aeneid, and the British had their Britannia and those continuously changing King Arthur stories, starring wannabe Shakespearean actors slumming it until something better came along. But America got nothing. Until now. Finally, an epic has emerged, from the lost annals of time (whatever that means...just go with it...it sounds scholarly), that tells the true story of America's foundation.The Ameriad tells the story of the Trojan warrior Amereaus, who has been chosen by the gods to found a new land somewhere across the Great Sea (capitalized because it's that great a sea). Running away from his domineering wife Democrita, Amereaus travails the many forgotten lands of yesterday to battle new gods and new evils (because the old ones were boring), leading to a new land previously occupied by other people until Amereaus kicks them out. For the glory of a new land that will one day be called Amereausland (placeholder until a better name comes along).So join Amereaus, his much smarter assistant Lyddius, and a cast of many others (because it's a novel and just having two characters would have been really boring), including a translator of the epic who really should have never quit his day job but just so happened to be in the right place at the right time to become the greatest translator of all time (Editor's Note: Please do not let this guy write any more of his own back copy!). No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNinguno
![]() ValoraciónPromedio:![]()
|
Overall, a fun, quick read and one I can recommend to anyone who with a basic understanding of Greek mythology and happens to likes their comedy to be of the Monty Python / Mel Brooks style or for readers of Marie Phillips’ Gods Behaving Badly]. (