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It should be fairly obvious that I have already finished reading the book at the time of the post. If I hadn’t I wouldn’t be wasting my time writing a blog post. I started reading The Prince about everyday in AC in April, a few months after it was assigned. I realized that in order to start this massive project I would probably have to read the book. The Prince is both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing because it was just over one hundred pages, a curse because it is written in sixteenth century language, which is god-awful to read. It is said that a picture is worth one thousand words so I felt it would be appropriate to include a picture to best illustrate my thoughts and emotions while reading this book.

Needless to say Machiavelli’s work was not the most interesting of reading material. However, I was pleased that Machiavelli rarely used literary techniques (not suprising for a non-fiction political treatise). Why is this a good thing one might ask. Well, it is very easy to find passages to annotate when there are only about two metaphors and five allusions in the whole book. It becomes very, very easy to decide what to annotate.

While reading I also noticed some similarites to other works that I have heard of, one of which was Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes. The full text of his work can be found here. While I do find this book to be one of the more boring books I have read, Machiavelli has some extremely excellent points which I agree with most of the time. The most important ones I have included in my project so you can read them there.