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jerushae's review against another edition
Read about a quarter of this, then skimmed another quarter. Then it was due back at the library and I decided I was okay with that.
While I liked the breakdown of time and how people have evolved socially, the writing was a weird mix of dense and light. Probably a great read for someone really interested in this subject matter.
And because I like an opportunity to quote Marcel the Shell: brief? “Compared to what!?”
While I liked the breakdown of time and how people have evolved socially, the writing was a weird mix of dense and light. Probably a great read for someone really interested in this subject matter.
And because I like an opportunity to quote Marcel the Shell: brief? “Compared to what!?”
dominguezraquel95's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
It’s hard to decide what I liked least about this book: the casual white supremacy (slavery was purely economic not racist), the deeply condescending tone, the frequent orientalism, the grandiose arguments made by speculation, the almost total lack of citations, the frankly boring cynicism about humans, or the obvious cherry-picking to fulfill his delusional techno-optimism. I’m not surprised this book appealed to so many people who don’t have a science background (it’s an attractive premise!) but if you think critically about even a portion of the content it becomes unbearable. Although the first half or so was very interesting (even when the conclusions were outrageous) I had to skim the last 25% to get to the end.
arf88's review against another edition
4.0
I'm not educated enough on the subject to know if Harari is entirely accurate in everything he says in this book. But being not that educated on the subject I also found this book very informative, engaging and fascinating. Harari was able to make a very readable book that also makes you think. I'll definitely be picking up more of his work in the future.
twntyonedoctors's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5