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Old 02-13-2012, 10:28 AM   #12366
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Just finished reading Contact by Carl Sagan. I have been a fan of the movie for a long time and never thought about reading the book until recently. It was fantastic! I won't state that it was better than the movie in every regard as I think they made some pretty interesting changes in the screenplay adaption. I also wonder how it would be received by a wide readership audience today as I think some Creationists might argue that the book makes an original argument for Intelligent Design (the book is fiction, of course, so I think this would be a bit nonsense).
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Yes! I read Contact twice in high school and although I love the movie, the book is ten times better. That movie/book started me on my life as a skeptic, since after I read the book I also read Sagan's Demon-Haunted World, (a debunking of several paranormal and psuedoscientific topics) and from there started searching the Internet and found the James Randi Educational Foundation. I've been a skeptic ever since, all thanks to Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey.

I moved a few years ago and a box of books got lost in the mail. Among them was my movie-tie-in paperback of Contact. I've still never found another physical copy, but maybe there's an ebook now.
You guys have convinced me. I've read a lot of Sagan's non-fiction, but I've never read Contact, even though the film is among my top two all-time favorite science fiction movies (the other being 2001: A Space Odyssey). I'm off to download a sample.
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