Don't Know Much

I'm trying to break up my Dark-Hunter reading a bit, so I thought I'd alternate chapters of Don't Know Much About Anything by Kenneth C. Davis with my regular Dark-Hunter reading. Last night I read the first chapter, Famous People. It was quite an interesting format. Each person was only two pages. There is a half-page or so about the famous person and then five to seven questions. The back of the page answers the five questions for you about the famous person. For example, one of the questions about Malcom X was this, True or False "He used 'X' as a last name because he was an ex-convict." The answer for you will be in google. For me I found it quite interesting why he actually changed his last name to X. I had thought it was just an initial for his last name. 

The people featured in this book are: Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Rosa Parks, Malcom X, Houdini, Mother Theresa, Michelangelo, Young George Washington, Dr. Spock, Gandhi, Henry Ford, Ralph Waldo Emerson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sitting Bull, Queen Elizabeth II, Ann Frank, Hellen Keller, Abraham Lincoln, Amelia Earhart, Thomas A. Edison and Albert Einstein.

I think what I liked about the list so much was the diversity and the order. The order of people was as I listed it. Made for interesting reading. It also made me want to discover more information about some of the people. The big question will be this, will I remember what I have read in a week?

My next chapter (after a Dark-Hunter book) will be Exceptional Places. I look forward to it, but apparently I need to get my non-fiction in small doses. :-)