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A Less Boring History of the World
A Less Boring History of the World | Dave Rear
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Refreshes the parts other history books can’t reach... A bit ropy on the Renaissance? In the dark about the Enlightenment? Or, in fact, do you need a revision course on the entire history of the world and want to read a witty, irreverent, definitely not boring romp through everything that has ever happened on planet earth – from 15 billion years BC to the present day? Good. A Less Boring History of the World tells you everything you need to know from the Big Bang to Barack Obama, taking in the Byzantines, the Black Death, Bin Laden and the fall of bankers along the way, all boiled down to bite size chunks so that you can finally piece together all the different bits of history - and see how on earth we ended up in the mess we are today. A Less Boring History refreshes your memory and broadens your mind. And, if that’s not enough, it will also make you laugh. A lot.
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This book did a great job of explaining the history of the world and making me laugh while doing so. However, I think it would be better in paper format rather than audio. The names and events went by much too quickly and now I can‘t remember much of what made me laugh. From what I can tell, the long and the short of the history of the world is that war and killing is ever present. 3 stars.

saresmoore War and killing, yes. It‘s hard for me not to immediately associate that fact with gender... 7y
Chrissyreadit @saresmoore you may be onto something. 7y
Suet624 @saresmoore @Chrissyreadit come to think of it, very few, if any, women were mentioned in this book. 7y
Chrissyreadit @Suet624 that is very interesting. And by interesting I mean often a problem in a lot of history books. 7y
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