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Re:Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018? by WheelsAtLarge on Saturday December 22, 2018 @11:22PM (#18744413)
"Sapiens," is extraordinary on how well it summaries the human journey through time from the start. It never gets too technical but it's highly informative. It's 500+ pages yet it's hard to put down because it's so entertaining. I highly recommend it.
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018? by tpudlik on Sunday December 23, 2018 @12:15AM (#18744573)
This is all true, but I sometimes missed the nuance of less witty but more detail-oriented histories. Harari could seem flippant at times, which mostly amused me when I agreed with him, but left me worried when I didn't. In a book this short on a period so vast, there was no space to steelman anything.
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