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Topic: Return of the Book Thread (Read 1310727 times)
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Samwise
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Some years back I read "Sapiens", which I forget if I posted about here, but anyway if you enjoyed that you might also enjoy "Hunt, Gather, Parent," which of the many parenting books I've read is the only one that I could see being interesting to non-parents.
Similar to "Sapiens", a central thesis running through it is that the way we're living (in industrialized societies) isn't anything like the way we evolved to live over the hundred thousand years before the invention of agriculture, and there are a bunch of associated costs that we don't necessarily think about much. A big takeaway I had from it was "maybe a lot of people in this country are self-centered assholes because we've spent a few generations using parenting methods that tend to raise people to be self-centered assholes?"
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Samwise
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Having a subway commute once again gives me a nice little chunk of reading time each day, so I've finished the first "3 Body Problem" book and have the next two waiting on my shelf. I liked the series, but I liked the book more. Nothing really radically different in terms of the overall story but the book just has that much more time to flesh out its characters and concepts. Would recommend.
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