Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

What a letdown! Ok... I Loved Yuval Noah Harari's books "Sapiens" and "Homo Deus" so when I saw he had a new one out, I jumped at it. Am not even halfway through but don't think it's even worthy of finishing. It is an exceedingly poorly thought out polemic. I dont mind having my opinions challenged but on any issue I had disagreement stark or nuance, I felt my position misrepresented. He assumes the mindset and beliefs of any group not in line with his often shallow and boringly common in a cartoonish and denigrating simplicity. It's like his agent said "Yuval baby, you're on fire! We need another book stat to ride this wave!" Yuval: "But I have nothing ready, I'm kinda sifting through ideas and..." Agent: "Blah, blah, blah, listen they love you, you're a star! Write anything! Don't be shy! Now I'm gonna lock you in that room and you're not getting out till you hand me 400 pages!" Yuval: "But on what!?" Agent: "I don't care! Now get in there!" Having covered the past in Sapiens and the future in Homo Deus, he must have shrugged his shoulders and thought "OK then, the present. But I'm kinda hungry so let's get this over with..." At which point he went into the room and just channeled the most pedestrian, uncurious shallow, black hat/white hat leftist stream of conciousness drivel imaginable. Expecting to be wowed I was shocked at how many times in the first few hours I was prompted to say out loud "False dichotomy". Equally shocked that in the first half hour, Naseem Taleb's (Of Black Swan fame) phrase IYI ... Intellectual yet idiot, came to mind. It reminds me of a great 60's bands crappy 3rd album that was trash because by then they had exhausted their best ideas and were deep into the "Behind the music" hard core drug addiction, alcoholism and infighting. I pictured even the lamest professor with a passing aquaintance with critical thinking taking a red correcting pen to the pages and running out of ink halfway through. Full of more straw men than a drunk sees when watching the video wall at Best Buy with 30 screens all showing The Wizard of Oz, and so much self contradiction one can only guess the agent bribed the editor to not bother reading it before rushing it to print.. sheesh. Felt like seeing the curtain pulled back on the Wizard of Oz.