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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
by Heather E. Heying, Bret Weinstein
DID NOT FINISH
DNF
After hearing one of the authors read a section of this book in a YouTube video, I went to my local library and requested it as an inter library loan. I intended to read it in an attempt to understand a point of view different than my own.
Perhaps I was not the target audience of this book but it was incredibly dry and difficult to get into with the very academic language and overuse of big words. Every chapter I felt like the authors were on the cusp of making their point and then I’d get frustrated that they hadn’t.
In essence, all I got from this book was that the authors didn’t take their child to the doctor after breaking his arm and made him go on five mile hike the next day and a couple weeks later the arm was perfectly healed after only using a splint for awhile.
I have never taken so long to read a book and I have never not finished a book but this was not for me.
After hearing one of the authors read a section of this book in a YouTube video, I went to my local library and requested it as an inter library loan. I intended to read it in an attempt to understand a point of view different than my own.
Perhaps I was not the target audience of this book but it was incredibly dry and difficult to get into with the very academic language and overuse of big words. Every chapter I felt like the authors were on the cusp of making their point and then I’d get frustrated that they hadn’t.
In essence, all I got from this book was that the authors didn’t take their child to the doctor after breaking his arm and made him go on five mile hike the next day and a couple weeks later the arm was perfectly healed after only using a splint for awhile.
I have never taken so long to read a book and I have never not finished a book but this was not for me.