I always found Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" a real mallet to the head. You wouldn't think it was possoble to make that dull, but he managed. In three volumes.
*schnort* Yeah, so much of history is FASCINATING in the right hands and utterly soullessly boring in the wrong hands. The times still studied today should be riveting, dangit! It's not like nothing happened!
Some books seem to me to be much longer than they "needed" to be. I always thought that meant I was an unwashed heathen with no appreciation for fine literature.
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You wouldn't think it was possoble to make that dull, but he managed. In three volumes.
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