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I finished Boswell's London Journal a while ago. It was a mildly interesting read in that it was utterly mundane. It is a great illustration of how people really aren't any different than they were in the the middle 18th century. The journal covers Boswell's year in London when he was out of school and not yet settled down to a job. He's living on an allowance from his father and trying to make connections with the upper crust and important literary figures. There is plenty of name dropping, self-absorbed egocentricity, piety, and fornication. So yeah, some things don't change.

28. James Boswell's Boswell's London Journal