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A review by cyrce
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell
3.0
The Knowledge came to my attention while listening to CBC radio, specifically an interview Lewis Dartnell gave on the book. The premise intrigued me. How would our world recover from the collapse of civilization? We have so many specializations that there would be major complications if we didn’t have the knowledge needed to rebuild all of the technology we take for granted today. And zombie-apocalypse or no, we need to know how to rebuild if society ever does collapse (called ‘the Fall’ in the book).
When I started reading The Knowledge, I have to admit that I was worried that I would lose interest in it. I haven’t had the best track record when it comes to non-fiction books (university courseware, I blame you for this!). It doesn’t help that I lost interest in The 100 even though I barely got through the first two chapters.
The Knowledge took time to get through, but the information within outlines exactly what one would need immediately after the Fall as well as further on, when trying to rebuild with the limited knowledge we’d have at the time. There were sections of the book I found more intriguing than others, but Dartnell covers the basic needs we would need to kickstart a reboot. There are certain things he could have included but, as he stated in his introduction, this book is not supposed to be a compendium of all our knowledge at this time. It is just the necessities of what we would need.
I liked the book and my struggle through the prose was likely because of all those dry textbooks I have to force myself to read. Hopefully that will go away and I’ll start enjoying non-fiction. It has a massive amount of books dedicated to the subject and sub-divided therein.
When I started reading The Knowledge, I have to admit that I was worried that I would lose interest in it. I haven’t had the best track record when it comes to non-fiction books (university courseware, I blame you for this!). It doesn’t help that I lost interest in The 100 even though I barely got through the first two chapters.
The Knowledge took time to get through, but the information within outlines exactly what one would need immediately after the Fall as well as further on, when trying to rebuild with the limited knowledge we’d have at the time. There were sections of the book I found more intriguing than others, but Dartnell covers the basic needs we would need to kickstart a reboot. There are certain things he could have included but, as he stated in his introduction, this book is not supposed to be a compendium of all our knowledge at this time. It is just the necessities of what we would need.
I liked the book and my struggle through the prose was likely because of all those dry textbooks I have to force myself to read. Hopefully that will go away and I’ll start enjoying non-fiction. It has a massive amount of books dedicated to the subject and sub-divided therein.