/lit/ - Literature

Is pic related worth reading or is it a waste of time?

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I remember reading GEB in high school or college and enjoying it as a light read.

Guns Germs and Steel is completely toxic to normies because it cherry picks to give a simplistic version of world history filtered through the lens of modern far left academics.

What are some good non-fiction books you've read recently?

Can someone explain the most common critique of this book that I hear? They argue that the book doesn't take into account human agency but that just seems like a retarded criticism. If you take it as given that humans are genetically similar enough across the globe so that it shouldn't make a difference in human development, then the only explanation for differences has to be geography. What other explanation is there? You could argue that this just ignore the choices that people of these societies made but these choices were influenced by the situation so it all goes back to geography in the end. Am I missing something obvious?

I didn't know whether to post this here or /his/. Since this is about a particular book I decided here. Lemme know if I should have posted on /his/.

ITT: Quintessential midwit books

Should I?

So is this book relevant or not? It keeps being brought up in media but apparently Jared Diamond doesn't know what he's talking about?