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Pretty much just a list of noteworthy Britons who preferred other nations over Britain. Mildly entertaining and informative.

Reading this as a challenge against someone on fb who claims that the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. I am still in the old-fashioned, Dark Ages camp. After chapter one, I am still not convinced.

Should short people be given growth hormone to make them taller?

This is the best book I have ever read. I cannot stand that it is almost over, I just want to hug it and kiss it and never let it go.

whenever I read a saga I am always struck by the recurring theme of gossip. Everybody in Iceland seems to know everything about everybody else down to who owes whom what.

So very slow reading to my mother, a few pages each day. But it is an enjoyable work to read slowly, for going too quick would probably diminish its impact.

The period of Baldwin I and Baldwin II were so charmingly enjoyable to read that I regret the conclusion of their lives; next up: Baldwin III.

Very interesting, very enjoyable read; not dry at all, filled with romantic anecdotes and dashing adventure

This is a fun read, but I am having a hard time taking it too seriously. Such must be the case whenever anything is read that was written by a noted dogmatist, for the dogmatic will always sacrifice Truth for Dogma.

While I do agree with a great deal of what he says, I also find some of it to be rather childish or outdated. Indeed, this book is very, very much the product of the times in which it was written, having been published in 1930.

Working slowly at this one, a section or two every couple days. It is very enjoyable and provides fodder for a great deal of contemplation, and as such I believe that a slow reading is optimal.

I am just trying to rush through this and get on to the next. While I loved The Golden Ass, I cannot stand Robert Graves's style in this one. "Assegai"? Really? Good God, man, this is ancient Rome not Scramble-era Africa!