Pepy's Diary - What did I find most interesting?

I definitely enjoyed the historical aspect of the diary. Coming from a previous Political Science major, History tends to interest me and entertain me. I especially found the London fire intriguing. I pictured myself watching all of the action - the fire, the mad people running, and while doing tha I imagined what it must have been like to be there. What is it like to watch a fabulous city (in this case not so fabulous) cirty go up in flames. What is it like to watch your own home go up in flames. Even Pepys seems troubled by the entire ordeal. When he talks of wanting to write his father but the post office had gone up in flames so he couldn't and the idea of having dinner and how melancholy it actually was. While reading this everything felt so real.

I also related this piece to the September 11 attacks on the United States. It felts as though I was on autopilot watching the CNN coverage of the planes flying into the towers. Wow!