Finally finally finally finished Machiavelli's "The Prince" and man, that thing was dry as dirt. Two things that interested me: 1) so little has changed, politically, that this book is still relevant if you read 'prince' as 'president' and 2) he mentions Marcus Aurelius and Commodus ("Gladiator") ... apparently Commodus really was like that. So, with that, I gleefully crossed it off my list and dumped the pdf into the recycling bin. :)
I'm about halfway through "The Idiot" and it's HILARIOUS. More on this later.
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