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Hardcover: 269 pages
Publisher: Short Books, London; illustrated edition edition (2 Nov 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1904977545
ISBN-13: 978-1904977544
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.4 x 3 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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Book Description

Have you ever found yourself irritated when a sine qua non or
a mea culpa is thrown into the conversation by a particularly annoying
person? Or do distant memories of afternoons spent struggling to learn
obscure verbs fill you with dread?
Never fear! (or as a Latin show-off might say, Nil Desperandum!)
In this delightful guided tour of Latin, which features everything from a
Monty Python grammar lesson to David Beckham's tattoos and all the best
snippets of prose and poetry from 2000 years of literary history, Harry
Mount wipes the dust off those boring primers and breathes life back into
the greatest language of them all.

About the Author

Harry Mount read Classics at Oxford and was a Latin tutor before becoming a journalist. He has been a leader-writer and New York correspondent at the Daily Telegraph. His memoir of his time as a barrister's pupil, My Brief Career, is also published by Short Books --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly entertaining, 20 Feb 2007

By	Imperator "Imperator" (Birkenhead, Merseyside United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

I was very surprised to see some of the negative reviews that this book has received here. I am a recently qualified Latin teacher, and I have recent experience of Latin from both sides of the teacher / student divide. I found the book to be thoroughly entertaining and informative, occasionally downright hilarious, and it consistently held my attention.

I think the discrepancies in the reviews above are largely due to people's misguided expectations of the book. It is not (nor could it possibly be used as) a reference work by which one could expect to learn the language. Its audience is probably limited to those who already have a reasonable knowledge of Latin, and, put simply, the author aims to reward your knowledge (no matter how basic) with some clever 'in jokes' and literary references. He does so, in my opinion, with a good deal of skill and success.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bene, 8 Oct 2006

By	D. M. L. Higgins (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I couldn't believe I would enjoy a book based on the latin language and how it might affect the way I go about my life, but having been given a copy of Amo, Amas, Amat I could not put it down. Not only is it written with great wit and intelligence, but it really makes understanding Latin easy in a way I could never have believed possible when it was taught to me at school. Thank you, Harry Mount, for finally bringing Latin to life for me.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Confusing, 9 Aug 2008

By	G. L. Haggett "glynlhaggett" (UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

While this book amounts on one level to a light-hearted but informative take on Latin, its learning and its relentless demise in British schools, the (rather angry) final chapter left me confused as to what the author was actually trying to do.

As might be expected from a person of Harry Mount's standing, there is much humour in this piece; indeed, at times, the jocular tone and somewhat self-conscious attempts to jemmy in a joke at all costs serve to interrupt the flow and can become a smidge irritating and make the author seem a little too pleased with himself.

However, the final chapter, with its rather spiteful attack on modern textbooks and methods, sits rather uneasily with the tone of the rest of the book and gives the impression, rightly or wrongly, that Mount's intention was rather more serious than he might originally have implied. All in all, a rather confusing conclusion to a book which is certainly well worth reading by anyone who remembers those dark times of learning Latin declensions and cases by rote.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Worth reading
Excellent Book.
Really takes you back to your latin lesssons. It explains things that i didn't understand then!

Published 2 months ago by Deb M

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining read but not a learning tool
I was given this book by Secret Santa in my office last Christmas (presumably because I have some Roman numerals tattooed on my arm). Read more

Published 3 months ago by LXIX

5.0 out of 5 stars Amo
Amo,Amas,Amat is a pleasure to read, witty and amusing and, of course, very informative. For anyone interested in language it is a must. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Jeannie

3.0 out of 5 stars quite funny, but with reservations
Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That
As a foreigner who, fortunately or unfortunately, has had his share of Cambridge university education (and social life) and cathedral choir... Read more

Published 5 months ago by L. Ortega Sanchez

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun but inaccurate
I lost count of the (mostly minor) errors in this book - the most glaring included putting AD after the date instead of before it (not normally a hanging offence, but in a Latin... Read more

Published 5 months ago by J. Harrisson

4.0 out of 5 stars I love, thou lovest, she loves
A very interesting and amusing recollection of School Latin, with an admixture of Latin we didn't know before.

Published 9 months ago by Mr. A. W. Bridges

4.0 out of 5 stars Lamenting less Latin
An entertaining run through Latin as the language of the classics.

Could have said something about pronunciation: why make it up as the classicists do, or mangle it... Read more

Published 14 months ago by William

2.0 out of 5 stars OK, but "Annus Horribilis" is better
I wanted to enjoy this book more than I actually did. I've recently got "Annus Horribilis: Latin for Everyday Life" (by Mark Walker, published by Tempus) which I found more fun... Read more

Published 23 months ago by Melanie Heath

1.0 out of 5 stars Tedious and pointless
Other reviewers have asked the question 'Who is this book for?' and that was the question going through my mind as I read it. Read more

Published on 17 Aug 2007 by Field Marshall Haig

3.0 out of 5 stars Amo, Amas, Amat and all that
I particularly liked the chapter remeniscing about his school days.

Published on 30 May 2007 by Mr. David M. Cox

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