This is about to get ignorant. I can feel it...
Anyone read Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"? Its going to take me another month to finish on the plane going back and forth to work each week and in the airports. It's not a fun book to have to carry around. It's a ton of info to digest, and a lot of it will need to be revisited as I get further along. I'll probably be ready for this thread around March