Title: Unfocused at Best
Product review: This book was an EXTREMELY difficult read. The author is prone to erratic, often unrelated tangents, which read like an exercise in free association. At times I felt like someone had taken passages from the reading comprehension section of the GRE and just thrown them together in a book without any overall reason. The worst was the section on the Jews. Whatever his feelings may be about the Jews, there is no need to trace their circumstances up to and including WWII in a book about the Black Death! He took what could have been an interesting chapter and mutilated it by losing any semblance of focus. In the book's defense there are some interesting bits of trivia in this dung heap, but unless you are a bit of a masochist I can't recommend this book.
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