Zorba the Greek

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Summary: reflexiones importantes
Review: un libro lleno de importantes reflexiones, de una busqueda de la verdad, que debe ensenarnos que dios o lo espiritual no esta solamente en aquellos que buscan la verdad a tarves del ascetismo, sino tambien en gente como zorba, con sus apetitos mundanos y su vision de la tierra y del mundo tan diferente del otro. en realidad ambos son complementos, caras de una misma moneda que es la vida, y ambos demuestran que se puede llegar a la verdad por diferentes caminos. este libro ademas ensena un poco de filosofia budista, voy a ver si encuentro una version en espanol para una amiga budista, que desde que entro ha encontrado paz y tranquilidad la paz de ese minero que aun no ha encontrado a su zorba.... LUIS MENDEZ [e-mail]

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Summary: Wonderful
Review: Usually I find annoying books that don't have plots, and are incidental events one after the other, claimed as masterpieces. Well, this book is just a bunch of events that coalesce vaguely into a narrative arc...and it's a masterpiece. The prose writing if first-rate, and the contrast between Zorba and the narrator's characters is striking. I wish I had the passion of Zorba...but alas, I'm sitting here in front of the computer instead of seducing beautiful women!

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Summary: A great book
Review: Well I read this book because i`ve seen the movie and it seemed interesting...it`s a great book and i really enjoyed it...

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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: magnificent omnipotence
Review: words eat up the page
eat some Zorba
your belly feels full of wine and song

if this book were a taste it would be cinnamon
if this book were a melon it would be water
if this book were a critical theorist it would be Derrida
if this book were a body part it would be both feet
if this book were a day of the year it would be Thanksgiving

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Summary: Life - !!
Review: You have to read this book..it will really change your life. It will make you see things on a different way , on the way of zorba . The meaning of life in a small book , of the Greek Genius Nikos Kazantzakis

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Summary: A life worth living
Review: Zorba is a wonderful teacher. His lessons revolve around the appreciation of all things basic and good, the pleasures of simplicity, and falling in love with life. Great book to read if you feel that your life is in a rut and you want to reconnect with the world around you.

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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: 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 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 !!