The Swerve discussion

I wanna check this out, does it live up to potential?




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I really enjoyed it. Lively and literate style.

I still want to know what those "17 sealed indictments" against the first Pope John XXIII were! Still sealed--he was The AntiPope for sure . . .

I enjoyed it very much. Heavy topic but not heavy reading.

I was so thrilled with it I passed it to my husband, who was so thrilled that he went and bought a copy of Lucretius. I think he has bogged down on it, but his plan is to read it in the original Latin.

It's a really interesting read. The author makes it into quite a historical epic, which I suppose the original story as it happened actually was. It's nice to read and imagine oneself back in the day.. searching for manuscripts in monastery libraries, etc..

Yes, it's sort of a real-life Umberto Eco novel.

Christian wrote: "I enjoyed it very much. Heavy topic but not heavy reading."

Couldn't have put it better myself!

I'd recommend this book to anyone. It has two great elements---first an understanding of how our current ideas about pleasure and pain developed, as well as a great mystery about searching for manuscripts and how greats books could be simply lost.