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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
fast-paced
adventurous
informative
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
I read this in college and thought it was kinda boring. I read it this time as a challenge, an Asian/eastern historical fiction. This time, about half of it was still boring but the latter half, I had gotten into the story, the history, the tablets themselves and the language. It has a rhythmic quality of repetition I don't know if I could've appreciated at 19-20 and I'm only barely beginning to appreciate now, 20y on. I think I'd revisit Gilgamesh in another decade to see if I appreciate it anymore. It's a really interesting peek into the cradle of civilization that predates biblical stories and the fact any of it survived and makes any kind of sense to us, millenia later, is amazing.
Translation was BORING. If I was more of an academic that would be fine. We will try again soon, this time with a better translation.