• Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 hours ago

    i actually adore this. way too many “smart” “learned” “PhD recipients” that i know have considered that sapiens schlock to be a serious work of nonfiction. this puts it in its correct place at the top of a shitheap

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      11 hours ago

      Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a 2011 book by the Israeli military historian Yuval Noah Harari, based on a series of lectures he gave at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It was first published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011, and in English in 2014.

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        9 hours ago

        And this is now more than I previously knew about the book, as a person who at some point had one (thanks to some awful dork).

        Could just never properly crack it open, instant boredom and eye rolls every time. You’ve given me a closure I didn’t realize I needed lol

        • danisth [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          Yeah I added this to my ereader years ago after a friend recommended it enough times that I felt obligated to. Opened it once but couldn’t fight the feeling that it was going to be terrible so never started.