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Favourite books?

hypercolius

Hi, I wanted to start this thread to share what our favourite books are!

Here are mine:

Favourite overall: Life and Death: Twilight reimagined (Meyer). I love romantic novels. Love, theoretically was also excellent as was Love hypothesis :) 

Favourite non-fiction: Assyria: The rise and fall of the world's first empire (Frahm). This caused a massive, obsessive hyperfocus on learning about Assyria when I'm just an astrophysicist!

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  • I’ve never been able to reread books but I like books that change your perspective or aid you to see things in a different light. I read three books in a series during lockdown that opened my eyes a lot. They were by Yuval Noah Harari, the first in the trio is called Sapiens followed by Homo Deus and lastly 21 Lessons. The books topics cover the very beginnings of humanity and religions to technology and what may lay ahead for the future of humanity referring to AI especially. 

  • in reply to Autismman

    Oh, Sapiens. 

    It is a good book. I just felt it wasn't for me since it didn't mention the Toba catastrophe theory or the disaster in 535-536 CE. But good nonetheless!

    Is there anything from this book you particularly enjoyed? 

  • in reply to hypercolius

    Sapiens is good and vogently written but it could be the writer is a little too sold on the idea that our species is that war like and destructive. Recently I read a non academic who nevertheless did her homework and raised the idea again that Gimbutas may have been right about humans having been more peacefully matriarchal in the beginning. 

  • in reply to Nexus11

    Thank you for that, I think we forget we are part of the animal kingdom and a lot more goes into our choices than conscious thought and acting out those thoughts. Obviously different levels of hormones between the species play a role too. We are much more advanced than our chimpanzees cousins thankfully but the movies like planet of the apes are a frightening play on those fears that we are not so different after all. 

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  • in reply to Nexus11

    Thank you for that, I think we forget we are part of the animal kingdom and a lot more goes into our choices than conscious thought and acting out those thoughts. Obviously different levels of hormones between the species play a role too. We are much more advanced than our chimpanzees cousins thankfully but the movies like planet of the apes are a frightening play on those fears that we are not so different after all. 

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