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I bought the hardcover edition at the local bookstore and was delighted to find out that it's signed.

Vastly better than Peter Green's execrable 2005 translation.

I was reminded of Catullus' poems when helping my kid with their Latin homework. What a revelation! I was far too young and naïve to really appreciate his work when I first read it.

Romantic, learned, whimsical and utterly filthy. A poster so devoted to the craft we still talk about him 2,000 years later.

This edition is surprisingly bowdlerised, given it's a relatively recent one, but that's Americans for you. Still, it places his poems in their proper context and they've been a delight to revisit.

Thoroughly enjoyable, and vastly better than I remembered from when I last read it 25 years ago. There were so many details I didn't recall. I somehow callowly missed all the obvious link the Canterbury Tales amidst the other literary allusions.

The world-building was exceptional, even if things like the world web now seem like a product of the era when it was written. To wit: the the writer and academic describe work conditions in several hundred years from now that seem firmly rooted in the past, let alone the present.

From memory the rest of the series declines in quality, but wow, this was good.

@oysta@mastodon.oysta.au Clearly I didn't either, until more recently!

Re-reading this for the first time in 20-25 years. I'm only a few chapters in but I'm already struck by what a dumbarse my young self was to not see the extensive borrowing from The Canterbury Tales.

Bought this via Kickstarter. The topic is relevant to my interests, but I wonder if it'll be readable!