Ryan’s Reviews > The Modern Cruiser: The Evolution of the Ships That Fought the Second World War > Status Update

Something of an unexpected slog, I finally made it to the notes section at page 535 on my kindle. Listed at 288 pages because in print it's a coffee table book. Long and detailed, definitely not a popular history. Great at what it is and deserves 5 stars for that, but it was too long and niche and dull for me and dragged on forever until it got exciting at WWII. I've got to balance the qualitative into my rating.

Showing on goodreads as 288 pages, I was excited for a nice overview of the cruiser class. My kindle now shows me at 32% on page 224, and that's about how it's reading. So very very dense. Recommended for professional naval architects of the fleet... only.

Happy to finally get a description of a cruiser battle (Battle of Ulsan, 1904) after so many pages of: this class weighed this much, had this powerplant, this armor, and these guns... the next class weighed this much, had this powerplant, this armor, and these guns... the next class weighed...

So this is kind of like that 19th century book on butlering I read a few years ago. Extremely niche and quite dull, though that one had some charm. We'll see if I make it through this someday.