Demon-Haunted World

[MountainLaurel]

by Carl Sagan. Who's read it? What do you think?

I'm about 150 pages into it, and keep being blown away at the prescient points made about the role of religion and pseudoscience in public life.

[AllegroRondo]

1. Loved it

haven't read it in over 5 years, but I remember being blown away as well. Maybe I should dig it out for a re-read.

[MountainLaurel]

3. Re-read not a bad idea

Especially as we're watching our country become a theocracy, led by people who believe the devil is behind everything they don't agree with.

[Ian David]

2. I've read it twice. It's incredible

I also recomend:

Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan

Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins (just skip the chapter about his computer-simulations of artificial life).

[JitterbugPerfume]

4. I recently re- read it

gawd I miss Carl Sagans wisdom and wit

[China_cat]

5. Not only read it

I keep it in the bathroom for reading material.

[MadAsHell]

6. A truely gifted work that should be required ...

reading in every high school in the country ...

My sixteen-year-old read it and has really opened his eyes to world around him.

[MountainLaurel]

7. That's how I first heard of it

It's required reading for some of the science classes at the community college where I work.

[Southpaw Bookworm]

8. "Real Patriots Ask Questions"

Is the title of the final chapter in this book. I want that on a bumper sticker -- especially relevant to the thread in GD about why Americans are so hostile to science.

[jandrok]

9. Read it several years ago.....

Fantastic book. Definitely recommended reading.