ZORBA THE GREEK

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Summary: The passion for life is ageless
Review: Zorba the greek is a novel that has inspired me since I was a child. Alexis is a man that has this atomic reactor in his body that he cannot control. The coal mine owner, his boss, starts to realize little by little what Zorba is all about. Despite that his worker is not educated he learns a lot about life from him. This kind of novel is the one you do not forget and in my case is present for many situations. Zorba is never let down by failure or tragedy, take your shoes off and dance to the rhytm of life !!

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Summary: Excellent Character Study of a Living Man
Review: Zorba is great simply because the narrator, who vascillates in constant indecision is a great foil for Zorba, who at nearly 60 lives at 100 miles per hour. Brilliant Book for anyone stuck in one of life's ruts.

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Summary: The passion and pain of life in Zorba's tale.
Review: I celebrate the passionate character of Zorba and the full, rich life he leads. I also feel the great pain Kazantzakis is showing us through the tragic characters of Bouboulina and the widow. The second time I read Zorba the Greek, I was living in a Greek village maybe in many ways the same as those in Kazantzakis' story. In Zorba the Greek, Kazantzakis presents us with timeless issues that interfere in relationships between men and women.

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Summary: endearing character, lilting prose, eternal questions
Review: Zorba is perhaps the most memorable of characters. His ethos and pathos speak to each of us. He is ebullient, passionate, bruttish and fragile. He is alive with the questions of humanity and the pathos of Greek heroism. It is sad to finish the novel. Comforting to find him waiting in its pages.

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Summary: The "Biggest" book ever
Review: The author has captured all of us into his character.Not what we are, but what we might and should be. I was 17 when i read it first, and i can say it created me as a character - the person i'm today. I love Zorbas for what he taught me then, and still today, most of my actions in life are seen through his eyes.I never go ahead without asking myself: "what will Zorbas do now?". Everybody must read this book.

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Summary: Modern spirituality at its finest.
Review: Perhaps the finest spiritual book in print, Kazantzakis' _Zorba_the_Greek_ simultaneously praises the spirit and the body, affirming human existence like no other tale around. Alexis Zorba is a hero the likes of which haven't been seen since Odysseus or Sinbad the Sailor. He combines gruff physicality with love of life without falling into the selfish hedonism one might expect. Zorba is indulgent, but never in such a way that his character is destroyed. Zorba incarnates the soul, both for himself and for the reader. The "Zorbatic" theology provides for the world a God and a belief in that God that refuses to deny life, never turning against what it is to live.

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Summary: See the film .... but ALSO: read the book !
Review: Definitely one of the few books that give you the feeling that life is just worth living. Once you realize what is 'ultimate catastrophe' or 'the one unforgivable sin', you will see life differently. If you have seen the film and listened to the music, go forward and read the book

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Summary: Meet this man, and your life will never be the same.
Review: When I finished reading this book, I had a new friend. He is from Greece. His name is Alexis Zorba. He teaches me lots of things. Man is free, he says. Life is passion, he preaches. Our friendship, though he is a fictitious character, is as strong as any other I have in real life. When difficulties appear, I run to him for advice. And we always end up smiling and dancing on a quiet beach

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Summary: A must for any library! A real modern classic!
Review: This is a marvelous story of a friendship between two extremely different men. Each has his way of living life. Zorba is the ultimate hedonist while "BOSS" is the repressed recluse. The book, unlike the movie, ultimately leaves the decision of the best lifestyle for the reader, to the reader himself. One finishes the novel with a myriad of thoughts. Mostly he will ask,"Am I denying myself too much for the sake of propriety?" Kazantzakis writes in a simple yet rich descriptive style. A real jewel.

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Summary: A cure and a guide for our dis-oriented soul
Review: For a world that is dominated by materialistic goods and where hearts of people have green colour it is the book that will make us think. How can it be that an illiterate person has reached the meaning of life more than an educated one? How a disaster, at the end, and a lost of money, can cause laughs to the English man because it actually meant the recovery of his soul? How can a dance under the sun or the stars cure peoples' souls and bring serenity in their minds? If you care for your soul if you want answers to the above questions, that may look absurd now, this is the right book to read.