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So much to ponder in this book. From our humble beginnings to where we are now and where we may end up in the future and how we got there, through our stories and fantasies and our common understanding of these stories we tell ourselves. Because that is what we are good at. I wanted to underline every page and regretted reading this in hard copy because it's easier to take notes from kindle highlights - but you live, you learn.
I ended up photographing many pages that I have read out loud to peo ...more
I ended up photographing many pages that I have read out loud to peo ...more
A giant ambition middlingly executed at best which ended up becoming a coffee table bestseller of sorts. In the end, its liable to leave people either awed by the ambition of the weighty title OR rather confused as to how the facts in the first of book gel in with the odd & bizarre rants against the advent of agriculture and victim blaming (Incas/Aztecs) in the second half.
My Rating - 3/5
My Rating - 3/5
For the first 25% or so of the book I was enthralled. Then, the editorial content began to far outweigh the nonfiction component.
I understand that a book like this obviously needs to include some speculation, theory and conjecture. But the author did not make it work.
I found myself rapidly scanning sections just to get through.
I understand that a book like this obviously needs to include some speculation, theory and conjecture. But the author did not make it work.
I found myself rapidly scanning sections just to get through.
This is a tour de force in disruptive thinking. It consistently reframed common topics in entirely different ways, it was an absolute intellectual delight.
It is not simply a ‘history of mankind’. It is a bold attempt to distill and abstract-ify? everything that has happened ever.
It is not simply a ‘history of mankind’. It is a bold attempt to distill and abstract-ify? everything that has happened ever.
Jul 09, 2018
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