This is horribly written, but I needed a quick read on Luther's life. Ugh. At one point Manns admits that "This sentence is enormously long because…" but fails to realize that he has been doing that throughout the whole book. And there was no good reason for that sentence to have been "enormously long." He rambled, left out pertinent facts, ran ahead in the narrative, only to go back and pick up a line of thought that seemed to have been discarded mid-sentence. I'm glad the torture is over. ( )

This is horribly written, but I needed a quick read on Luther's life. Ugh. At one point Manns admits that "This sentence is enormously long because…" but fails to realize that he has been doing that throughout the whole book. And there was no good reason for that sentence to have been "enormously long." He rambled, left out pertinent facts, ran ahead in the narrative, only to go back and pick up a line of thought that seemed to have been discarded mid-sentence. I'm glad the torture is over. ( )