Cassandra Reads

While this was a good book, it took me a while to get through. Part of that is trying to do everything that I need to do for my classes and only reading when I had enough time to read several pages (or a chapter, if I could). This book was very dense to me. A lot of information in such a small book.

This book is my first experience with cultural evolution, something that I had never even heard of before this book. I've wanted to read it for a while, ever since I read The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology. I can't even say that I will remember all of it, but it was an interesting book none the less.

The second part of the book reminded me a lot of my Earth History class, although none of the book's information was as detailed as that class was. The human history part of the book was nice, but I almost wish it had been longer, since I don't know a lot about some of the history that was discussed. My history interests are ancient civilizations in Europe (like Greece and Rome, "classical") and France and Britain during and after the 1500s. American history isn't really my thing, nor is Asian. I do like the Aztecs, however, it has just happened that I haven't learned that much about other areas of the world. I almost wish I took more history classes, but I never could have been a history major.