Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari | Read by Derek Perkins | Penguin Audiobooks

It's amazing how quickly all the dates given have changed since this was published in 2011.

Wawww 😮 what a Lot of parents we have ..amazing and excellent book really 🌟

Stunning, Derek👍

Harari's popular writings are considered to belong to the Big History genre, with Ian Parker writing in 2020 in the New Yorker that "Harari did not invent Big History, but updated it with hints of self-help and futurology, as well as a high-altitude, almost nihilistic composure about human suffering."[1] His work has been more negatively received in academic circles, with Christopher Robert Hallpike stating 2020 in a review of Sapiens that: "one has often had to point out how surprisingly little he seems to have read on quite a number of essential topics. It would be fair to say that whenever his facts are broadly correct they are not new, and whenever he tries to strike out on his own he often gets things wrong, sometimes seriously." Hallpike further states that: "we should not judge Sapiens as a serious contribution to knowledge but as 'infotainment', a publishing event to titillate its readers by a wild intellectual ride across the landscape of history, dotted with sensational displays of speculation, and ending with blood-curdling predictions about human destiny. By these criteria, it is a most successful book."[62] In 2020, philosopher Mike W. Martin, criticized Harari's view in a journal article, stating that "[Harari] misunderstands human rights, inflates the role of science in moral matters, and fails to reconcile his moral passion with his moral skepticism."[63] In July 2022, American magazine Current Affairs published an article titled "The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari" by Darshana Narayanan, pointing to the lack of scientific rigor in his books. "The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker," she wrote. "But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors."[64] In November 2022, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called Harari a historian and a brand. They pointed out that the Yahav Harari Group, built by his partner Yahav, was a "booming product cosmos" selling comics and children's books, but soon films and documentaries. They observed an "icy deterministic touch" in his books which made them so popular in Silicon Valley. They stated that his listeners celebrated him like a pop star, although he only had the sad message that people are "bad algorithms", soon to be redundant, to be replaced because machines could do it better. (wikipedia)

The introduction was very sibilant, but the actual reading of the book is fantastic!

my check point

great work of audio recording! good articulation

like this approach..summery of book..that too audio..best 1 in 4his eta

Thanks for a fantastic audio. Where is the link to continue the reading/listening?

well read 👌

good work

the audiobook isn't available in Canadian audible. Where else can I findi it?

Great

Where is the full book

omg yaaaas

Not too bad, a slight air of reading-out-the-train-timetable about it.

Hogwash and no mention of the annunaki geneticists intervention

Yuval strikes me as evil on steroids

what accent is that?

Why does he pronounce “Aluminium” wrong? He is British but uses the incorrect American term