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This is a very good book that introduce some rather powerful concepts with interesting examples. Towards the end it gets a little confusing when the author tries too hard to fit reality into his framework, but that's forgivable. The afterwords at the end doesn't really add anything but it is just a few minutes read...

Usual nice writing from Grisham and familiar themes and characters.

Yuval Harari has become my favourite contemporary intellectual. I read Sapiens, listened to him in interviews and podcasts and I was a little afraid in being disappointed by his second book. It did not happen. The book has the same matter of fact tone as Sapiens, makes you think to myriad of aspects of contemporary life that I didn't necessarily consider, at least not explicitly and it is entertaining. The only issue I experienced is that, sometimes, the concepts are presented a little too fast for me to retain them. Maybe I should have taken notes, but it would have removed some enjoyment from the experience.

There is a lot if inventiveness in the infrastructure of the story, that makes the read entertaining. In the end, though, there is also some tiredness and the usual empires and noble people doing political things. I think the world literature has enough space empires, so I'm not going to read the sequel.