Read this book if only for the foreword. That’s all I could absorb, before I retreated, defeated by the archaic prose and the horrible typesetting in the edition I had.
The Mongols fascinate me almost more than history itself. I’m currently on a drive to read as much as I can find about the Khans, and [...]

When I was a kid, I once ran into a quiz master who wanted to know what Mot Juste meant. I aced that one, all right. The French Language just got its own back at me – I am certainly the Wrong Man for this particular book.
I’m aching to classify it as “Avoidable”, but fairness [...]

I once read a science fiction story – long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away – which the author prefaced with the comments that he (she?) was going to start with the end and end with the start. I forget if the middle was where it should have been, because I don’t think [...]

I picked this book because of the title. I put it down quickly enough. Maybe it’s because my IQ  hovers in the low teens, but I just can’t cotton onto this style of writing. Of course, I’ll never make the jury for the Booker Prize. Big surprise. No recommendation since I couldn’t even get past [...]