tygaribay 's review for:

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

4.0

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I really liked Harari's first book, "Sapiens", but then I was very disappointed with the 2nd book, "Homo Deus", so I did not really know what to expect from this one. It looked like we were on the well known path where an author is unexpectedly super successful with a first book, so the publisher pushes him to write down anything to publish a follow up. "Homo Deus" was clearly the work of a weekend under pressure of delivery to the publisher. "21 Lessons..." is the obvious 3rd phase of this progression, when the 2nd book is successful enough...publisher screams, "What other words do you have?" This book read like what it is, a compilation of 21 articles and essays from the past. On the bright side, many were written when the author had little pressure and are quite good. Some are obviously recently generated filler. Overall, I enjoyed most of the book and would recommend it to people who are into this sort of thing.