Roger Glenn Duncan

Excellent anthology!

Revisado: 12-25-24

I liked this a lot better than I expected. Better than any horror anthology I’ve read recently.

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Half great

Revisado: 10-06-24

The first of the two stories is awful: I nearly gave up on the book halfway through it. It wasn’t even obvious that it was a horror story until about the last five minutes. In addition to the story being uninteresting, the narrator was using the same voice for all the characters, so a lot of the time I couldn’t even tell who was speaking, which made it harder to follow.

However, the second story was magnificent. 11/10. Had it been the only story, this would be a shorter but five star book. I recommend skipping straight to the second novella.

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Below average anthology

Revisado: 09-24-24

I’m a horror anthology aficionado, so I know not to expect perfect. Usually stories in anthologies are split between good-meh-bad. Unfortunately, this book ranges only from meh-bad.

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Powerful stuff

Revisado: 02-26-24

Highly informative and powerful stuff. Very strongly recommended to any interested in arguments for faith.

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Below average

Revisado: 11-19-23

This is a below average anthology. In all anthologies the stories are hit or miss. These are mostly miss. The value is decent considering that it’s a compilation of books, but the quantity doesn’t mask the lack of quality.

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Just…no…

Revisado: 09-30-23

Literally couldn’t finish this…the idea caused me physical pain. Extremely amateurish writing…comes across like a collection of ghost stories written by high school students. And pretty much all the stories are of the variety of ‘it turns out that racism was the real monster all along’. Strongly recommend you save your credit.

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Skip it

Revisado: 09-21-23

I generally love books like this but I almost couldn’t finish this one. A big issue is that it’s so dated and so much of it’s defense of Darwinism feels really dated. But also….why? I don’t understand the point of this book.

Here’s the summary: ‘I used to not believe in God but now I do. You should believe everything scientists tell you because it’s probably right but also doesn’t provide evidence against God.’

Really the only interesting bits were the appendices where the author discusses ethical implications of genomics. This, too, however, feels really dated.

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What did I just read?

Revisado: 09-21-23

This book is moderately entertaining at points, though, frankly, paper thin with the material that really matters. One issue for me was how the author would sprinkle in progressive political elements in strange ways that seemed forced and didn’t advance the narrative. For example, while discussing some of the information science historical advancements made by Bell Labs, the author made a quick sidebar away from the historical review to mention that almost all Bell Labs’ scientists were white back in those days. Like…why? Why bring race into a discussion on historical developments in information science. There’s stuff like that throughout the book. It’s very distracting, and moves the focus away from the core focus of the book.

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Powerful stuff

Revisado: 09-19-23

This is a very compelling narrative, all the more so given the source: one of the world’s foremost (former) atheists. Strongly recommend.

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Just okay

Revisado: 08-26-23

Lightman is a fantastic popularizer of science and an excellent communicator, but this book fell flat. First…I’m not even sure what it was suppose to be about. Second, I was a bit bothered by some things he asserts as settled that are very much still being sorted.

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