The Republic

I never thought I will finish this book. It's so dense, not necessarily due to its content but inability of mine to comprehend the ideas that were presented. I don't know why I started reading this book, may be because I wanted to see how great philosophers think. I am not at all convinced whether it will bring practical value to me either in personal, social or professional life (apart from bragging right, whatever that worth). May be its wrong to have such expectations from such Platonic book. Most of the ideas were idealistic photograph of reality.