Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Sonky - GoodreadsI'll be lucky to get through the introduction. Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Daniel Solera - GoodreadsCollapse is a series of detailed profiles of various societies, both ancient and modern, and the factors that led to their breakdown. Although there are a few success stories mentioned, author Jared ... Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Alice Lee - GoodreadsThis book took a bit of effort to read just because it is so densely packed with information. It is excellently written, however, and is completely read-able and thoroughly enjoyable. Diamond, besides ... Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Kathryn - GoodreadsI had read somewhere, back after this book was published in 2005, that it was not the equal of Jared Diamond's previous book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (published in 1999 ... Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Michael - GoodreadsLike his best-selling earlier book, "Guns, Germs and Steel," Jared Diamond has written a long, dense, often repetitive book that is nonetheless both fascinating and informative. In "Collapse," Diamond ... Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Rebecca Huston - GoodreadsA book that I heartily recommend to anyone who wants to see why things happen in a culture the way that they do. It's an understandable and very informative read. Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Aneel - GoodreadsTedious. I was hoping for a more coherent book, but this is a collection of lists and personal anecdotes. Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Eric Hines - GoodreadsA real disappointment for me, having loved two of Diamond's previous books. The central idea: that ecological collapse is possible has happened before and may happen to us is important, but Diamond ... Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Jeff Carnegie - GoodreadsLike "Guns, Germs, and Steel" this book is well written but flawed in its assumptions. In this case, he takes a very Malthusian viewpoint which is to say that a society expands until all its resources ... Read full review
Review: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
User Review - Murray Stokely - GoodreadsPicks up on some of the similar themes to Jared Diamond's earlier books such as the better, slightly shorter pulitzer-prize winning tome Guns, Germs, and Steel. Diamond looks at the proximate causes ... Read full review
