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Just tried, and failed, to finish The Mongols, by Jeremiah Curtin. It's so dense as to be unreadable. It's an advanced level book -- you'd already have to know quite a bit about the time period to get much out of it. And the question is why bother at that point -- the book was published 100 years ago (which I didn't know when I bought it, idiot me). Might as well just stick to the latest scholarship. Can't remember the last book I just gave up on, but I was 200 pages into it and realizing that I would retain absolutely nothing, so I just tossed it aside. Life's too short...
Currently reading the Life of Belisarius, Last Great General of Rome. It's even older, like 140 years, but very readable. I'm at least passingly familiar with the subject matter, so the fact that the scholarship isn't the latest is ok. Wouldn't highly recommend it or anything, but it's fine.
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