[Cathryn Crawford]

I highly recommend it. I found it far from boring - I still read through it occasionally.

I also highly, highly recommend "A Place Among The Nations: Israel And The World" by Benjamin Netanyahu. Despite the name, it deals not only with Israel, but the entire Middle East. It's an excellent lesson in the history and culture, and is still relevant despite being written in, I believe, 1990 or '91. It's not boring, either.

[CatoRenasci]

Well, perhaps I'll try it again. It took me three tries (more than 30 years ago) to get past the first 100 pages in Moby Dick, now one of my favorites.