A review by jamiereadthis
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
5.0
My copy of this stays loaned out about ten months out of the year, so whenever it falls back into my hands for a week or two I’m practically duty-bound to eat it up as quick as I can.
Verdict: best as ever. If you read this book and don’t have some fundamental opinions changed, then we’ll probably be friends because you hold them in the first place.
Also, I always forget (though probably no longer, writing something down has a way of solving that problem) that Kurt Vonnegut is the only blurb for the book, right on the back cover. On Carl: “I miss him so.”
Don’t we all.
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June 2009 review:
There’s nothing I could say about Carl Sagan (his work, his writing, his imitable open-minded approach to our world and everything beyond it) that hasn’t already been said, but I think that if there were one person, living or dead, with whom I could talk for days on end, my pick would be him.
Verdict: best as ever. If you read this book and don’t have some fundamental opinions changed, then we’ll probably be friends because you hold them in the first place.
Also, I always forget (though probably no longer, writing something down has a way of solving that problem) that Kurt Vonnegut is the only blurb for the book, right on the back cover. On Carl: “I miss him so.”
Don’t we all.
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June 2009 review:
There’s nothing I could say about Carl Sagan (his work, his writing, his imitable open-minded approach to our world and everything beyond it) that hasn’t already been said, but I think that if there were one person, living or dead, with whom I could talk for days on end, my pick would be him.