This was exceedingly dull, and also exceedingly disappointing, because this looked like historical fiction that was quite different from the rest. I’d thought this would be about Aristotle and Alexander the Great, and well, hahaha no. Lyon’s prose is modernly vulgar. Words like “chic” and “creepy” and an extreme repetition of “fuck” was ridiculous. I’ve honestly never seen fuck used so many times in 74 pages. Completely unnecessary. And between the vulgarity and anachronistic language, there was absolute nothing. Aristotle’s narration was dry and uninteresting and sometimes unintelligible. There is definitely better historical fiction out there. Thesis: Ancient Greece was a great civilization because it had a maternal intellectual named Aristotle who cried easily, but didn't know how to use profanity with any degree of fluency. (He also helped inspire method acting.)Antithesis: Anceint Greece fell becuase of bratty soldiers like Alexander who suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome and liked to play with dead things. Suprisingly none of the soliders appear to use profanity fluently either. (Alexander had a more direct influence on the development of method acting.)Sythesis: The thinkers produced some interesting ideas and the soldiers did get to travel the world and experience some new and interesting cultures, so everything was okay in the end, except that none of them were able to master the art of profanity.
What do You think about The Golden Mean (2009)?
historicly not correct with language. disappointing with other facts. a little vulgar for my taste.
—Rose28497
Want to read this...my cousins wife wrote it and won a whole bunch awards for it here in Canada.
—chinadoll1217
Great historical read! Explaining Aristotle on his childhood too adulthood.
—katq
The men who shaped the ancient world... who were they really?
—Tay
