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Hippo
To The Anticult:
With all respect, the Carl Sagan book looks too hard for me to read, which is why I suggested an easier book for Jeannika.
Maybe it's more of a gender thing. The Robert Levine book is written in a conversational style, with humorous anecdotes, pointing out various ways that we get manipulated.
It's not as technical as the Carl Sagan book, and I'm sure that "The Demon-Haunted World" goes into much more detail.
If a person is feeling unwell, or is easily intimidated, I think it's better to start with something simple.
Don't judge a book by its cover... I guess that old saying's gone out of fashion?
I am also intensely curious to know why interest in reading a book by the marvelous Carl Sagan would have anything to do with gender.
I want to pitch "Demon-Haunted World" as vigorously as I can to anyone who sees this page. Of course people have issues that interfere with their ability to do all kinds of things, and I'm sure there are a few who simply wouldn't be able to read it. But it's a mass market book for the mass market, not a graduate physics text. Plus, it's engaging, brilliant, informative, and approachable.
This one book has changed more lives than Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Andrew Cohen and the rest of that Rat Pack ever have. Please don't be put off because its author was a brilliant scientist or because it might look long and difficult. Give it a chance.