Dinner With Persephone

Rating:
Summary: well-written & perceptive work
Review: Unfair at times, but interestingly so. An excellent travelogue by one who knows Greek and saw the Greeks perceptively (albeit and as expected, from her own sense of enculturation). Storace is a consumate poet & illustrates it here.

Rating:
Summary: Waste of Time
Review: What a horrible book. It seems that the writer has
traveled little and her views are provincial at best...
Don't bother!!!


Rating:
Summary: Believe half of what you see, and none of what Storace wrote
Review: What an intriguing name, and what a huge disappointment this book actually was! Having lived in Greece for over 10 years, I would not presume to know how "the Greeks" think or live - and she has the audacity to think she understands this country and its people after "living" less than a year in Athens? Her trite comments based on surface meetings, conclusions drawn from heresay, negative views of "little" non-Americans, and incorrect specifics on the history of Greece make this the most absurd book I have ever read. Shame on Patricia Storace, Shame! I would be very interested to know who funded her stay and this book!!