Sapiens. Someone gave it to me as a gift. I opened it at random and the first thing I read was the old chestnut about agriculture being a bad deal, because hunter-gatherers have an easy life.
I'd recommend you give it another try. I'm actually 3/4th through Homo Deus, while an acquaintance finished Sapiens and we talked about it. It seems there's some overlap between them. But i found a bunch of new ideas, some recycled ones. It's unlikely you'll find anything groundbreaking in there, but you might find a good logical explanation of things in a consistent and well articulated manner and touch on some things you kinda knew but never really though about.
Ofcourse there's a target audience of liberal, atheists. Since i think his simple dismissing of God, the orthodox religious people might find objectionable.
I'd recommend you give it another try. I'm actually 3/4th through Homo Deus, while an acquaintance finished Sapiens and we talked about it. It seems there's some overlap between them. But i found a bunch of new ideas, some recycled ones. It's unlikely you'll find anything groundbreaking in there, but you might find a good logical explanation of things in a consistent and well articulated manner and touch on some things you kinda knew but never really though about.
Ofcourse there's a target audience of liberal, atheists. Since i think his simple dismissing of God, the orthodox religious people might find objectionable.
You have to keep an open mind and read on, as the argument is more nuanced than that.
That doesn’t count has having read it. That book was incredible, by the way.
It certainly was.