Wooooohoooooooo! "Guns Germs and Steel" (which you neglected to name but which was instantly recognizable to me) is one of the best books I've read in the past ten years. Fascinating stuff, and doubly so if you're someone who (like me) has occasional delusions of world-creation/sf-f writing.
Sadly, his recent book "Collapse" isn't nearly as readable. I gave up on it about 1/3 of the way through, and I almost never give up on a book once I've started it.
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Date: 2005-07-08 09:27 pm (UTC)Sadly, his recent book "Collapse" isn't nearly as readable. I gave up on it about 1/3 of the way through, and I almost never give up on a book once I've started it.