Karan’s Reviews > The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers > Status Update

Hows so far ?

It's good! Really good at times. The way Will Durant writes is poetic, sometimes a bit too poetic to hold your interest, haha.

I've reached Spinoza, and he's one hell of a philosopher. I found Francis Bacon to be a highly boring philosopher, but I cannot conclude just yet, as Durant often writes more about the background and history concerning the philosophers rather than their philosophical ideas and their developments through the ages. That is the single biggest flaw in the book.