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A review by anteus7
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
5.0
I really enjoy reading things that challenge what I have learned in the past. This book did a lot of that.
Sapiens has been on my radar for a long time, but I never seemed to get around to it. I recently read a book called The Dawn of Everything (which was way over my head in a number of ways--I just don't have the depth of anthropological background to get some of the references, I think) that mentioned this book, so I decided to read it next. I wish I had read it before The Dawn of Everything!
Harari's style is accessible. He is dry and witty, knowledgable without being pedantic, and clear. He does, for my taste at least, a great job of weaving multiple disciplines together: history, sociology, economics, anthropology. He does this in a way that remains accessible.
This is a book that has made me think a lot about our own cultural evolution and where we may be headed in the future. In the last part of the book, Harari engages in some speculation which I also appreciated. Nothing like a good 'what if?'
Sapiens has been on my radar for a long time, but I never seemed to get around to it. I recently read a book called The Dawn of Everything (which was way over my head in a number of ways--I just don't have the depth of anthropological background to get some of the references, I think) that mentioned this book, so I decided to read it next. I wish I had read it before The Dawn of Everything!
Harari's style is accessible. He is dry and witty, knowledgable without being pedantic, and clear. He does, for my taste at least, a great job of weaving multiple disciplines together: history, sociology, economics, anthropology. He does this in a way that remains accessible.
This is a book that has made me think a lot about our own cultural evolution and where we may be headed in the future. In the last part of the book, Harari engages in some speculation which I also appreciated. Nothing like a good 'what if?'