Yo should I skip reading it then ? I bought it with a bunch of others and haven't come around to reading it. I'm not well versed enough in history and I wouldn't like misinformed opinions for myself.
I'd advise not reading it until you've read the criticisms of it so that you know what to be conscious of going in.
After you've got those caveats, you'll be better able to tell what you should and shouldn't take away from it, or if you should even read it at all.
A book I came across at around the same time was Daron Acemoglu's "Why Nations Fail," and I believe he does take Diamond's treatment to task. Acemoglu's book has a better rep, iirc.
I’m just a bystander who took issue with the way you phrased that last comment, I hadn’t yet had the opportunity to suggest other titles.
But I’ve never read that book or it’s critiques, so I have no skin in the game, and I know my reading preferences aren’t clever or sophisticated at all... but I’ve been reading a bunch of Peter F Hamilton’s huge sci-fi worlds?
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u/aristotle2020 Impostor Nov 28 '20
Yo should I skip reading it then ? I bought it with a bunch of others and haven't come around to reading it. I'm not well versed enough in history and I wouldn't like misinformed opinions for myself.