Homo Deus

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Homo Deus - means Man God.
I found it quite interesting - the author of the book declares himself an atheist and many times mentions that God does not exist.
So what about Man God - does he/she exist only in half?
The book reflects quite well this incompatibility of ideas used in the title.
Firstly the author tries to summarize all dimensions of human being in few hormones and DNA connections. They all can be easily controlled and ensure eternal biological life in total happiness.
Basically it exhausts the subject of the book so it could have been finished after the first chapter.
For some reason author continues the story for another 10 chapters and comes to a conclusion - there is no reason for further existence of humans.
Quite logical - if the is no God then there is no space for Homo Deus.


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The Mother

The Mother by Jane Caro
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I admired Jane's Caro books about Queen Elisabeth I, so this book was bit of a shock.
From the very beginning I did not feel comfortable in the company of characters presented in the book. 

Firstly - childhood of Miriam, then her constant concern with her own feelings and behaviour. Even her marriage to Pete looked a bit unclear to me.
Then marriage of Ally and Nick. Firstly I could not visualize how they met each other, he was a vet working all days in a small town far away from Sydney. Then - duality of Nick's character.
I got impression that the author was building artificial characters just to satisfy the scenario she prepared for them.
I stopped reading when I found the story going into cruelty, horror and too many legal details.

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