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Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2017? by atulatul on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @10:51AM (#15960982)
Would you care to add a few lines about Sapiens? Plan to read it. But only tentatively.
Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2017? by alexwilde on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:07AM (#15961146)
Sapiens opened my eyes to social constructs and human behavior and forced me to think about the vast timeline of humanity and how small our time is within it. Personally it provoked a re-visit to the philosophical questioning of life.
Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2017? by atulatul on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:38AM (#15961413)
Thanks.
Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2017? by gadders on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:06AM (#15961135)
How would you read it tentatively? Just a couple of pages at a time and then stop?
Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2017? by atulatul on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:37AM (#15961406)
:) I was rather hoping that reading a single page (instead of a couple of pages) and then stopping would qualify.

Anyway, what I meant was that the plan was tentative. (I have read Guns, Germs and Steel and a few reviews seemed to liken Sapiens to that book. So was looking for some other perspectives.)