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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Epic like any good foundation story and Rome's foundation is no exception. I knew the facts of the legendary tale : Aeneas, Remus, Romulus but I had little knowledge about the whole Royal period. I knew some of the names, some of the legends (I'm thinking of the Horace and Curates here of which Corneille wrote a pretty good play that I intend to reread soon). The translation is good, the style flows nicely and the narration is not dragging the reader down. This was written thousand of years ago and it's still interesting, fresh and compelling.
Whoo-hoo! This was my yearlong read, and I finished before the year was over. I was surprised I enjoyed it as much as I did, esp since so much of it was about the wars. There were parts that were boring, but most of it kept my attention well. I was disappointed that the end consisted of so many lost books, as that was the time period I was most interested in when I started the book.