# Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - November 2022 edition

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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** books-writing-myths
**Created:** [October 30, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044 "2022-10-30T21:45:58Z")
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### Author: ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2022-edition/974044/79 "2022-11-23T15:59:16Z")

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> [@Railer13](#):
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> Question for all Dopers who follow this thread:
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> I am considering reading _The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich_ by William Shirer. Is it interesting and worth reading? Too long? Too boring? Let me know your thoughts and opinions, please, and thanks!

I’ve never read the whole thing, although I heard an extended audiobook excerpt recently and thought it was OK. A bit dated. I know **movingfinger** was reading it a few years ago - you may want to ask him or her. I see, from searching for the words “Shirer” and “Reich,” that **4d3fect** , **Horatius** and **Ludovic** have read it, too.

I’ve told this story here before: my sister once lent that book to a friend and, without looking closely at it, stuck in an old bookmark as she did so. The friend later called her, laughing, to report that the bookmark must have been in another, _very_ different book before. My sister had written on it, “This has a wacky cast of characters and is pretty implausible at times, but I think you’ll get some laughs out of it.”

Here’s an old thread that may be of interest: [Shirer's History of the Third Reich](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shirers-history-of-the-third-reich/133019)

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