Educating myself (reluctantly)

I left it to Eddie to decide on a book that I should read, on a subject I've never had any interest in. Turns out there aren't really any subjects that I have no interest at all in - quite a relief to realise - but plenty that I would never want to read a book about. He narrowed it down to these four:

Absolutely none of them appeal. 'What's Left?' appeals even less than the other three. So that's the one I'll be reading.