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T Roosevelt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 09:12 PM
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Has anybody read Collapse by Jared Diamond?
Collapse by Jared Diamond or his previous book Guns, Germs, and Steel? I was browsing Borders and saw this on the shelf. Wondering how it is...
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NWHarkness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 11:09 PM
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1. Haven't read Collapse yet
Bur GG&S is a brilliant book, extremely insightful.
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wiggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 11:10 PM
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2. Didn't read Collapse, but...
....Guns, Germs, and Steel is wonderful and interesting.

If you are interested in how peoples came to be where they are and why, this book is a must read. Fascinating how simple the reasons are why one group was able to thrive, able to dominate another group, migrate successfully to other areas, or create civilizations. A lot of it interestingly comes down to what plants and animals were available to a fledgling settlement.....
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-01-05 11:32 PM
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3. Read "Guns, Germs and Steel"
EXCELLENT and very thought provoking. Read part of "the third chimpanzee", but got really depressed by it, so I had to put it down.
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