Comrade Kvlt’s Reviews > Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies > Status Update

Its getting better for sure but bro like dont act like nobody solved how societies transition epochs, marx/engels discussed this extensively more than a century before this book was released.

Exhibit A of saying less can be more sometimes. Pseudointellectuals need more words to say less.

Just read Crosby's Ecological Imperialism. It makes more, and better points, with less than half the words, and is way more entertaining.

I really struggle to come up with a single positive thing to say about this book, other than... it does gives you *some* decent information and the thesis is sound, but god is he probably the worst historical researcher I've ever read. I'm not even a quarter of the way in and I already lost track of the amount of errors/omissions he has made, not to mention he is not a good writer and doesn't provide citations.

So far pretty much what I expected. Im trying to have an open mind and not be a hater but so far this is just an inferior/lazy sort of pseudoscientific version of Crosby's Ecological Imperialism (not that theres nothing good about GGS!). The introduction yaps on way too much on some beleaguered points that arent necessary and the implication that metallurgy/firearms are important as germs is already turning me off