Strangely, I'm kind of sad that I've finished this book. At the same time, I wish it hadn't taken me so long to read. Three weeks isn't that long, but if I'd read it all in a couple of days I would have more to say about it than that it made me think. I should have taken notes, but I got lazy. I was...
This book affected the way that I looked at the world, from a historical perspective, and in every world-building exercise I've ever undertaken for a novel or short story.It literally change my perspective. A must read for anyone who wants to write speculative fiction or understand why it is that s...
Very interesting and worthwhile -- won a Pulitzer. I might have found it difficult to read -- the audible version was abridged, and even then the first half was a bit dry, devoted to paleolithic plant ecology and the like. But then it 'heats' up, so to speak.His basic question is why did Eurasia d...
To be honest, I didn't really know much about this book before I started to read it, so I was surprised to find that it was essentially a college thesis. The writing style is extremely dry, the structure is very much that of an essay, and at times, it can be a real chore to get through this book.Hav...
This book started out OK but it quickly got excessively repetitive to me. I couldn't help but wonder if Diamond was just trying to figure out how many ways he could say the same thing. I mean, sheesh, you've already told us once do we really need to hear it again? The book could have been shorte...
Misleading! The actual title should be Germs, More Germs and a bit about Steel And Guns, but not very much on those last two really...I mean, we want to put Guns first because it's more attention-grabbing than Germs, but let's face it, this book is mostly about Germs. Why has no publishing house kno...
I liked this book, and it taught me a bunch of things I hadn't known before I read it. Jared Diamond has clearly had a more interesting life than most of us, and spent significant amounts of time in a wide variety of different kinds of society, all over the world. He says he got the basic idea from ...
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