Just finished the book 1968, by Mark Kurlansky. It's a very well researched, well written book. But despite that, it's not terribly interesting. It took me almost two months to get through the book (which only has less than 400 pages. I can normally get through a book like that in two or three weeks). I though it would talk a lot about the USA during 1968, and it indeed does talk about it, but he also spends a lot of time on Poland, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, France, Cuba, etc, etc. And he goes all the way back to the birth of the major figures of the time: Castro, Dubcek, some of the student movement people in Poland, and the USA. That stuff, while very well researched, was kinda boring to me.
Overall, it was a good, informative book...but it wasn't an easy read, because I kept losing interest.
POLT
Well for Christ's sake, the woman clung to your tap shoes while she was flung through the air like a lawn dart! - Loretta, Drop Dead Gorgeous
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