The God Delusion

By: Richard Dawkins

Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward

Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.

He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly.

Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of "intelligent design", or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East or Middle America.

©2006 Richard Dawkins (P)2006 Tantor Media, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Richard Dawkins is the leading soothsayer of our time....The God Delusion continues his thought-provoking tradition." (J. Craig Venter, decoder of the human genome)
"The God Delusion is smart, compassionate, and true....If this book doesn't change the world, we're all screwed." (Penn & Teller)
"The world needs...passionate rationalists....Richard Dawkins so stands out through the cutting intelligence of The God Delusion." (James D. Watson, co-discoverer of DNA, author of The Double Helix)

Thought provoking - logical and often funny

Love the dry British humour. Drawkin presents a comprehensive layout of the whole basis of "faith" and how this term has been control people through the ages.
Recommended

true

wonderfully british , dawkins uses a velvet hammer to smash through to the truth .

Excellent

This is an excellent book to really delve into religion as a negative concept. It covered a broad range of topics and was very thorough. I feel much better informed after having read this book.

Fabulous.

Turns childhood belief on its head. What is knowledge and inquiry if not for this.

damn good book

must buy, very informative, funny at times, a very entertaining book. 10/10, definitely would pick up again

so true and so fascinating

i loved both the content and the narration. perfectly written book with understandable and fascinating content, Richard and Lalla have beautiful english i was able to understand even as a non native speaker.

A good read for believers and non-believers alike

Would you listen to The God Delusion again? Why?

You don't have to be an atheist to enjoy this book, but if you're extremely religious and don't keep an open mind to other possibilities this book might offend you. This book tries to convey different reasons why religion could be a bad thing. argues the non-existence of god and tackles the misconception that morals are derived only from religion. I have listened to a couple of audio books read by Richard Dawkins and Lala Ward and never liked there style of presentation, but the content of the book is worth it.

Any additional comments?

If you're extremely religious and don't keep an open mind to other possibilities this book might offend you.

Thoroughly amazed!

Very informative. It was great to listen to and I really enjoyed dual authors and how they traded off.

Beautifully excellent

Thank you so very much, Mr. Dawkins. All of your work is outstanding, but this particular effort is so important in our disturbing world of faith, unreason, and willful ignorance. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I've read the book once and have just completed my third time listening. This is a favourite I will continue to revisit.

Extremely well organized and concise

I really enjoyed this book, and gave me a new perspective and appreciation of how biology more than anything has shaped the world around us over billions of years to what we take for granted today