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Peter A Sessa

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  • The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True | [Richard Dawkins]
    The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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    The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

    • UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 42 mins)
    • By Richard Dawkins
    • Narrated By Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (672)
    Performance
    (592)
    Story
    (583)

    Richard Dawkins, the world’s most famous evolutionary biologist, presents a gorgeously lucid, science book examining some of the nature’s most fundamental questions both from a mythical and scientific perspective. Science is our most precise and powerful tool for making sense of the world. Before we developed the scientific method, we created rich mythologies to explain the unknown. The pressing questions that primitive men and women asked are the same ones we ask as children. Who was the first person? What is the sun? Why is there night and day?

    Connie says: "Audio version is superb for us grown-ups"
    "Was this supposed to be a kids book?"
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    Performance
    Story
    Would you consider the audio edition of The Magic of Reality to be better than the print version?

    Having not read the print version, I wouldn't know. But I liked the tag-team narration.


    What did you like best about this story?

    I dug the emphasis on the importance of science.


    Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

    Not especially.


    Any additional comments?

    I really don't know how to review this book because I honestly don't know if it was meant for children. If it was, then I would add a star. I thoroughly enjoyed the juxtaposition of the mythological with the scientific. However, I did not care for the condescending tone of the text, or the narration when it came to addressing Christianity. As an atheist even I could feel Dawkins' contempt for "the Hebrew God" and I think it took away from the objectivity a bit (if that isn't ironic enough to say). All in all it was my seventh grade Earth Science text book, peppered with some mythology and anecdotes to make it mildly more engaging. I say mildly because I found my seventh grade Earth Science text book QUITE engaging as written!

    10 of 11 people found this review helpful

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