Colin's review
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
by Stuart Kelly
Colin's review
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read by Stuart Kelly
Colin's review
rating:
bookshelves:
great-literature,
great-poetry,
philosophy,
scholarly-works
A fascinating book I've been reading in chapters for almost 2 years now (I have the receipt - I got it 4/21/06, which also happens to be the anniverary of the founding of Rome, at Borders in Kingston, MA, not long before I moved back to RI). A book about many other books - books we know were written but have been lost, or books that authors planned and never wrote. My favorite chapters are the earlier ones - Homer, Sappho, Aeschylus, Euripides, etc. By the time one is halfway through the book one reaches moderns like Shakespeare and Milton, and, much as I love those particular authors, I lose a great portion of my interest.