/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17605311]

Is this the best book about human history?

[Anonymous No.17605335]

>>17605311
Yes, polymath intelectual Piero Scaruffi (pbuh) recommends it.

[Anonymous No.17605493]

>>17605311
It's fucking trash. Read some Cassirer.

[Anonymous No.17605560]

Yeah it’s great.

[Anonymous No.17605575]

>>17605311
It's good. Maybe the first good "NYT best seller" book and I'm not sure how to feel about this. I don't want masses of people to be too redpilled all of a sudden.

[Anonymous No.17605584]

>>17605493
Can I read his stuff as a layman or do I need some prior knowledge of history and philosophy and shit?

[Anonymous No.17605619]

>>17605584
No. It's a straightforward read. Only 'skill' you'd need is to bear in mind that a lot of what he's saying is theory and conjecture.

[Anonymous No.17605848]

>>17605335
shameless self shill, nice one Piero but your not fooling us...

[Anonymous No.17605860]

It's good except for his crappy essay about how hunter-gatherers lived better lives than people did after the agricultural revolution, that part is one big confirmation bias

[Anonymous No.17605867]

It's HECKING AMAZING

[Anonymous No.17606200]

I read Homo Deus and it was cringe. Is Sapiens better?

[Anonymous No.17606208]

kike globohomo core

[Anonymous No.17606210]

>>17606200
Yes but not significantly enough to warrant reading it

[Anonymous No.17606395]

I HECKING LOVE SCIENCE!!

[Anonymous No.17606461]

>>17605335
I haven't been on /mu/ for years, now. But I can't help the urge to mention the fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics, instead, are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers.

[Anonymous No.17606479]

I can't believe this fucking thread. Are you all taking the piss?

[Anonymous No.17606493]

>>17605584
Laymen can’t understand history anyways so why are you bothering?

[Anonymous No.17606502]

>>17606479
Just the usual shilling.

[Anonymous No.17606509]

Why does this book make /lit/ seethe? Is it that good?

[Anonymous No.17606556]

>>17606509
People who read about history don't like pophistory and you know this already.

[Anonymous No.17606587]

>>17606395
low IQ chud

[Anonymous No.17606601]

There is at least one instance of jewish subversiveness in this book, and it already spawned a myth I sometimes come across on twitter:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9dgzj4/is_this_true_when_the_spaniards_first_arrived_in/

[Anonymous No.17606890]

>>17605493
>Cassirer
>Harari
>both jews

[Anonymous No.17607693]

>>17606601
LMAO White people STINK!

[Anonymous No.17607697]

>>17606601
Take your meds.

[Anonymous No.17607720]

>>17607697
are you guys instructed to use this particular phrase or something

[Anonymous No.17607727]

Its a nice little book. Achieves the task it sets out to do. People who criticize it for not being nuanced enough are high on their own farts and try to appear superior at all cost.

[Anonymous No.17607747]

>>17605311
It is good light reading. I wouldn’t consider it “history” though.