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A review by blairconrad
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
3.0
Ultimately disappointing. Not because it's a bad book, but because it's billed as a fantastic book. I'm sure Ms. Lyons did a tremendous amount of research, but that doesn't affect the reader directly, so we have to judge what we read.
The book is good, but slightly uneven. There are sections in which we get insight into (Ms. Lyon's interpretation of) Aristotle's mind, and at first these are interesting. Likewise, nearly all of the lessons that Aristotle gives Alexander, but that's about it. The rest of the book falls a little flat - sort of boring interactions between Aristotle's contemporaries.
The prose is adequate - not terribly good, but not awful, except the profanity. I've seen others complain about the anachronism, but once we have the characters speaking English (well, written in English), I don't think modern profanity is a problem with the consistency of the book - I just don't care for it.
The book is good, but slightly uneven. There are sections in which we get insight into (Ms. Lyon's interpretation of) Aristotle's mind, and at first these are interesting. Likewise, nearly all of the lessons that Aristotle gives Alexander, but that's about it. The rest of the book falls a little flat - sort of boring interactions between Aristotle's contemporaries.
The prose is adequate - not terribly good, but not awful, except the profanity. I've seen others complain about the anachronism, but once we have the characters speaking English (well, written in English), I don't think modern profanity is a problem with the consistency of the book - I just don't care for it.