READING BOOK REVIEW: "Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind by Y.N. Harari"

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The way author tells us this amazing story is as natural as the way we live life. Possibly it is the best story ever existed because this is the only story that exists. The History of Human beings. All other stories including the imaginary ones are just perplexed with this one because they lived in our mind before were brought to reality. This mutual story about all of us exists in our memory and traits we inherent from each other through generations. (Omg, maybe I should make those intros to Discovery or BBC TV-shows).

The first and the best thing to start with is to say I’m not going to periphrase in any possible way the words author has already put, so we won’t be speaking about the plot. Besides, we know some parts of it from our casual life and books we were taught by at school. There are tons of disputes on whether this or that fact in world history is true and history might be one of the most ambiguous subjects. However, there are facts in history and general things people agreed on and obliged to share with new generations. These not-so-many facts and generalizations help the author to build a time-machine for us. As you go through the pages you can see in a magnificent picturesque view of five, ten and hundred years passing by with all the neseccary details. He is not to teach some or another way of past things in a particular direction, he is with readers to ask questions.

We always see not only history but a reality in multiple of variations. Nowadays our history becomes more and more complicated as we get to know more and more facts which were either concealed by elites previously or just were unexplored. Everyone who teaches or talks about history should be ready to meet these hardships - different perspectives and points of other people. However it is not new to the history as a science, the modern world dictates new speed with its availability to transmit information.The fact is that a human being is the most “influential” animal in a worst meaning possible. For hundreds of years of evolution we have been completely changed the biosphere we live in. Our story tells us about ourselves in the most observable way possible by not looking at things only in a black-and-white tones. Finally, the book is fascinating because of its unpredictability (I thought I knew all the spoilers) and details many of us know but don’t concentrate attention on.

This was written by Anton Elenin


DISCUSSION:
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