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

2.0

Sapiens starts off strong - I was really engaged in the early sections that discuss the rise of Homo Sapeins amongst the many competing Homo species. Somewhere shortly after I felt like Harari lost the plot and the tone of the book turns into a rant with a lot of wild speculation. I think I would have enjoyed it more if Harari's disdain for Homo Sapiens wasn't so blatantly obvious from the tone of his passages. I stopped reading after the section about the agricultural revolution. He romanticizes our hunter-gatherer ancestors while also casually dismissing the hardships that led them towards an agricultural revolution. I'm giving it two stars because the first ~100 pages was a really fun read.