danie10's review against another edition

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dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

I've enjoyed all of this authors other books I've read but this one was mostly off the topic until I got 65% of the way through. We can't judge animals by human standards in terms of evil behaviour.

Introducing rabbits into Australia was not really evil but maybe more misguided. Similarly other cultures should not be judged by our own standards. 

But despite that it was an interesting and informative book. I did the strategy followed by the US senator near the end if the book certainly mirrors some more recent political behaviour we've seen. That was quite enlightening. 

pidgevorg's review against another edition

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4.0

Overall this was a very interesting book. The first and last chapters are full of weird, unscientific speculation, but once you get past that (skip those chapters, trust me, you won't miss much) both the content and style become excellent.