After reading Elif Shafak's There are Rivers in the Sky, I reading wanted to read The Epic of Gilgamesh. I really enjoyed Foster's translation. It was easy to read and understand. The oldest known epic (4000+ years old), it is easy to see how other stories/epics flowed forth from this one. Was blown away that Noah's Ark and the Flood in the Bible is lifted (practically word for word) from Gilgamesh.
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