Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor (Post 243973)

I also just read Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation. These two tie together kind of nicely, as Vowell finds her own repeating patterns in history. She travels around to places made famous by the assassinated presidents, especially those we don't know much about.

Originally Posted by Alex (Post 244388)

I bought it (Millennial Makeover) and will take it to Europe with me.

In the other thread I wasn't saying the theses of the book were necessarily wrong, just that it is endeavor with a lot of good looking failure. Historical patterns have a habit of making complete sense and working fine right up until someone tries to use them to forecast future history. Hari Seldon is still a visionary. But that in know way makes them bad reads assuming the history is correct (and sometimes the forecasts work at least one more time too).