A review by statman
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

3.0

I had previously read, Jared Diamond earlier book "Guns, Germs and Steel" and found it to be fascinating. So I decided to try this one and I thought it was good. Diamond is a very good writer and can make the archaeology and anthropology interesting. I enjoyed the beginning two thirds of the book which discussed various historical societies, like Easter Island, the Vikings and the Maya. I particularly enjoyed the portions about the Anasazai (because I've seen a lot of their ruins living in Arizona) and the Dominican Republic (because Jeni has a lot of cool mission stories about that area). The last third turned more into a rant against population growth and doomsday predictions of how our world today will collapse, just like these earlier societies did.