Thomas Paine
A book I have been slogging through for nigh on a year is Thomas Paine – social and political thought.
I hadn’t been reading books for a while so to get back into it started taking them for the bus journey to work and back. Unfortunately this was probably a poor choice for reading early on the day.
It’s a book analysing late 18th century political theory and is written in a style to match. Really dense, black hole academic dense. I quite enjoy books with loads of endnotes and footnotes.
The bibliography is almost 30 pages.
30.
pages.
That tells you how many endnotes etc. there were.
The book was enjoyable, interesting and informative. It just achieved these attributes in spite of its style. And it was a bargain too, normally £20+ I got it for £3 from the SSP‘s Wee Red Bookshop.