seaweed's reviews
28 reviews

Quite enlightening, but the style is both meandering (tangents on semi-related topics are omnipresent) and repetitive. Overall, provides a great overview how  succès de scandale (a phrase that is repeated at least 10 times, which is how I learned it) that ends up creating classics, deemphasizes the points of contention within the controversial texts in order to fit them into a pantheon of "universal themes". 
Also, the author speaks French and will make sure that no readers ever dare forget that.

Very homogenous. 40 essays by 40 people felt more like 5 works written by 5 singular individuals. 

not strong enough

An entirely unnecessary book. Sapiens makes 95% of ideas discussed redundant, and, even worse, the book is made redundant to itself through pointless examples which are used to pad the page count.  The rest it spent  misrepresenting the articles it cites or using them to reach batshit conclusions - at least those concerning life sciences, the spokesperson of which Yuval declared himself for some reason. I cannot judge his historical expertise, but, considering a passage in Chapter 11, where he implies that scientific journals pay the authors instead of the other way around (current Article Processing Charge in Nature, for example, is €9.500), I have my doubts. 

For a book titled "ABC of Anarchism", it sure does not talk a lot about Anarchism. It does, instead, repeat the same text with a bit of paraphrasing over and over again.
The author does a good job to convince that the current system is corrupt (which it is), but doesn't provide a solid alternative. So if you already doubt the current way of life, you can give it a pass.