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Title: Should be sold with aspirin.
Review: I may actually know less about world history after reading this book than I did before. The author has removed all the excitement and pure narrative power of human history and reduced it to a weaving, confusing, incongruous listing of names and dates. In addition to being an unrepentant anglophile, he seems to feel that a culture can only be as valuable as its metallurgical advancement, droning so much that one expects his work would be produced in a hive and not a publishing house. This book is also printed in an eye-straining font, which only serves to increase the pain-inducing effect of the words themselves. I can only shudder when reminded that this was the "short" version!
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