Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond is a book that is grueling, boring, and repetitive. I also don't think the book should have any other word but Germs in it. That is what the book is about, plain and simple, germs in regards to humans, germs in regards to plants, animals, and germs brought from one group of humans to the next. While the book seemed to have promise within the summary as well as the prologue, it became quite clear very quickly that it was anything but interesting. 
 While I applaud Diamond's efforts in his research to put this book together, the fact that this reads like one big scientific paper really just kills it. I am not saying that Diamond should not speak as an academic, I felt that he spoke too much so which can lead to a loss of interest to those who are not in interested in just reading their history professor's lecture.