Carpe Diem : Put a Little Latin in Your Life

from jawalter

If you come into this book thinking you'll walk away with an accelerated sense of Latin, you'll be sorely disappointed. Mount spends a significant amount of time discussing the declension of words, without ever explaining (unless I managed to miss it) what that means or why the reader should be i...

from Sandydog1

Now this book was full of cupiditas. Its goal is to serve as a primer for the noobs, as well as serve as a review for the dwindling number of grown-up school children who had studied Latin. It's full of corny anecdotes and examples as well has some expected, mind-numbing grammar. The lazy (like m...

from vpfluke

This was a fun book to read. I took five years of Latin in high school, and I enjoyed delving back into the subject. Harry Mount's intention was presumably to bring people into the classics web, but there is a lot for the person who still retains some familiarity with Latin's declensions and conj...

from vpfluke

This was a fun book to read. I took five years of Latin in high school, and I enjoyed delving back into the subject. Harry Mount's intention was presumably to bring people into the classics web, but there is a lot for the person who still retains some familiarity with Latin's declensions and conj...