I'm procrastinating by reading someone's copy of Time that was left in the Blackstone computer lab. There's an article about Robert Byrd, which included the line "When John Kennedy Jr. asked Byrd to list his summer reading for his magazine George, Byrd included such page turners as The Lives of the Twelve Caesars." This is Suetionius' collection of biographies of the first twelve emperors of Rome, starting with Julius Caesar. It's fascinating shit, really. Suetonius digs up all the dirt on these guys, and if he doesn't have any dirt, he makes it up. This book is the source for a lot of what we know about Roman emperors. Tiberius' sexual proclivities, Nero and Caligula's cruelty, Claudius' incompetence are all in here. I'm really not sure why Time implies it's boring. It's really not,