In the past months, I've mentioned Diarmaid MacCulloch's book The Reformation: A History a few times.

Tonight, I finally finished it. Here's a list of posts where I mentioned the book in more than passing:

• Demanding Teaching, High Expectations
• I Think, Therefore I Blog
• The Scholarly Omnivore: Knowledge in the 21st Century
• Reformation through Multiple Forms of Media

The book is around 700 pages of narrative prose. It took me about five months to get through, though it did sit untouched for weeks at a time while I focused on other things.

All in all, I'd recommend it. Some places were dry, other places were (I thought) unnecessary; but as a whole the book is worth reading. Particularly if you have an interest in history and especially if you have an interest in the Reformation.