Saturday, 28 March 2020

Jared Diamond - "Collapse"

Finally started reading it properly. Yes, desperately needs an editor and the personal stories about Montana people... that doesn't work for me. But the Easter Island description is interesting. Hope the remaining chapters will be as well. Thome of a book detailing how past and current civilisations failed. Interesting but he repeats a lot and sometimes lists things up way too long and too much. Also, things he at first admits we cannot know he is certain about a couple of pages later (such as whether the Vikings met the Inuits initially in a friendly or hostile way).