Beowulf by Seamus Heaney

Beowulf is obviously a classic. Of course I had to read for school. (Why else would someone read it, really?) But, for a school book, it was actually not that bad. The book is about Beowulf, a hero that goes and does various heroic things, like kill monsters and dragons. (Very similar to The Iliad and The Odyssey). I've had to write many papers on this baby. This is a much better translation than others because the language is almost current instead of poetry.