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WT Sharpe · 09-23-2014, 07:45 PM

I just finished Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life by Daniel C. Dennett. The last couple of chapters were enjoyable, but the rest of the book seemed to be in competition with his hero's Origin of Species for the dryness award. The science was solid, but the presentation was lackluster. The most enjoyable passages, with the exception of those final two chapters in which he truly seemed to come alive, was when he was quoting other scientists and authors.

It took me forever and a day to get through that book, and now I'm rewarding myself with another Brother Cadfael tale: Saint Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters (the fourth Brother Cadfael book) .

09-23-2014, 07:45 PM	#20835
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	I just finished *Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life* by Daniel C. Dennett. The last couple of chapters were enjoyable, but the rest of the book seemed to be in competition with his hero's Origin of Species for the dryness award. The science was solid, but the presentation was lackluster. The most enjoyable passages, with the exception of those final two chapters in which he truly seemed to come alive, was when he was quoting other scientists and authors. It took me forever and a day to get through that book, and now I'm rewarding myself with another Brother Cadfael tale: Saint Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters (the fourth Brother Cadfael book) . Last edited by WT Sharpe; 09-23-2014 at 07:50 PM.