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Well I think some people might not be interested in erotic love between men and boys but they are missing out, cause the Symposium is pretty damn good. Bad thing about the Symposium is that if you don't know the history, characters and their relation to each other you will miss out on about 70% of the jokes, but it's pretty funny all the same. If you want to get the most out of it, study up on Athens at that time and the doings of the characters in the book before you read it. And keep in mind when it was written and where these characters were in at in their lives. Anything by Plato is worth reading even if you don't know the context, but context makes it infinitely better.