Too many stories, not enough history.

Tom Holland is a charming fellow and intelligent at that. It’s quite entertaining to listen to his own rendition of his books. Whereas that ham actor Mark Meadows’ reading is close to unbearable, That I actually made it through the book, is probably due to the fact that I was ill and slept much of the time.

But what made me sleepy? Rather than my cold it is the fact that, especially in this volume, Holland spares his readers the inconvenience of too much structural thought that could’ve enabled the reader to make sense of this endless stream of who with whom against whom. (An 1 1/2 hour interview with Professor Stefan Weinfurter on the same events, gave me more than the whole book.)
Much rarer than in Pax where are the passages where he really succeeded in sharing (show me) new light on the living conditions of another culture. But maybe I was I’ve just had enough of this style of making history, entertaining. There’s something perverse in the notion anyway, if you care to contemplate what these events actually meant for ordinary people.

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