Samuel Pepys' diary - how do you like it?

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I tried reading it for the first time when I was in my middle teens (it was in a local library) but I didn't like it back then AT ALL, for it seemed incredibly boring to me - there were so many people mentioned in his diary, without any sort of explanation as for who they were I finished reading it again now and now I just love it - maybe not as much as the journals of L. M. Montgomery but I still enjoy Mr. Pepys' diary entries, some of them are quite funny, even if it isn't the conscious sort of humor as L. M. Montgomery mentioned in one of her own diary entries on Pepys' diary.

I find it fascinating

His account of the Great Fire of 1666 is of great historical value.

In the Polish edition of his diary that came out here, not all the entries are available - some pieces of information were omitted by Maria Dąbrowska who translated this diary. I read her own journal intime as well but it was very boring. She was a famous writer in my country and we still discuss some of her books at school; she was bisexual and in a long relationship with another woman, Anna Kowalska (also a writer), with whom they together raised Anna's daughter. I wish Pepys didn't finish his diary so abruptly after those nine years, due to his fear of getting blind. He didn't get blind after all, so he could start writing again.