Ibelieve in the theory that the more unread books I have, the more time I have left to read them in, and so far, my theory has not been proven wrong, although I may be pushing it to let the pile grow to be a hundred. Today I start on Yuval Noah Harari's "Nexus". At almost five hundred pages - of which a hundred are 'Notes' - I may be cutting my life expectancy quite substantially.
Harari wrote such doorstoppers - or treekillers, if you will - as "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" (2014), "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" (2016), and "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" (2018). While I don't agree with everything he writes as he sometimes sacrifices science for sensationalism, his books can’t help but make you feel smarter for having read them and are essential reading for anyone who think about the future - not that there's much left of it for me despite the huge pile.
I checked Wikipedia for some more information on Harari and stumbled over the sentence "Harari is gay, and in 2002 met his husband Itzik Yahav", which explains his contention that "Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so", unless gays learn to procreate.
Before my prejudice becomes too apparent, let me close by saying that I find it a bit disingenuous - that word again! - for lesbian women and gay men to refer to their partners in such sexist terms as "husbands" and "wives" - or are they only indicating who does the washing-up at home?
