What book are you reading?

[Slekomania]

We who are about to die (of sheer and utter boredom) salute you.

I admit it's a rather difficult, if not tedious read. Took me over a month to read it, so it's certainly not something you can just pick up and finish in one sitting. Based on your thread, it appears the translation you're reading isn't the very best. It seems to have very high understandability, but the poetic merit seems to be completely absent. Although reading the Iliad in poetic meter adds another layer of difficulity, I feel like it creates so much colour that it eventually pays off. It might just take a while to start understanding the text. It took me around 20-40 pages (and using a prosaic translation for the first few chapters) until I could read it 'fluently'. Once I started to get the hang of it, it became very understandable and overall I had no issue reading it.

Reading the Iliad was worth it. It feels good to understand Achilles and Troy as more than just cliched similes.

[Bombadil]

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa - not a book I'd normally read but a perfectly acceptable way to spend a day.

Oh, I’m also reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer for English class.

I actually really like the film, it has a quite different feel to the book and a great soundtrack.

[The Macabees]

Cornelius Nepos, On Great Generals. On Historians.

[Barboneia]

Oh, I’m also reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer for English class.

I actually really like the film, it has a quite different feel to the book and a great soundtrack.

We’re watching the film while in class, too, I quite like it.

[Divitiae ex Animo]

A Love Song, a Death Rattle, a Battle Cry - Guante
and
Practical Demonkeeping - Christopher Moore
Highly recommend both!

[Pax Nerdvana]

I just finished Isaac Asimov's Foundation's Edge.

[Coccygia]

"The Frumious Bandersnatch" - an 87th Precinct mystery by Ed McBain. (Not as much fun as I would've hoped from the title.)

[Crazy Waters]

Dinosaurs love cheese.

[Pax Nerdvana]

I just started Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.

[Platypus Bureaucracy]

Last episode of Ulysses is rubbing me the wrong way. And it was going so well.

[The Macabees]

Cornelius Nepos, On Great Generals. On Historians.

While not the most historically accurate -- which was not always the intent of the author, as opposed to style --, it was a fun and easy ready.

While still reading Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth, since that huge tome won't fit on my elliptical I am now reading States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities by David Stasavage.

[Elwher]

A. Bertram Chandler - The Road to the Rim

[Pax Nerdvana]

I'm rereading Red Planet by Robert Heinlein.

[Pan-Asiatic States]

The Sakdalistas' Struggle For Philippine Independence: 1930-1945

[UniversalCommons]

The Map of Knowledge A Thousand Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found by Violet Moller. It should be out in May of 2019.

[Gogol Transcendancy]

Just finished The Crying Of Lot 49.

[Northern Jackaia]

The Worldwar tetralogy by Harry Turtledove.

I just finished the Hot War series and I was planning to start that next

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Re-reading “The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls”, by Emilie Autumn. The weather looks kinda gloomy, wet Victorian England for it.

[Snow Bird-Worldism Crash]

A. Bertram Chandler - The Road to the Rim

my dad got me into those stories

essays and Aphorisms (1851) by arthur schopenhauer

[Hanafuridake]

Selected Writings of Nichiren

[Conoga]

Paper Girls, Volume 2

[Woods Is Back]

Just finished reading the three books of The Chronicle Of The Dark Star for the second time. Amazing series and recommend it to anyone who likes Sci-Fi.

[Autonomous Cleaner Bot Cleaners]

Future Politics by Jamie Susskind.

[Flaireis]

Henry David Thoreau's essays Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle.

[Saint Arsenio]

"Warriors Don't Cry" by Melba Patillo Beals. It's a book about the Little Rock Nine, and the Civil Rights Era. Highly Recommended.