Is Euclid suitable as a first exposure to Geometry?

[hackedagainanda]

I'm currently studying Algebra and have collected Euclid's Elements, Lang's Geometry, Gelfand's Trigonometry, and Rhoad and et al's Geometry for Enjoyment and challenge. A quick perusal of the books seem to involve coordinates and algebra knowledge. From what I've heard Euclid is closer to Pure geometry or at least before the advent of Algebra based geometry.

The Element's seem a little stilted in the prose of the book but I want to give it a chance.

So, in your opinion could I start with Euclid then proceed to more modern texts, or would I be better off starting with a modern text?

 

[Office_Shredder]

For fun, Euclid's not too bad. It won't teach you very much that will be useful in your further math career - in fact, maybe the biggest development of math in the last 500 years was not using elementary geometry to express anything anymore.