John
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Really more like 3.5 stars. Armstrong is an excellent writer and starts the book off very strong, but it becomes more of a recounting of important episodes than adding anything new or interesting to the thesis. Still, I appreciated the breadth of the book and the style, so it was well worth the time.
Thoroughly enjoyed this. The choices he makes about what to include and how to move across so much info made a lot of sense. He's an engaging lecturer and does a ‘reading from an essay' style without feeling stilted or tedious in the slightest. Poetic and food cultures were particularly interesting