Rating: 
Summary: Excellent book to appreciate life fully
Review: Life must be lived with some folly, but reason will always prevent us from being completely free. The important things in life are simple: wine, food, dance, women and we should stay simple. This book is a wake up call for people that are too much into a life that is just work work work: there is more out there and we need to start enjoying it.
Rating: 
Summary: A big disappointment
Review: In preparing for a trip to Greece, I decided to read some novels
of Greek origin. I think perhaps this book is too dated to
get the feel of present day Greece, at least for those areas where I will be going, but that was not the big problem. The book is about a self-absorbed lecherous hedonist (am I being redundant here?) that for the most part is utterly boring. One of Zorba's oft repeated ideas is that, while he didn't believe in God, if such an entity did exist the only reason why he would condemn a man to hell was if the man did not bed all the women
who wanted bedding. And of course, there was the assumption (repeated ad nauseum) that woman's primary source of joy and
solace is to be bedded. I don't know about God, but this woman would be more likely to condemn a man to hell if he didn't help out around the house. Self-proclaimed "God's gifts to women" are nearly as boring in literature as they are in real life. The advantage of
the literary type is that you can get rid of them in a moment's notice by just closing the book.The reason for the 2nd star is for the fact that the author does
have some literary talent.
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