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Abandoned @ 11 % Some of this book is interesting, but it's just too much of the same and I can't see myself slogging through another 200 pages of literary tidbits.
This started off super-slow for me for the same reason any overview of history does: it starts with ancient history. I know it's important. I know it influences just about everything today, but it's, forgive me, a bit dull. Once we got through The Classical World and the Middle Ages though, t...
The author states that the aim of this book is to "bring to light the lesser-know aspects of well-known books, and to show how obscure and little-known books have surprising links with the familiar world around us". The book has generally managed to accomplish the stated aims. This book is a colle...
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