Paradise Lost

Reading the whole thing in a one day marathon might tint my glasses some way yet unkown to me, but hear me out on my thoughts, please. This work is endlessly fascinating with how it dramatices and deepens the first part of the book of Genesis and gives it a whole new life. The characters taken from scripture are fascinating and intriguing and make me want to deepen my understanding of Christianity. This work however suffers from the fact that it is most definitely a work of it's time. An overly drawn out, somewhat undeveloped, a tad misogynistic, and ancient in its cultural sensibilities. Give this a read and not a listen to unless you are a priest who perfectly understands the didsts and thous and thys. I do give John milton credit for making me genuinely like the angels and Jesus as interesting people.