"By today's standards, a bog-standard blog.
The only reason that this was preserved in the first place is that the author happened to be a Roman emperor. (That, and that ancient Rome didn't have LiveJournal.)"
"I read this because the author was referenced in an episode of 'Law and Order: Criminal Intent.'"
"This book fell into the category of useless books that told me nothing I didn't already know."
"There are several hundred meditations here, but I wonder whether Marcus Aurelius had late-stage Alzheimer's or something, because actually there are only about 8 different thoughts, which are repeated in one form or another ad nauseum. And even among those, a couple are of no use to an atheist, and a couple more are of no use to someone living in the present day (it might have made sense to talk about focusing on the work one was intended for way back in AD 15th of April, or whatever, when everyone was either an emperor or a scholar or a craftsman of some kind, but in today's world of office jobs and menial labour the idea doesn't really appeal)."
"i found this book heavily laden with the author's guidance and advice on life and a difficult book to read as a novel."
MY MATHEMATICS TEXTBOOK IS FILLED WITH ALL SORTS OF NUMBERS AND PRINCIPLES THAT REALLY GET IN THE WAY OF THE NOVEL
I'M FINDING THIS CAR VERY DIFFICULT TO DRIVE AS A NOVEL
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