Weekly “what are you reading” Thread #33

A friend recommended the Sophus Helle translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh. I'm enjoying it overall so far. It can be hard to tell the intended tone of a text without its cultural context, but I found the sequence where the priestess fricks the hairy wild-man Enkidu and then the animals don't like him anymore pretty funny. The fragmented nature of the text can make it a bit frustrating. I understand why publishers don't just invent text to fill the gaps, but reading it feels more like a historical project or a school assignment than an ordinary book.