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It starts as a worthy successor of Dark Forest, with a good world building and explanations of why humankind behaves the way it does. The story ends a bit too farfetched though, I got a Deus ex Machina feeling from it.

Very practical and very funny. Whether I will apply the techniques/tricks or not, it was fun to listen to them.

Good follow-up of Three Body Problem. I like the world building ideas presented in the book. It is very clear it's a second part of a trilogy, and cannot be read properly before reading part one. It could have been slightly shorter, I think with 15% less text the same book could have been written.

Interesting story. Nothing completely new, but great to hear again. I didn't like the writing style though, he mentioned too often that his opponent was outnumbered and outgunned, like ten times. After three times, you know it, and it starts to get annoying.

A classic. It's written a bit childish, but this is not a bad point of it. It makes it easy to understand. I completed the book in one sitting, something I never do.

Very interesting! There are few books that mix so well up-to-date information (from 2016) with background information. Unfortunately I listened to it on Audible and there was no supporting PDF, so I didn't see the maps themselves, which are actually necessary to understand the story.

I didn't know too much about behavioral economics except the Freakonomics podcasts, and I must say that the author has an engaging way of writing to captivate the audience.

The idea of the book is strong. The beginning as well, but after a while, he is telling more of the same. The chapter about quantum mechanics is painful to read for me as a PhD in it. It's mostly not even wrong, he is making sentences from words that do not even make sense.

This book reads like an encyclopedia, but then a bit more boring.

In general, I love the way she speaks. She is not always super clear, like starting a sentence and then not finishing it. But she knows how to avoid stating cliches (which are true, but not so useful to listen to) by peppering it with tons of examples, mostly from her own life.

He writes history, but gives you new ways to think about it. Why are human rights and ancestor spirits the same thing? Why are pyramids and holidays the same thing? What would make humans happier over time?

The content is good, but especially the way it is written is good. It proves its points using numbers, but in such a way that these numbers are not dull figures, but spring to life!

The author is too presumptuous.

The story is meant to be inspirational, but it achieves the opposite effect. He tells how he neglected his family so many times, how he asks of people to only work work work and how often he was at the brink of bankruptcy, that the only reason I am able to read this book is his luck and survivor bias. I dropped it halfway, I can't take it anymore.