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Originally Posted by stevejay
Is anyone else of the opinion that Fiction can make better fodder for discussion than Nonfiction? Not always though of course, and there are some nice choices there. Technical or reference type books may be a bit of a downer, a book like Origin of Species will go for pages and pages to deliver the conclusion of a species deriving from a common ancestor.
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I've only just started it, but have skimmed as well - I can assure you that
The Origin of Species is
very different from technical books. It's not a text book, but about exploration. It's written for an educated,
general reader.