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hjswinford's review
4.0
Hard to get into at first, but once I caught on, I found the wit and Socratic dialogue laugh-out-loud good and completely awesome. I wish I was good at making conversation/teaching in this fashion because it rocks.
katgman's review against another edition
challenging
slow-paced
2.0
So hard to read! Influence on Christian thought quite obvious. A short synopsis would have done.
fairchildone's review
4.0
Reading this is like watching a movie full of pop culture references for the first time, only instead, it's full of philosophy and rhetorical references.
xandrathewitch's review against another edition
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
pythonesque's review against another edition
emotional
slow-paced
3.0
Finished at 61%. The Apology was captivating, Phaedo filled with so much nonsense that I don't want to finish to listen to it right now.
offboss's review
4.0
Surprised by how well it's translated, none of the janky language I've found in a lot of older works. Everything here (in terms of ideas, not prose) is very readable and worthwhile.
sydneyqamar's review
3.0
For those who like or dislike philosophy, this book is a good choice. Though, of course, Socrates has several tangents concerning pity and the good life, among other subjects, Plato's Trial and Death is also a story of a pensive man's journey through trial, jail, and ultimately death.
gardenofadonis's review
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
when i read this at first, i was about 13yo and obviously didn't understand what the hell was going on but listening to it again, on the commute to uni, made me regret not doing it earlier... there's something so bittersweet about the ending, where a character as righteous and full of knowledge as Socrates, doesn't break down on the face of death and stands for what he believes in. a big part of me not understanding this book when i was younger stemmed from the confusion that his rhetoric has at a first glance, and being somewhat familiar with it now from The Republic helped with that. all in all, while Socrates can be criticized by his lack of "passion" when it comes to speach, the terms in which he exposes his flux of arguments is so natural and concrete that it's hardly easy to deconstruct and find flaws in. i really like this piece, and listening to it in audiobook format for sure helped me feel it in a stronger way. ill have to get into the other Platian scripts tho.