The End is Always Near

I wanted to like this book, but somewhere between the not-very-connected chapters and the overexaggerated title the book failed to deliver. The chapters are very thorough in what they cover, but there's very little linking one to the next, and I honestly felt a few of them were extremely dry. I liked the section on the Bronze Age in the beginning and the sections about nuclear war at the end, but the middle sort of dragged on. It also seemed to tackle topics a mile wide but only an inch deep in terms of content, which left me with more questions that went unanswered.

In short, kind of underwhelming.