A review by clay1st
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

4.0

Nice and comprehensive little story about the history of humanity but I disliked the base assertion that all worldviews were fundamentally misguided until we discovered the western scientific method and now we can finally /know/ things to be true within degrees of certainty. I'm no science basher but I thought this underlying narrative harmed the writing in the second half. Also the futurism section at the end of the book is laughable.

I listened to a book by Jeremy Lent (the patterning instinct) immediately afterwards and surprisingly similar but overall, much better.