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I’m sorry, but after reading the first five chapters of this greatly overrated book (would people insist on finishing it if it weren’t written by the Omniscient Richard Dawkins?), I had to put it down. I still have a stack of presumably worthwhile books to read, and I don’t want to waste my time on this 300+ pages junk.
I haven’t read any of the books that Dawkins has written and I’m certainly not impressed by this one. I honestly expected something more, ah, sophisticated from a famous intellectual like him. I expected to be blown away and for every argument to go over my head. Yet that didn’t happen. His writing style uncannily resembles mine: childish and self-indulgent. I now see why a lot of people consider this “a rant.” He also must have thought that he’s a very funny guy. He isn’t (neither am I, but at least I try not to be downright arrogant or obnoxious). If there’s anything worse than reading something boring, it’s reading something from someone who tries to be funny, who also fails.
I suppose there is a reason he is a biologist and not a theologian. I am by no means an expert in theology, but I know enough to realize that his understanding of God and the supernatural is deep as puddle. The difference between me and Dawkins is this: he’ll never admit his ignorance in favor of patting himself on the back because he is, of course, unquestionably right. After all, 98% of the atheists who read this book will readily worship this book. He must be doing something right.
