A review by gnug315
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
3.0
David excells in logical thinking, has a wide breadth of knowledge and a lot of interesting things to say on a fairly broad range of topics.
He does seem to suffer from the need to exhaust every single possible counterargument to his points in a methodological, borderline autistic way, which can be a bit tiresome in a lenghty book, so I recommend skipping ahead when boredom sets in, as it will invitably do when you think to yourself for the umpteenth time "yes, I get it already."
Personally I would have preferred to have heard him make his points in a more succint manner, but this is a matter of taste and I am sure many people will find great enjoyment in the thoroughness of his explanations.
I especially enjoyed the last two chapters, which pulled the book up from merely OK.
PS. I shudder to think how many instances of the word "parochial" the copy-editor had to take an axe to before we ended up at this version. This greatly distracted me, but I'm a bit neorotic..
He does seem to suffer from the need to exhaust every single possible counterargument to his points in a methodological, borderline autistic way, which can be a bit tiresome in a lenghty book, so I recommend skipping ahead when boredom sets in, as it will invitably do when you think to yourself for the umpteenth time "yes, I get it already."
Personally I would have preferred to have heard him make his points in a more succint manner, but this is a matter of taste and I am sure many people will find great enjoyment in the thoroughness of his explanations.
I especially enjoyed the last two chapters, which pulled the book up from merely OK.
PS. I shudder to think how many instances of the word "parochial" the copy-editor had to take an axe to before we ended up at this version. This greatly distracted me, but I'm a bit neorotic..