Doug Frattini’s Reviews > The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History > Status Update

While the book has significantly slowed down, it continues to provide occasional insights that continue to intrigue. Since my last update, the book has somewhat improved with more recent and relevant events, such as the ongoing mass extinction of bats in the Eastern US. As of now, Unfortunately, the book remains somewhat boring and I am at this point simply reading to finish it.

Since my most recent update, the pace of the book has steadily fallen in tandem with my interest. Unfortunately, this book has been slowing down for a while and I have been having a hard time staying invested and attentive while reading it. As for why it feels this way, I would blame it on repetition. The Sixth Extinction has continued to just review and explain past extinctions, and hasn't really changed at all.

90 pages later, the book has so far completed a history of three wildly separate extinctions: the ongoing extinction of amphibians in the present day, that of the Great Auk, and the scientific upheaval surrounding the disappearance of the dinosaurs. I am most fascinated by the history surrounding scientific theories of extinction itself, and what it meant when the world understood that species were not eternal.