Twelve Books That Changed the World by Melvin Bragg

I feel a bit of a cheat about posting this book because I only read half of it. It was good but highly specialised in its interest: each of the books he wrote about focused on a critical aspect of society and how it had been influenced by a major publication. The books about feminism and human rights and evolution and even football I found interesting but I really couldn't get into the stuff on the invention of various sorts of ploughs and spinning machines NOT WHEN I HAD A NEW iMAC AND A NEW KINDLE AND A NEW NETBOOK PC TO PLAY WITH!!!!! Yes, I was seduced away from it all by new technology. In the absence of my new toys I probably would have finished Twelve Books, and learned something wonderful, but for the moment it has gone by the board. The first half rated four stars though and it would be a specially good book for a bloke to read, what with all that equipment in it. (BTW the new technology is wonderful and I've loaded six books onto the Kindle.)