Hands down the best book I read this year which includes classic like –The Old Man and the Sea, biography of the most influential innovator of 21st century Elon Musk: Inventing the Future or best selling sci-fi like The Three-Body Problem and Cryptonomicon. Sapiens tops among all of them.
This is a brilliant book and so is Harari’s story telling. How do you write a book on thousands of years of history and still make it complete, not rushed and satisfying – Sapiens is that experience for you. It is a tale of the journey of an insignificant species among the millions of others living in a small part of Africa and how it took over the world in mere seventy thousands years, eradicated all other superior human species, changed the ecology of the world and became the godly creature on earth. It is about ‘us’ – Homo Sapiens the last species of Human.
Harari’s narration of this journey is full of fascinating facts, intriguing philosophies, thought provoking, inspiring human achievements and sometimes scary visuals of human’s heinous acts.
His interpretation of several important milestones of human history is just wow. Be it the need of Cognitive revolution or how Agriculture revolution is the biggest con in entire human history. I was amazed with his interpretation of imaginary orders, how imaginary orders like religion, nation, states, races are nothing but an attempt to bring the humans under one command, to make them follow one rule and how it has actually helped us to shape our whole society. Even today without these imaginary order we’ll surely fall apart. These concepts might not be his own but just to read all of them at one place was great.
Each chapter or I should say each paragraph can itself be a book. But the information present is enough to indulge you.
This is one of the books after finishing which I have felt satisfied, it was worth my time and a must read for every “Homo Sapiens”.
My Rating: 
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