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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
4.0
I learned quite a lot about the history of sapiens that I never would have guessed like culture, religion, technology, etc.
It was very interesting, but fell prey to dry spells, particularly involving the evolution of the economy and capitalism which aren't much my cup of tea. I also struggled a few times because the audiobook and my physical copy edition weren't verbatim to the point were some paragraphs were completely different when compared side by side. It made me get lost often.
If I were to nit-pick content, I became irritated when the audiobook would say Native Indians or Indians to reference Native Americans though my current physical edition had the corrections. I also became frustrated due to the book being very dichotomous in it's explanations of topics that aren't only a dichotomy (man and woman for gender, only husband and wife for marriage, capitalism and communist for ideals, etc). It is hard to fault this book solely on that as it was initially published in 2011 in Israel when trangender/nonbinary, homosexuality, and other topics weren't discussed as openly as they are now.
Overall, the book was very interesting and I'm glad I read it.
It was very interesting, but fell prey to dry spells, particularly involving the evolution of the economy and capitalism which aren't much my cup of tea. I also struggled a few times because the audiobook and my physical copy edition weren't verbatim to the point were some paragraphs were completely different when compared side by side. It made me get lost often.
If I were to nit-pick content, I became irritated when the audiobook would say Native Indians or Indians to reference Native Americans though my current physical edition had the corrections. I also became frustrated due to the book being very dichotomous in it's explanations of topics that aren't only a dichotomy (man and woman for gender, only husband and wife for marriage, capitalism and communist for ideals, etc). It is hard to fault this book solely on that as it was initially published in 2011 in Israel when trangender/nonbinary, homosexuality, and other topics weren't discussed as openly as they are now.
Overall, the book was very interesting and I'm glad I read it.