A review by jamoeos
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts by Silvia Ferrara

3.0

2.5 stars. This books has a LOT of organizational issues that make it kind of a slog to get through. After skimming the afterword it seems like this disorganization may have been intentional in an attempt at a more lecture-like reading experience, but it didn’t really work for me. The content is interesting, but it fails to clearly describe each of its 9 scripts, and furthermore, these scripts only take up half of the book. The most interesting part is the description of other scripts that take up the second half, but this addition takes away greatly from the main purpose of the book.