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anotherpath 's review for:
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
by Paul Kriwaczek
An audiobook I could have skipped, that didn't keep dragging me back to it.
There's a lot of anecdotal evidence spanning several millennium worth of Mesopotamian history. At times you're sprinting through centuries in sentences. There's a lot of whiplash to be had, and I'm not sure what impressions I'm exiting this work with, beyond anecdotes. While it's interesting to note that a slung stone flies at nearly 2/3rds the speed of larger rounds of handgun munition, and that professional slingers were capable of hitting incredibly small moving objects at a distance, I don't know the implications this knowledge has on my life. Except that David brought a gun to a knife fight with Goliath.
It seems like people have been people for a long time. I think that's good.
There's a lot of anecdotal evidence spanning several millennium worth of Mesopotamian history. At times you're sprinting through centuries in sentences. There's a lot of whiplash to be had, and I'm not sure what impressions I'm exiting this work with, beyond anecdotes. While it's interesting to note that a slung stone flies at nearly 2/3rds the speed of larger rounds of handgun munition, and that professional slingers were capable of hitting incredibly small moving objects at a distance, I don't know the implications this knowledge has on my life. Except that David brought a gun to a knife fight with Goliath.
It seems like people have been people for a long time. I think that's good.