I definitely appreciated the interlude about 3/4 of the way in that could have been titled "A Short Course in Linguistics and Why Noam Chomsky is Wrong".
Not sure why I hadn't been expecting it.

This is one of those books that has much food for thought in it. The way Everett talks about the Pirahã and their lives fascinates me; especially as the ways in which cultural expectations and priorities are such an integral part of the conversation. That is a point that is made explicitly long after it is noticeable in everything Everett says.

I don't know what to make of it, beyond the ways in which I find the questions it raises about the intersection between biology, language, and culture to be deeply interesting in the way that, for example, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis just isn't.
I also find the theological aspects, which are very much NOT the point of the book, to be deeply fascinating because of course I do. But, again, not that I know what to do with it. (I can't wait until my book chavruta finishes this one and we can discuss it.)

I am also torn because the audiobook is...fine, but there's no way I could have actually heard Pirahã as a spoken language without it so I don't know which to recommend.