To: MplsSteve
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Actualy a decent read...It’s trending twoard repeating itself at the moment. I’d give it a solid...”read it if you have nothing better to do on vacation” rating
8 posted on
07/12/2010 10:43:05 AM PDT by
Explodo
(Pessimism is simply pattern recognition)
To: Explodo
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond I thought it was great. Confirmed a bunch of stuff I already believed to be true and opened my eyes to some new things as well.
42 posted on
07/12/2010 10:54:45 AM PDT by
Upstate NY Guy
(Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
To: Explodo
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond I thought it was great. Confirmed a bunch of stuff I already suspected to be true and opened my eyes to some new things as well.
63 posted on
07/12/2010 11:02:17 AM PDT by
Upstate NY Guy
(Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
To: Explodo
Having read both Guns, Germs & Steel and Collapse by Jared Diamond, I will say hi style is verbose.
To sum it up, why say in one page what you can say in 10.
107 posted on
07/12/2010 11:33:32 AM PDT by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: Explodo
Also just finished reading "Guns, Germs and Steel". Found it very interesting/surprising how Jared Diamond's ideas dovetailed with the concept of systemic order as described in Thomas Sowell's "Intellectuals and Society". However you're most definitely correct, there is a bit of repetition in GG&S.
I'm now about a third of the way through "The Illustrious Dead" an epidemiological history of how typhoid halted Napoleon's Russian ambitions.
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