Max Rose’s Reviews > The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin > Status Update

This book is killing me it’s so slow

Getting pretty boring

Franklin did everything. He learned French, Italian, and Spanish, and started a fire department and a militia all while carrying on a thriving newspaper. What a guy.

Franklin creates his own religion. He profoundly (And rightly) observes that the virtues are joyful, rewarding (if difficult) endeavors in themselves, not simply commands to be followed. Sadly he, like so many others who are interested in morality, never seems to wrestle with the question: “but what about Jesus?”.

Last 40 pages were excellent.