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Summary: The Best Book I've Ever Read In My Entire Life
Review: A friend gave me this book. Once I picked it up I couldn't put it down until I'd read it cover to cover . It really is one of the best books I've ever read. Needless to say, this book will stay in my book collecton till the day I die.
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Summary: Book Without Soul
Review: A purely mechanistic view of life. If this is all there is, then life has no point or purpose. Unknown to each other, my brother and I both bought this book simultaneously and then simultaneously threw it away! Actually threw a book in the trashcan!
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Summary: Dragons of Eden: Breath-taking
Review: A sweeping view of human intellectual development and mind comparison. (Speaking of which: any readers of reviewer Kityty above ["Too Technical..."] will hope along with me that she will first learn her "Englixh" and then decide whether or not to take up "schechty" reviewing!). This book is a panoramic vista of what is known about human (and animal) brain geography and function, and it is written with the same multi-disciplinary knowledge that makes Cosmos so beautiful. I loved his compressed "Cosmic Calendar!"
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Summary: Too technical and pointless
Review: After having attemted to read this boring and schetchy book in my college Englixh class, I decided that Carl Sagan needed another career. He doesn't get his point across, if there is a point, at all. It took me several days just to read chapter two. It was all to choppy, technical, confusing, and as I said before, done right boring. I do not recommend this book to anyone unless they are insane or wanting to become insane. It would take an absolutely crazy athiest type of person to read this book. Two thumbs and two big toes down. Zero stars (that's not an option) in this girls opinion. It is not a far fetched idea to believe that thousands of others who made the mistake of reading this book would agree.
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Summary: This book has changed my life.
Review: After reading this book,I have finaly found a real,honest connection between GOD and science. After being torn between the two for so long,I finaly have the answer.
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Summary: Masterful!!!
Review: An outstanding work from a brilliant man. This book is good for anyone at all, but exceptionally interesting for those studing the human brain, the function of the human mind, or the human condition in general. The stories which serve to illustrate Sagan's theories are presented exquisitely. The statistics which support Sagan's points are laid out in a logical and easy-to-understand fashion. The book is short enough to get through in one sitting. A must read. Period.
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Summary: great
Review: Anyone who doesn't like this book should be sent to China and opressed. Every Christian should read this book to understand the "soul". hahaha
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Summary: I read this book in college and it stays with me to this day
Review: Carl Sagan at his intellectual best. If Darwin and Sagan were peers they would also be soul mates. Sagan makes sense of the dark hidden corners of the thought process that lurks inside us all.
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Summary: In a league of his own
Review: Carl Sagan is one of the select few prolific non-fiction writers who can manage to create a masterpiece each time. While much of _Dragons of Eden_ is dated, the book was way ahead of its time and probably remains on the cutting edge of theory in the evolution of human intellegence (at least in the popular realm).Those areas in which the book is clearly a generation old (Sagan predicts that someday computers will have television like interfaces, that regular people may have access to them and that they someday may exist in peoples' homes), are endearing, yet they also exemplify Sagan's foresight and wisdom. Predictions like these, and others (such as the then-absurd notion that genetic engineering may someday become science fact), are what sets him apart. As a scientist, he is a skeptic in the purest sense, but that doesn't mean he lost his imagination and ambition. He was not a cynic. I recommend this book to just about anyone who is a Sagan fan. However, it isn't his best work. I would certainly place either _The Demon Haunted World_ and _Billions and Billions_ above this.
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Summary: In a league of his own
Review: Carl Sagan is one of the select few prolific non-fiction writers who can manage to create a masterpiece each time. While much of _Dragons of Eden_ is dated, the book was way ahead of its time and probably remains on the cutting edge of theory in the evolution of human intellegence (at least in the popular realm). Those areas in which the book is clearly a generation old (Sagan predicts that someday computers will have television like interfaces, that regular people may have access to them and that they someday may exist in peoples' homes), are endearing, yet they also exemplify Sagan's foresight and wisdom. Predictions like these, and others (such as the then-absurd notion that genetic engineering may someday become science fact), are what sets him apart. As a scientist, he is a skeptic in the purest sense, but that doesn't mean he lost his imagination and ambition. He was not a cynic. I recommend this book to just about anyone who is a Sagan fan. However, it isn't his best work. I would certainly place either _The Demon Haunted World_ and _Billions and Billions_ above this.
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