»Uncommon Grounds

I have read several books, fiction and non-, about coffee, and Mark Prendergast's Uncommon Grounds is not only the lengthiest, it is undoubedly the dullest. Clocking in at around six million pages and zero fact checkers (his chronology and vocabulary are especially error-prone), I do not think I am going to finish the book. I read the first 120 agonizing pages, and then skipped around to check out pieces that especially interested me, such as the genesis of Peet's and of Starbucks.