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charliegrayson 's review for:
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
adventurous
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I tend to agree with some of the published critiques i've seen of this book. It's typically along the lines of saying that this book has a regular occurence of flashy assertions without enough scientific backup for their relevance, at times I wasn't sure that I understood the point being made or if I did and it just didn't hold enough weight. I will say this style of writing is great for speaking to a general audience, generally people like flash! But it's important to balance that with fact and I do think Harrari made a reasonable effort here to at least be clear about when an idea was being posed vs a fact. I guess I was hoping for a higher percentage of fact. Despite this, throughout this book I found Harari posing thought provoking concepts and reading this was a good opportunity for thinking about the world/society/history on a large scale.