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leadbelly's review against another edition
2.0
A fascinating topic drawn out into a sprawling and repetitive drudge. This reads as a collection of all the salt related stuff that the author could find. There's a need for some serious editing and structuring.
lmdo's review against another edition
3.0
I like salt, and I liked the first third of this book. My interest waned a lot as he started to talk about salt in America around the time of the civil war though.
mtu_husky's review against another edition
3.75
I liked it, just hard to give it a passionate review. You have to be in the right mindset to spend this much time on salt.
aprilfool's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
4.5
Surprisingly interesting book about the discovery and uses of salt all around the world. The audiobook was easy to follow; although, I did not always know exactly where the text was referring to. Scott Brick is an excellent reader.
lcmilewski's review against another edition
3.0
Salt: A World History has been on my list for a long time and I'm glad I finally got around to reading it. This book is chock full of interesting information about the history of salt and the importance of the salt trade around the world. However, I've heard many people say it reads like a novel and...it doesn't. While it's engaging and well-written, it isn't the type of book I found myself not wanting to put down. I also found it was a little too heavily weighted toward European history, which got tedious after awhile. Still, a worthwhile read.
venturecrapitalism's review against another edition
fast-paced
3.0
A moderately interesting but weird book. Many sections ended with a sentence that felt like it should be a segue to the next topic, but came off closer to an unfinished thought. Lots of very interesting anecdotes and history but he was trying too hard to write ~literature~ and it frequently came off as sophomoric.
Also I’m pretty sure he’s a Zionist which sucks. Completely unnecessary book topic to start with a quote from Theodor Herzl, yet here we are!
Also I’m pretty sure he’s a Zionist which sucks. Completely unnecessary book topic to start with a quote from Theodor Herzl, yet here we are!
mmbc's review against another edition
funny
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
Dang, who knew you could write so much about salt? This was a DENSE and fascinating book, explaining how salt underpins so much of our world's history, culture, economics, and food. There is no way I retained all that information, but there are random tidbits that will stay with me forever! I also loved how tight the author kept it, laser focused on salt, though he did permit the occasional tangent down an interesting path. It was long, so took me a while to get through, but I'm glad I did!
auntmine84's review against another edition
4.0
I had no idea that there was this much to know about salt.
I thought the author did a great job of presenting the ways that different cultures found, used, and depended on salt. The book was well-written and really interesting (especially the part about the Celts found preserved in salt mountains). I'm impressed that the author could take such a mountain of information and present it in both an enlightening and entertaining way.
I thought the author did a great job of presenting the ways that different cultures found, used, and depended on salt. The book was well-written and really interesting (especially the part about the Celts found preserved in salt mountains). I'm impressed that the author could take such a mountain of information and present it in both an enlightening and entertaining way.