Nom de Plume

I don’t think I’m a the stereotypical Gen X-er with the attention span of a flea caused by too many commercials and video games. At least, I never thought I was–until now. I fully expected to devour this book about the history of various spices. But while some of the information was interesting, Dalby leaches out the flavor with pedantic, plodding prose. It’s riddled with “We discover that …” and “As we discussed earlier.” Well, he may have discussed something earlier, but I must have missed that part. It was too boring.