Status Updates From One Hot Summer: Dickens, Da...

At the moment, I'm having a hard time with this, as a narrative of a great many silly people doing stupid, often cruel, things. I might have to jump over to one of the (many) other books I have in progress, but I'm losing patience with all of these twits, from Dickens to Marx to everybody who ever thought filling the Thames with sewage was a grand idea.

Dear lord, some idiot on Audible gave this a middling rating because ... it's British history. With which they were unfamiliar. Their three-star review is titled "British", like - that's what's wrong with it, it's British. I'm sorry - what part of "Thames" did you have trouble comprehending? I despair of humanity sometimes