Review: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Ok this was an excellent start to this year (ok I started the book last year).

I know the movie 300 already exists, but while reading this I couldn't help wishing they'd make a movie based on this book. It would delve so much deeper into Spartan psyche and life and be so much less of a caricature.

Plus I am amazed since I read "Do the Work" years ago and it was one of my favorite business books. Yet for some reason I figured this precluded this historical fiction from being any good. But obviously this was the original work, and it was asbolutely worth reading.


First review of the year, first 5-star-rating. Let's hope that's a good omen.


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