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karuneshkaushal on June 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What is the most mind blowing book you've ...

I read 'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jared Diamond in College and it is single handedly the most insightful book I have ever read.

One of these days I will buy all of Jared Diamond's and Robert Greene's books and read them multiple times.

mrpsbrk on June 7, 2015 [–]

'Guns, Germs and Steel' is pure geographical determinism, dressed up as something else.

cpach on June 7, 2015 | [–]

What is it more specifically that you disagree with in Diamond’s theories?

wolf550e on June 7, 2015 | | [–]

I suggest reading this: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/2vf565/myths_of... and other posts in the AskHistorians SubReddit.

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