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A review by joanne_is_from_canada
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
2.0
I literally had this staring at me on my "currently-reading" shelf from May until November which may be a new record for me. The first chapter or two was so difficult to get through that I seriously debated just giving it up as I don't lack for things to read, but I just find it so difficult to do that. So instead I put it aside on my night stand and occasionally looked at it while picking up anything else to read.
Finally I guilted myself into just getting on with it just this month, and even though I was probably less than a quarter of the way in, I tried to read at least a chapter a day and found it was not nearly as dry and difficult once I got going. I did actually start to semi-enjoy it by the time I got well into the book, but I am definitely glad I'm finished.
This book did have some interesting things to say on how most of our virtues and vices have some sort of counterpart in the animal kingdom and we are not quite as unique as we like to think.
Finally I guilted myself into just getting on with it just this month, and even though I was probably less than a quarter of the way in, I tried to read at least a chapter a day and found it was not nearly as dry and difficult once I got going. I did actually start to semi-enjoy it by the time I got well into the book, but I am definitely glad I'm finished.
This book did have some interesting things to say on how most of our virtues and vices have some sort of counterpart in the animal kingdom and we are not quite as unique as we like to think.