Review of '21 Lessons for the 21st Century' on 'Goodreads'
2.0 stars
I cannot understand the hype about Harari. As the old saying goes: the book is both good and original. Sadly, the good bits aren't original and the original parts aren't any good.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a book written by bestseller Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari and published in August 2018 by Spiegel & Grau in the US and by Jonathan Cape in the UK. It is dedicated to the author's husband, Itzik. Having dealt with the distant past in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) and with the distant future in Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), Harari turns in 21 Lessons his attention to the present. In a loose collection of essays, many based …
