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mk  ·  3474 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's have a conversation! Been a while since we did "what have you been reading lately?"

I just finished Jared Diamond's Collapse on audiobook, and I am just getting going on Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, thanks to wasoxygen.

Collapse wasn't as interesting as Guns, Germs and Steel. Still, I think Diamond gets more flack than he deserves, and there was some good food for thought in it. Also, I previously knew nothing about the failed Viking settlement of Greenland.

I can tell that Cryptonomicon is going to be a good read.

I'll probably go back to Churchill after that. Book four of his five on WWII.