And now for something partially different
Feb. 2nd, 2007 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyFrom the most overrated books of 2006, according to Prospect magazine: "Bollywood, Mihir Rose (Tempus Publishing). Contains the line "he was so nervous that he was a bundle of nerves", which, when I read it on the train, made me laugh so much that people got impatient."
Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion was listed as both over- and under-rated. Before you panic, it's obvious there's nothing further for me to contribute to discussion of the book until I've given the thing a proper read, so I shall lay off grinding my teeth for now. (The crucial question will be how much Dawkins' righteous wrath has loosened his grip on facts and logic; being an arsehole is no guarantee you're wrong.) Before I clam up, though, I did want to show you the cover of The Selfish Gene which creeped me out as a kid, which I recently rediscovered thanks to Wikipedia. For many years I assumed it must have been an Yves Tanguy painting. I thought the blobby creatures the cover represents actually lived inside us and drove us about like alien possessors. Aieee!
Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion was listed as both over- and under-rated. Before you panic, it's obvious there's nothing further for me to contribute to discussion of the book until I've given the thing a proper read, so I shall lay off grinding my teeth for now. (The crucial question will be how much Dawkins' righteous wrath has loosened his grip on facts and logic; being an arsehole is no guarantee you're wrong.) Before I clam up, though, I did want to show you the cover of The Selfish Gene which creeped me out as a kid, which I recently rediscovered thanks to Wikipedia. For many years I assumed it must have been an Yves Tanguy painting. I thought the blobby creatures the cover represents actually lived inside us and drove us about like alien possessors. Aieee!
