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151 reviews for:
The Rest Is History: From Ancient Rome to Ronald Reagan--History's Most Curious Questions, Answered
Goalhanger Podcasts
3.74 AVERAGE
151 reviews for:
The Rest Is History: From Ancient Rome to Ronald Reagan--History's Most Curious Questions, Answered
Goalhanger Podcasts
3.74 AVERAGE
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Very productive so far this year, another book done for our provisional target of 25. So that makes it 4 so far. Not bad considering how unproductive I was last year. I do still read several at a time but that's how it works for me and I am quite enjoying the Kindle Colorsoft too.
This book is a very fun read from two highly respected historians. Some interesting and funny topics like for example the history of St Patrick which makes the whole fuss over him seem like Americanised bullshit. It seems he wasn't even Irish either but like me and Welsh. And the myth around him could have been a mix of another person and them become merged as one.
The Dan Brown section was also funny and their investigation into the basis of The Da Vinci Code and the inspirations and fiction behind the "facts".
Overall very enjoyable and I wasn't familiar with the podcast before this book but I am familiar with both historians and I will check out the podcast when time permits.
I am a third of the way through my next book too, its just a short one Babylon Revisited by F Scott Fitzgerald.
https://valleyreading.uk/2025/01/26/the-rest-is-history-by-tom-holland-dominic-sandbrook/
This book is a very fun read from two highly respected historians. Some interesting and funny topics like for example the history of St Patrick which makes the whole fuss over him seem like Americanised bullshit. It seems he wasn't even Irish either but like me and Welsh. And the myth around him could have been a mix of another person and them become merged as one.
The Dan Brown section was also funny and their investigation into the basis of The Da Vinci Code and the inspirations and fiction behind the "facts".
Overall very enjoyable and I wasn't familiar with the podcast before this book but I am familiar with both historians and I will check out the podcast when time permits.
I am a third of the way through my next book too, its just a short one Babylon Revisited by F Scott Fitzgerald.
https://valleyreading.uk/2025/01/26/the-rest-is-history-by-tom-holland-dominic-sandbrook/
adventurous
challenging
funny
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
adventurous
funny
informative
medium-paced
funny
informative
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
A fun and short book Fun of interesting facts and different ways of presenting history. Easy to read before bedtime and entertaining.
The reality is though that you have to think the voices in to really make it come alive Half the fun of the rest is history is the interaction between Sandbrook and Holland as well as their intonation and voices That is not present and though they go for clever formats is simply is not as much fun as these two gentlemen telling
The reality is though that you have to think the voices in to really make it come alive Half the fun of the rest is history is the interaction between Sandbrook and Holland as well as their intonation and voices That is not present and though they go for clever formats is simply is not as much fun as these two gentlemen telling
challenging
funny
informative
medium-paced
lighthearted
Tom and Dominic are very well educated men I just find it troubling that they (and they’ve said they don’t do this on their podcast a few times) don’t moralise the history their telling. Especially cringe when they interject actually devestating stories (a lot of the time about women or children) with jokes??? About football?? You can make history fun and accessible without having a joke about women thanks
informative
fast-paced