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A review by mybookcorner
F*cking History: 111 Lessons You Should Have Learned in School by The Captain
2.0
I was sent this finished copy by Tarcher Perigee for an honest review.
This was entertaining, but mostly irritating. I never gravitate towards books that claim you didn’t learn X amount in school/your life/etc because...a lot of the time I have to be honest! This book did have some historical facts that I was not familiar with, but the majority of them I did. It was like a mini Wikipedia page with illustrations, the historical fact and a lot of F bombs/comparisons to the modern dating age/sex/penis’ and always ended with a moral or a “life lesson”. I understand what the author was trying to do, but it came across as tedious and downright obnoxious and smart-ass-y. And a lot of the morals didn’t really make any sense when compared with historical figures or stories. There are too many examples to name. But I’d say this is a shortened history book for bros. There’s not much substance at all. It’s a good try, but it was a miss for me.
This was entertaining, but mostly irritating. I never gravitate towards books that claim you didn’t learn X amount in school/your life/etc because...a lot of the time I have to be honest! This book did have some historical facts that I was not familiar with, but the majority of them I did. It was like a mini Wikipedia page with illustrations, the historical fact and a lot of F bombs/comparisons to the modern dating age/sex/penis’ and always ended with a moral or a “life lesson”. I understand what the author was trying to do, but it came across as tedious and downright obnoxious and smart-ass-y. And a lot of the morals didn’t really make any sense when compared with historical figures or stories. There are too many examples to name. But I’d say this is a shortened history book for bros. There’s not much substance at all. It’s a good try, but it was a miss for me.