Currently reading
Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Tristes Tropiques
Richard III
The Dwarf
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Labyrinths
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Gravity's Rainbow
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
Though I am sympathetic, I found this book to be somewhat less original than Guns; the examples, dealing with small societies, are not (as the author allows) necessarily illustrative of our complex society -- which, admittedly, may be *more* fragile..., as a result of its complexity... as Niall Ferguson has been arguing. And while the emphasis on ecological fragility is certainly plausible, the history of man suggests that -- with a few exceptions (e.g., the 14th cen.) -- it is more often the social and purely *human* aspects that fail.Anyway, I'm glad I've listened to these two books --
(on audible)