Posted: Feb 25, 2010 5:22 pm
RPizzle wrote:Stephen wrote:RPizzle wrote:I heard it was good, but never read it. Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World"
I read some of it but felt like it was intended for people more ignorant than myself. Well written, and I love Sagan, but the warmth of it is at the expense of the humor I also like to see in such a book. In any case I'm not suggesting that you're ignorant or anything, I just found the book to retread a lot of stuff I'd already spent a good deal of time reading and thinking about, just in a less caustic way, so I got kind of bored with it.
Living where I do, I run into people all the time who don't know a thing about evolution or science. I figured it would be good to have something to recommend to people who aren't necessarily educated in the sciences. However, before I recommend it to anyone, I'll have to give it a good read.
I'm just a university student, so there are probably plenty of things for me to learn in that book. Even if I only learned his knack as a communicator of science, I'd be happy.
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