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Alice Abbass mab2asser4e67 — I read this book after Guns, Germs, and Steel and feel that this was an excellent progression. GGS first discusses how societies succeed and why the cards have fallen they way they did. In Collapse, Jared discusses how societies fail. One of the best parts of the book is in the introduction where Jared states that he assumed that all collapses were because of, or primarily driven by, environmental issues. However, in the course of his studies in preparing for the book, he found out that this was not true and that collapses were just as complex as build ups, and developed a set of factors. This really helps the reader build confidence in Jared's book later as you can rest assured that the book is not a clear-cut political agenda. This book primarily serves as a warning: there are a lot of causes for collapse and a collapses means the total annihilation of a society, or at least and incredible drop in that society's standard of living. Again, Jared handles the discussion of very advanced, scientific topics with skill: there are no confusing scientific terms used to confuse the reader, instead the focus is on accessibility. Some topics include soil formation and erosion, wars, trade routes, natural disasters, etc. I strongly recommend this book, especially to readers who enjoy GGS.

Marcel Olczyński olczynski — one of the few books i've read multiple times. i wrote this review of it for the peace corps newsleter: Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible is a classic piece of African historical fiction, chronicling a missionary family’s move to the Belgium Congo during the 1960’s and 70’s. Set on the backdrop of Patrice Laurent’s Marxist revolution, the CIA’s successful coup, and the installation of figurehead president Kabila, Kingsolver tells the poignant story of a family and country facing their own demons. This book encapsulates the essence of why I read. I read for motivation and inspiration — eager to be pushed out of my comfort zone and challenged by social injustices and society’s inequalities. Kingsolver, herself has written, “art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring our ability to feel for another.” The power of (good) fiction is its ability to create empathy, lifting you away from your chair and stuffing you down inside someone else’s point of view. Novels differ drastically from newspapers, which impart information while allowing you to remain rooted in your own perspective. A newspaper could tell someone that millions have been raped and slaughtered over the course of the bloody Congolese civil war, and that someone may think to herself, “what a tragedy,” and then turn the page to check the ten-day forecast. But, a story tells you more; it brings you into the fold of someone else’s reality, dropping you at the intersection of the mundane and the humane. And sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, you begin to feel the sorrow in your soul of a father burying his daughter. Page by page, chapter by chapter, you begin to feel the ache in your bones of a mother rebuilding her pillaged hut. Stories give shape and substance, meaning and understanding to the heartbreaking wars and conflicts in Africa, not newspaper statistics. And, it is this storytelling, which Kingsolver has excelled and which The Poisonwood Bible becomes the masterpiece.