A review by dee9401
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline

3.0

An interesting read that could have been edited down a bit more. It felt, especially during the first three chapters, to be like a PBS / NatGeo program that kept reiterating the same point over and over again. But, I enjoyed it and wanted to finish it. The ending made it worth it for me, in that he notes that while all societies can and have collapsed in the past, we today can "take steps to fix things, rather than simply passively accept things as they occur" (p. 179). It reminded me of Asimov's Harry Seldon in the Foundation series. Seldon was an historian who realized the galactic empire would collapse but he worked to make the collapse and rebirth of a new empire less painful and shorter in time span.