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Aug. 10th, 2010 11:10 pmDay VII: A book that’s hard to read
What's this? a chance to complain about Thucydides?
Thucydides is very important. The Peloponnesian war is very interesting. The History of the Peloponnesian War is dull as ditch-water. No, that's unfair. 70% is uninteresting, because it consists of battle order and other things I couldn't follow in English. In Greek, people opened their mouths and it got harder. Unfortunately, those were the interesting bits. So it was a trade-off between interesting but grammatically overly complex and boring but readable.
In fact, it made such an impression on me (scarred me?) that here I am three months later, with memories of pain fresh in my head, even after I am done, and will hopefully never have to read him again. So yeah. Literally hard to read, and a book I can safely say that I am glad to be done with.
What's this? a chance to complain about Thucydides?
Thucydides is very important. The Peloponnesian war is very interesting. The History of the Peloponnesian War is dull as ditch-water. No, that's unfair. 70% is uninteresting, because it consists of battle order and other things I couldn't follow in English. In Greek, people opened their mouths and it got harder. Unfortunately, those were the interesting bits. So it was a trade-off between interesting but grammatically overly complex and boring but readable.
In fact, it made such an impression on me (scarred me?) that here I am three months later, with memories of pain fresh in my head, even after I am done, and will hopefully never have to read him again. So yeah. Literally hard to read, and a book I can safely say that I am glad to be done with.
