I can handle dry, that's not the problem. It's assuming I have a detailed knowledge of the politics and culture of 17th century England. It's 75 endnotes per chapter with 67 of them being nothing but citations and the remaining having good information I actually want to read so I have to decide whether to turn to the back 4 times a page to make sure I get everything or risk missing something helpful to try to stay in the flow of reading. After complaining a few times about the book Shawn saw me reading it again and asked why I was still bothering. I had just read the sentence: "It was with the help of Indian culture that Tryon freed himself from Christianities anthropocentric value system and made a leap into another moral dimension." I returned the book to the library. ( )

In my collection but I haven't actually read it yet