Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

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

5 reviews

_mechita's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense slow-paced

2.25

in one word: traumatic 😀

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Rape, Hate crime, Animal cruelty, Genocide, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, and War

jlautry's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

This was a book about humankind. From inception to current day. It discusses every aspect of being human that you could think of. From brain and physical development and social structures, to war, money, and politics. I think I learned more from this book than I did from any history or social studies class in school.

The first part of the book really sucked me in. This surprised me because I have a hard time reading and staying interested in non-fiction books. But parts 1, 2, and 3 really held my interest. The author discusses multiple theories about humankind throughout the book and talks about the likelihood of each, which I thought was interesting. 

The book lost me towards the end when I got into the Industrial Revolution and Politics. Those topics just don’t seem to interest me as much. So, full disclosure, I mostly skimmed most of the last couple of parts of the book. Something I didn’t like about the book is it made assumptions about the reader’s knowledge level of certain people and historical events. I had to do a fair amount of Googling who this was and what that was. 

If you are religious in any way (I am), know that the author is not. However, he does go into the history of many religions and the contributions (good and bad) that came from it. I particularly liked this part and found it really interesting to learn more about other spiritual beliefs other than my own. 

This has nothing to do with the content of the book, but I think it’s worth mentioning. This book is REALLY heavy. Like, physically heavy. This was probably my least favorite thing about reading the book was my arms and wrists would literally start hurting if I sat reading it too long. 

Overall, for a non-fiction book, I really liked it and I learned a lot of history that I didn’t know before. I think it’s a worthwhile read!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Genocide, Slavery, and War

lanid's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Genocide, Racism, Religious bigotry, Slavery, and War

karenaerts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Slavery

Minor: Ableism, Abortion, Addiction, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, Suicide, Torture, and Trafficking

maureenocal's review against another edition

challenging funny informative sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death