“Homo Deus” is Yuval Noah Harari’s follow up to “Sapiens.” The first book was a brief history of human kind and the second is a brief history of humanity’s future. Harari covers everything from war, famine, and disease, to eugenics, race, sexuality, and identity. No stone is left unexplored, which is both a good and a bad thing. It is easy to get lost in this book – either that means you read and read and read, entranced by the web of interconnected narratives Harari spins, or you read and read and lose any sense of up or down and forget who you are and what you believed before you began reading. I’ll be honest, there were times in this book where Harari lost me. The book is thick and covers so many daunting and heavy-hitting subjects, it can feel like a cinderblock at times. Its full weight will hit you hard if you come unprepared or try to read too much in one sitting. My recommendation: Read each chapter as if it is a separate book. Complete a chapter and put the book down to allow the concepts time to simmer and allow yourself time to decompress. This book requires a clear mind and critical thought. It asks you to look inward to analyze your own beliefs and views about a wide variety of potentially sensitive subjects. The book is worth reading, but requires enough time for reflection. Don’t do yourself a disservice by reading it too fast as I did. Take your time with this one.

Oh, one final note: I loved that whenever Harari was referencing some unnamed third party, he referred to them as a “she.”

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