A review by bemused_writer
Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin

2.0

This is an interesting book and gives some insight into the kind of advice people were often given. While I was reading I realized there was apparently some serious paranoia about a few different things: doctors, women, and debt collectors. While it's already a given that certain unfortunate ideas held nowadays stem from earlier periods this book gives a pretty good idea of what some of them were and are, especially regarding women. Having said that, I'm not sure anyone is a big fan of being in debt but I can't help but think there were some different undertones to that sentiment back in the day.

So, I can't say I always "enjoyed" this book but it is historically illuminating and I would recommend it on those merits. Probably my favorite piece of advice was "Men and melons are hard to know." This was not something I'd ever heard before and I found it quite amusing. I looked it up and it is actually a pretty good observation: both can be pretty thick.