Out of our 10 members no one finished the book. It read like a text book. I got about halfway through and had to give up. There were some interesting facts but it was a lot of work to get to them. I dreaded picking it up each day to try to finish it. This was my least favorite book of all the books in our 10-year-old book club history. I'm glad I borrowed it from a friend and didn't pay for it.