Ha no shaming. All good! I did have to read "Homer's The Odyssey" over a summer break one year for school. Does that count!
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Ha no shaming. All good! I did have to read "Homer's The Odyssey" over a summer break one year for school. Does that count!
Ha no shaming. All good! I did have to read "Homer's The Odyssey" over a summer break one year for school. Does that count!
Ah, but just think of how impressed people will be in later years when you casually drop a knowing reference to "Homer's - The Odyssey" into casual conversation.
Been re-reading "Imperium" by Ryszard Kapuscinsky today.
And I have lined up "Travels With Herodotus" by the same author, to re-read next.
And I have lined up "Travels With Herodotus" by the same author, to re-read next.
Ha no shaming. All good! I did have to read "Homer's The Odyssey" over a summer break one year for school. Does that count!
Big deal. I had to read The Illiad in Latin.
And has it left you with a love of - and an appreciation for - the Latin language?
Big deal. I had to write it.
Big deal, I had to invent Algore so he could invent the internet.
As atonement for that remark, I offer you today's nice thing to read, not a book, just a blip about Vermeer.
https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...rtist-who-taught-world-to-see-ordinary-beauty
Thanks for the link. Too bad I can't make it to the exhibit.
Let me guess under water and backwords?
The times of the quarrels of Achilles and Agamemnon were dangerous. @ucfgrad93 coded a robot to read the tale in case the words leapt from the page. Heroic algorithms were thus created, saving many of us from tragic fates.
Not really. It wasn't a class where we learned to speak it. I just took in high school so I wouldn't have to take it in college.
Semper ubi, sub ubi.
Well,,,, someone had to go there. We should quit before we wasteland one of the really good threads on MacRumors LOL. Mea culpa, at least in part.
Back to the book I'm actually reading, which is a bio of Gerald Ford of all people.
Fair enough.
Have re-read "Imperium" in its entirety; it is years since I read it - I bought it and read it absolutely absorbed, utterly riveted, when it was published in the mid 1990s.
Since I read it, life circumstances (and choices) have conspired to enable me to visit a great many of the places he wrote about; it is fascinating to return to a book you had loved having a better knowledge of - and understanding of - what is being written about.
@LizKat, consider it strongly recommended; I have hugely enjoyed re-visiting it.
For Latin lovers, and for anyone interested in a spot of Roman history, try to take a look at Tom Holland's brilliant "Rubicon" and Mary Beard's superb "SPQR".
Just downloaded samples of both on my Kindle. Thanks.
Actually, I really like both of those books; the history is meticulous, very well - and intelligently - argued, with an excellent grasp of solid sources and both are beautifully and engagingly written by individuals passionate about their subject and keen to share their enthusiasm with the world at large.
Hope you enjoy them.
I just started The Magicians, so far it's reading well, but seems substantially different than the show regarding Julia, but I'm not far into the book. I may start a discussion in The Magicians thread about this.
Please tell me the book is not the utter crap the TV show is.
I keep watching, hoping that it will start to a) make any sense b) not have clueless characters and c) not have a main character who is such a worthless being.
Or, is it the same?
Well after all the talking about 1984, I am now officially reading it. Just started it last night.
Highly recommended, and would recommend "Animal Farm" very strongly as well.