Hypatia [Paperback]

Khan Amore (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2001

A suicide takes a detour through time, sendina a melancholy present-day cynic to ancient Alexandria to learn the secrets of life and happiness from history's greatest woman - the last, most brillian defender of life-loving shameless pagan Greek culture.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 656 pages
• Publisher: 1st Book Library (July 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0759622159
• ISBN-13: 978-0759622159
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,924,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful, literate, shockingly frank page-turner, September 19, 2001

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Arthur Man (Tacoma, Wa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hypatia (Paperback)

Violent religious bigotry takes it on the chin in this compelling historical science-fiction rendition of the story of the beautiful and brilliant Alexandrian Greek who some have called history's greatest woman. Past, present,and future collide in this lusty yet literate love story. True to life, all that's best in life appears side-by-side in this story with all that's worst, all told with brutal honesty. Khan Amore's lovingly-presented novel, Hypatia, is intimate, even scintillating, but its refusal to condemn permissive pre-Christian morals makes it such an iconoclastic statement in these repressive times that you may feel safer reading it in private. If you are someone who is capable of considering views that are out of keeping with currently-fashionable dogma, and prefer to take your truths uncut and without a sugar-coating, you'll be captivated, fortified, and maybe even uplifted by this book, although, no doubt, there are some that will be traumatized by the many secrets blithely told. If anyone has ever written a book like this before, I've certainly never come across it. A powerful, literate, shockingly frank page-turner.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars INCREDIBLE!, March 25, 2007

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L. Shaffer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hypatia (Paperback)

WOW! This novel is a work of artistic and intellectual achievement. Kudos to the author for unveiling the truths and setting our historical past in a more realistic context than the one we learned in school.

I have recently become aware of Hypatia and also wondered (as did Nikolai) why I had never heard of her. Makes me wonder how many other great women of the past are discarded to the winds of time, via "the victors who write history". I feel this novel has opened up spaces in my mind to allow some de-programming of our culture.

As more and more people wake up to the truths of the lies we've been taught, then our collective conscious can awaken to a new form of society, one based on love, kindness and intellectual seeking truth--what Hypatia taught the world.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Time, May 11, 2010

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James McCarron "euklides" (Waterloo, ON, CANADA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hypatia (Paperback)

Khan Amore's "Hypatia" is, in many ways, a rather tragic book. It represents a stunning failure of the publishing industry. This book gets my vote for the worst book ever published. Superficially, the book may be classified as a sci-fi historical novel. It is an historical novel because it is set, mainly, in fifth century Alexandria and its environs. It is science fiction because it involves time travel. However, the book consists, almost entirely, of a sequence of lengthy and detailed paedophile fantasies. These are interspersed by equally lengthy diatribes bemoaning, in the same tired, old ways, the evils of Christianity and, to a lesser degree, religion in general. Don't waste your time.