David G. Johnson

Disjointed and grasping

Revisado: 01-21-23

Not my cup of tea. Thought it was disjointed and grasping at a theme that doesn’t gel

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Deep Impact

Revisado: 01-13-21

Have you ever read a book and found yourself saying something like, “yeah, what he said”? That’s what this book was for me. The concepts seemed at once, familiar, peaceful and comfortable, yet full of struggle and turmoil, like “Yn and Yang” struggling for dominance. It made me want to be a better person. Thank you
Jordan Peterson.

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Great Book

Revisado: 02-08-20

Oliver deals fantastically with the “what we know and what we believe” conundrum that surely faces all writers of history. I would call it literary integrity; parsing the known from the hypothetical. Yet he does so in such away that does not diminish the imagination and in fact, his attention to this issue only heightens the whole experience. Add a fantastic voice to convey it all and I was enthralled.

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Enough With The Standard Narrative

Revisado: 12-31-19

Nearly 6 hours into the 10 hour book. 6 hours of attempts to debunk the myth of monogamy instead of positing a cogent theory of their own.
6 hours of fun stories about sex among aboriginal tribes and monkeys. Despite the early protestations that these tribes are not to be viewed under the false light of the “noble savage”, this is exactly what the authors do: make noble sex savage out of these tribes as if we should all aspire to live their idyllic sex lives. I will skim through the rest of the book looking for clues to the authors’ thesis, and I truly hope I find one. I bought the book hoping that there would be fresh insights into the current western divorce rate, the current seeming lack of fidelity (which has probably been a societal mainstay in most non-aboriginal communities for thousands of years). However, to date all I hear is why western sexual morays are not consistent with Bonobo monkeys and aboriginal tribes. Thankfully this is one truth upon which I can agree. Instead of giving insight as to how well “non-standard” relationships have worked in our a modern society and how history has brought us here, at least half the book (I’m holding out hope for the second half). How can I write this review then as i have not finished the book? Giving the book the weighted assumption that the second half is focused on setting forth a theory of a more idyllic sexual construct to replace our current adultery-ridden, double standard system, I will amend my review. But man, after 6 hours of condescending narrative and anecdotes about the current horrible state of affairs (not that I don’t largely agree) I gotta ask, “where’s the beef”?

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