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Sapiens: Een kleine geschiedenis van de mensheid by Yuval Noah Harari

legacy_break3's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

griffinbrown's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

3.75

hannah_wm's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

ovenbird_reads's review against another edition

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3.0

too much of a sapiens 101 overview for me. a few novel ideas but a pretty standard look at human history for the most part. would be great for people investigating this topic for the first time but I stopped half way through when I realized I wasn't going to get anything I hadn't encountered before.

zephyr88's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

john_9_ross's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

4.5

tjreed15's review against another edition

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informative fast-paced

5.0

robotnyk's review against another edition

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informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

bababookmatt's review against another edition

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challenging funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.25

daveydundo's review against another edition

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2.0

Sapiens starts off strong - I was really engaged in the early sections that discuss the rise of Homo Sapeins amongst the many competing Homo species. Somewhere shortly after I felt like Harari lost the plot and the tone of the book turns into a rant with a lot of wild speculation. I think I would have enjoyed it more if Harari's disdain for Homo Sapiens wasn't so blatantly obvious from the tone of his passages. I stopped reading after the section about the agricultural revolution. He romanticizes our hunter-gatherer ancestors while also casually dismissing the hardships that led them towards an agricultural revolution. I'm giving it two stars because the first ~100 pages was a really fun read.