![]() ![]() Overall, this actually is an interesting book, smack dab with everything one might want to know when one just start reading into ancient Rome, unfortunately for me, it felt more like reading a textbook (nothing bad, I’m just not keen on reading something that felt like a textbook now that I’m 32). Granted that Mary Beard is a scholar and have been writing many books about ancient Rome, but I really can’t be bothered to read a very thick book (and this book is very thick) that’s very dry and with small fonts too. ![]() It almost felt like I’m either reading a textbook or a scientific paper. After about 20 pages or so, it became clear to me that the language was a bit too dry for my taste. Here’s the thing with reading non fictions sometimes it’s enjoyable if when you read one, it feels like you’re being narrated by someone, and to an extent I do feel like I’m in a class about ancient Rome when I read the first few pages of this book. Nevertheless, I plan to pick this book up sometime in the future (though not so near, as I genuinely find this book too dry for my test, and besides the book has gone inside my cargo box, ready to be shipped back to Indonesia). ![]() ![]() I was having difficulties with reading at the end of 2019, and it wasn’t until I started reading non fictions that I start pulling myself out of a reading slump, and I was really excited about reading this book, so to not actually finished it, I really want to chastise myself for it. This is genuinely my first DNF book of 2020, which I’m a bit bummed about. ![]()
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