I'm not a big fan of factual books sometimes as I don't have a good attention span for them, sometimes even for things I'm really interested in. I might have felt a bit different with this one if I'd more time to read it as I did like the writing style, it was very laid back and conversational, but I felt the outer story section was very long so I didn't read all of it. I tend to read factual books in smaller bits for shorter periods of time so again I might have felt differently with more time to delve into it, but my first impression was it was a bit long winded.