This book was pending for long and given the size & content of the book, it took me ~45 days to finish it. Seems like I'm being lazy to take so much time.
The first thing I want to say is that the content is quite heavy and you couldn't just run through the pages. This book needs patience.
Second thing, the book has loads of data from various sources (definitely a great reference). And, you have more options where you want to go from here.
Third thing and I'm not sure how other looked at it, but the book seems to be biased in its totality.
When I started, the data was quite interesting but as I progressed, I realized that most of the data put a particular religion in bad light. Other readers can differ on this point. But after turning the last page it felt like the whole book was more of a propaganda and a biased view rather than putting everything in balance. Huntington is a famous name but there were lot of gaps in presenting the facts. I believe, lots of points were put on the emotional basis rather than backing it by strong facts which ended up portraying rest of the world against Westernization.
One point which I'll like to reiterate here from the book about civilizations' rise and fall. He mentioned that civilizations do fall in the long run and make way for better or worse. Specially, in this case how can anybody judge a civilization. We can't judge it based on the number of wars it had. And definitely, even all good things come to an end.
The book was first published in 1996 and that was a different time, also, I'm not really aware of how many editions with changes have been published since than.
I definitely recommend this book with a word of caution that readers don't get carried away by the tone of the book and have only a lopsided view of the actual scenario.
Peace
The first thing I want to say is that the content is quite heavy and you couldn't just run through the pages. This book needs patience.
Second thing, the book has loads of data from various sources (definitely a great reference). And, you have more options where you want to go from here.
Third thing and I'm not sure how other looked at it, but the book seems to be biased in its totality.
When I started, the data was quite interesting but as I progressed, I realized that most of the data put a particular religion in bad light. Other readers can differ on this point. But after turning the last page it felt like the whole book was more of a propaganda and a biased view rather than putting everything in balance. Huntington is a famous name but there were lot of gaps in presenting the facts. I believe, lots of points were put on the emotional basis rather than backing it by strong facts which ended up portraying rest of the world against Westernization.
One point which I'll like to reiterate here from the book about civilizations' rise and fall. He mentioned that civilizations do fall in the long run and make way for better or worse. Specially, in this case how can anybody judge a civilization. We can't judge it based on the number of wars it had. And definitely, even all good things come to an end.
The book was first published in 1996 and that was a different time, also, I'm not really aware of how many editions with changes have been published since than.
I definitely recommend this book with a word of caution that readers don't get carried away by the tone of the book and have only a lopsided view of the actual scenario.
Peace
