Reviews tagging 'Death'

Sapiens : Une brève histoire de l'humanité by Yuval Noah Harari

8 reviews

andreamhi's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

I started reading this because my therapist lent me this book to help me with my existential crisis and if anything it made it worse, but it was interesting I guess. It was a tough read though, I almost never read nonfiction books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Colonisation, War, and Classism

bronzel's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

Though-provoking, interesting, questionable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Colonisation, and War

_mechita's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense slow-paced

2.25

in one word: traumatic 😀

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, and War

rafacolog's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Colonisation, and War

burnt_milk's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

Overall a really interesting read with a lot to say about our place in the world and especially what we deem "progress". However there was such a rudimentary view of gender even for 2014 - no acknowledgement of intersex people, and while there is some talk about gender roles and differentiating gender from sex, the author avoids talking about trans people, and clumsily uses "he or she" for every example.
I've read in other reviews that there are also a few factual inaccuracies in the text.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Racism, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Fatphobia and Transphobia

karenaerts's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Slavery, Antisemitism, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Torture, Medical content, Trafficking, Car accident, and Abortion

spasqual's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

2.75

I kind of had to force myself through the third quarter of this book. It did get interesting again in the last quarter, but the first half is definitely the most colorful. 

I think Harari’s speculations toward the end will soon become outdated, but it could still be amusing to reflect on for future readers 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, and Genocide

backatthelibrary's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Suicide, and Violence