So far, Paradise Lost has gripped my attention. While I find it hard to understand in many areas, due to the way it was written, I am enjoying reading the beginning before the beginning. The first three books tell of the fall of Lucifer and this legions of angels to Hell and the prophecy of Jesus Christ coming to Earth to save Man from Sin. While this is a tale that has been told of millennia, John Milton gave us a different interpretation of how everything came to be.
This way of Milton has written this story reminds me of any number of different fantasy tales we know today, like Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and so on. Thinking of this grand history in those terms, and reading it on the pages before me, is good fun indeed. Reading as this fallen warrior and his legions seek vengeance against their former king for casting them out, and meeting beings whom are the personifications of things as ancient as God himself, such as Night and the realm of Chaos, and then watching the kind and honorable Prince give himself willingly to death to save his people is a classic tale, beloved by millions of readers and has been told time and time again because it is so loved. As one of those readers, I am looking forward to diving deeper into this story.
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