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Title: Winchester: As a writer, this bloke's a fine geologist
Review: Repetitious and full of digression, this book concentrates on substituting personal stories and the author's deep knowledge of geology for a general history. Some of it is interesting, but it takes 150 pages to actually get to the eruption and the times directly leading up to it. Too much unnecessary background, and too much about Simon's personal life.Discerning readers would be better off reading something else besides this. The guy can't decide whether he's writing for fellow geologists (a party crowd, no doubt), a personal travelog (at these points, his vivid description and interesting anecdotes are as scintillating as Aunt Patsie's Branson Missouri slides)or a serviceable history suitable to the casual reader. He does all of these (even fairly well at times), but the whole is incoherent and a mind-numbing slog.I can't wait to avoid any further literary work on his part.
