Note - I didn’t finish this book. It’s well written, and I found the archaeology part interesting. I appreciated the author’s inclusion of original teNote - I didn’t finish this book. It’s well written, and I found the archaeology part interesting. I appreciated the author’s inclusion of original text excerpts in Sardinian languages, but it made the reading difficult. What I wanted was a romantic, fun travel book with food, landscapes and interesting people, what you get is a lot of history and literary criticism. Hard to hold my attention. ...more
This isn’t a bad book, it’s well written and parts of it are very interesting, but not enough to hold my attention for 481 pages. Initially, I heard aThis isn’t a bad book, it’s well written and parts of it are very interesting, but not enough to hold my attention for 481 pages. Initially, I heard about Boom Town on a podcast, which peaked my interest: the stories of the land rush, the supersonic jets. But I don’t really care than much about Oklahoma City. Yeah, there is some history, some bizarre stuff. This book is a little too nerdy for me. It’s the kind of thing I’ll read for 5 minutes in the evening or in the afternoon and drift off to sleep......more