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Plato - The Republic and Colleen McCullough's Caesar.
logic behind my choices:
plato's republic
this is a book I read to fall asleep. It has not yet failed me. While I am an avid and quite fast reader (3-400pg novel in about a week and a half, 30 mins a day avg) I simply cannot stand to read this waste of paper. The characters are ludicrous, and plato seems to jump between first, second, and third person without warning. Dialogue uses unneccessarily long and obscure words. There are also no " marks (cant remember their names atm) anywhere in the book, making it very confusing to read if you havent previously put the book down at the end of a chapter.
Also, in order to understand most if not all of this book, it requires the reader to re-read almost every line of dialogue to make any sense of it.
The only people i would ever reccomend this book to are insomniacs.
I have been attempting to read this book off and on for about 2 years now, and i am only on page 21
Colleen McCullough's Caesar, a novel
This is THE slowest and most boring book i have ever attempted to read. Even slower than the republic. After reading the INCREDIBLY detailed descriptions of EVERYTHING [the cutlery, the materials used to construct the soldier's tents, the germanic people's matted, twisted hair (think unkempt dreads)] i find myself nowhere. Page 2. Now come the characters which i cannot care about, even the characters i am somewhat familiar with (brutus, marc antony, etc). Dear god. Unlike the Romans, this book marches to nowhere. slowly. every time i attempt to read this book i am fast asleep within half a page.
I was very interested in the Roman legacy and culture before attempting this book, but now i find myself not caring at all.
PLEASE, PLEASE do not buy, borrow, steal, or otherwise acquire and read these books, unless you are either a masochist or an insomniac.
and so ends my longwinded (ah, the irony) rant on the sheer amount of bollocks contained in the pages of these two tomes of trash. sorry for the long post.
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