Rating: 2/10
Gilgamesh is a fictional myth to begin with, so I was already skeptical about this book from the start. It isn't very well written, I don't think, although there is some semblance of a moral to it.
The plot is about King Gilgamesh, and how he didn't have any friends and mistreated people as a result. The gods created another being name Enkidu, who lived in forest and looked like an animal, but was friends with all the animals. Gilgamesh sent a woman named Shamhat to Enkidu to draw him out to the city so he could kill him. Enkidu and Shamhat fall in love, and Enkido goes to fight Gilgamesh anyway.
Once there, they are evenly matched, until Gilgamesh slips and falls of the top of the wall they are fighting on, and Enkidu saves him as he is going over. Then, they become friends and live happily ever after.
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