As a disabled, immunocompromised person living in make-believe no-Covid world amid revolving door poverty, an active genocide and increasing eugenics campaigns globally I am finding less and less reason to continue Being. Tell me how you’re doing it, dear reader, so that I can make living in unending despair at all bearable.
Not trying to crap on you or anything but my impression was the opposite, he very much went for the narrativized style of history that felt it could be easily adapted to a TV series. I don't think it got too bogged down in details, names, and places.
lol yeah I also read this as "how dense the book can be at times" even on second glance. I don't think of periods in history as being "dense" but it makes sense now that you point it out
misinterpreted as