Richard Dawkins Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Richard Dawkins

Now re-reading (actually listening to) Brian Cox & Andrew Cohen’s wonderful book, Human Universe. Beautifully & intelligently written (& the same goes for Samuel West’s reading). A book that fills one with admiration for science as perhaps humanity’s most sublime achievement.

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Just read, straight through for the 2nd time, Niko’s Nature, Hans Kruuk’s biography of Niko Tinbergen. Highly intelligent, perceptive assessment of the Maestro, his strengths & weaknesses. Hans’s English is so graceful & rich, it is hard to believe it is not his native language.

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Finished Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture. Superb (mostly because written by scientist) intro to philosophy. Now greatly enjoying Blueprint by Nicholas Christakis. So far, fascinating natural history of humans in small groups: shipwrecks, kibbutzes, shakers, communes, South Pole.

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Hans Kruuk was uniquely qualified to write Niko Tinbergen’s biography. Now Hans has produced his own memoir & it may be even better than Curious Naturalists. The Call of Carnivores is this great naturalist’s account of his pioneering work on hyenas, badgers, others. Lovely book.

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Finally struggled to end of Anna Karenina. Freed to move on to a genuinely great book, The Escape Artist, brilliantly written & narrated by Jonathan @Freedland. Can’t numb the horror of Auschwitz. Can’t exaggerate the heroism of Walter Rosenberg who escaped to tell the world.

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In response to the attack on that admirable gentleman Sir Salman Rushdie, I reproduce an article I wrote in 2012. I’m also reminded of Archbishop George Carey’s infamously cowardly attack on The Satanic Verses as an “outrageous slur on the Prophet”. https://t.co/8Y2iMY6bAE

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The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt. Superb book, deeply important. Please read it. If you are a student, read it. If you are a parent of a future student, read it. Whoever you are, please read it. Read it. Read it. Read it. Please read it.

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Busy times returning: Oct 10 Tim Minchin receives the Richard Dawkins Award in Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford Oct 16, Cheltenham Fest, interviewed by Matthew Stadlen about Books Do Furnish a Life Oct 17, Thame Fest, interviewed by Dallas Campbell about Flights of Fancy (see above)

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Alexander McCall Smith has a world-class sense of the absurd, & his comic gift is matched by Hugh Laurie’s wildly anarchic reading. For the good of your soul, listen to “Portuguese Irregular Verbs”, “The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs”, et seq. Laugh till you cry with delight.

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This is very good: “My dear, it is well known that your family feelings are gradually undermining you to the extent of making one of you legs shorter than the other” (Charles Dickens, Great Expectations).

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