Un-meditative

I found Aurelius' Meditations boring.  I'm glad that he was so reflective, but his observations on life just didn't appeal to me.  I guess I'm as bad as any other American in my inability to appreciate a philosopher-king.

New Book: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

My next book will be Meditations by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.  Apparently it's a bunch of thoughts that he wrote down over two decades, rather than a unified treatise.  It's also said to be a work of Stoic philosophy.  I know very little about this.  Nonetheless, the concept of a philosopher-king is quite appealing right now, for abundantly obvious reasons, so let's find out what an actual philosopher-king had to say.