It's really not the easiest book to love if you're not the type who enjoys archaic literature and don't mind being interrupted by footnotes.

If you ever change your mind I bet the usual collections of Classics (Penguin etc.) have decent editions. Accurate translation counts, but in the case of works like this the editor, how good a scholar he is and how well he can make his presentation and notes interesting to a non-specialized audience, is just as important.