From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
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> In article ,
> monte.davis{at}verizon.net says...
>> >Great article in the current Smithsonian Magazine,
"Native Intelligence"
>> >-- brings information that shows the first Thanksgiving in a whole new
>> >light.
>>
>> Extracted from Charles Mann's _1491_, which I'm just finishing.
>> Excellent popular history/anthropology/archeology, enough in the vein
>> of Jared Diamond's books that it ought to do well.
>
> 
> It took me long enough to read "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and
"Collapse:
> How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" to realize I'm not cut out to
> read long, dense (yet engrossing) non-fiction.
>

'Guns, Germs, and Steel' is gathering dust on my bookshelf. I thought the
title intriguing but I just haven't been able to get into it.  Engrossing
but unreadable?

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