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amralsayed0's Reviews (146)
I am speechless. This series is over and as with any good story, it leaves a void in you when you're done.
“We never know what choices will lead to defining moments in our lives. A glance to the left instead of right could define who we meet and who passes us by. Our life path can be determined by a single phone call we make, or neglect to make.”
“We never know what choices will lead to defining moments in our lives. A glance to the left instead of right could define who we meet and who passes us by. Our life path can be determined by a single phone call we make, or neglect to make.”
Fastest novel I've ever read. I already like the concept of humanity conquering death. It is a real page-turner (what is the equivalent of a page-turner for audiobooks? Earworm?
Her story was gut-wrenching to say the least. Almost every chapter in the book sent shivers down my spine as I imagined what it would be like to be in her place. Only the later chapters when I learned she was doing well after escaping to South Korea that drew a smile on my face.
I don't want to spoil anything and I don't dare add to anything she said, so, if you want to know what happens in North Korea and what people like her go through, read this book.
I don't want to spoil anything and I don't dare add to anything she said, so, if you want to know what happens in North Korea and what people like her go through, read this book.
What this book attempts to do is an impressive feat! Human behavior is a very complicated thing and taking one perspective to explaining it will usually be insufficient or just flawed, so Sapolsky attempted to explain it from all possible perspectives and there are a lot of them.
Neurons, hormones, childhood and upbringing, genetics and epigenetics, evolution, game theory, culture and comparative zoology are all different prospective that could be used to explain human behavior and that is what the book does.
I was put off for the longest time by the size of this book (790 pages) but it is that length for a reason. It needs to be that length to come close to explaining something that is as complex as the human behavior. While the book is very well researched, reading it would've been very dull if Sapolsky wasn't a good story teller along with being a scientist. Sapolsky doesn't just throw technical jargon at you but walks you through the explanation with an increasingly simpler terms and words and giving example or citing research when it is needed.
This is THE book to read on Human Behavior
Neurons, hormones, childhood and upbringing, genetics and epigenetics, evolution, game theory, culture and comparative zoology are all different prospective that could be used to explain human behavior and that is what the book does.
I was put off for the longest time by the size of this book (790 pages) but it is that length for a reason. It needs to be that length to come close to explaining something that is as complex as the human behavior. While the book is very well researched, reading it would've been very dull if Sapolsky wasn't a good story teller along with being a scientist. Sapolsky doesn't just throw technical jargon at you but walks you through the explanation with an increasingly simpler terms and words and giving example or citing research when it is needed.
This is THE book to read on Human Behavior
Eye opening to say the least and at times completely shocking. It is baffling how such a huge data gap could exist. At best, this gap goes unnoticed and at worst it is intentionally being created. But if we were to seek a better society, those that have the best intentions at heart should read this book in order to be aware of the implicit biases they have that sometimes affect women negatively on the hope that this would make them less biased in the future.
As with any truth revealing book, I wish everyone would read this book.
As with any truth revealing book, I wish everyone would read this book.
My gripe with this novel is that despite the claim of the unnamed alien who came from a world were rationality and logic is the only thing to live by and humans (to them) are an irrational violent species, the jump from that to embracing human emotions was not very natural and felt forced. There are other novels that did a similar jump more believable and subtle, it could be done. I wish I could just give examples but that would spoil other novels
I'm extremely interested both theoretical physics, astronomy and cosmology and it it broke my heart when I read Stephen Hawking's words "and we haven't yet been able to see a black hole". He passed away 2 years ago and NASA was able to capture an image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy 1 year after his death.
I like everything about this book except the fact that it ended so quickly.
I like everything about this book except the fact that it ended so quickly.
