It can be fun to read a scathing book review. A favorite is a Dorothy Parker one-liner: "This is not a book to be tossed lightly aside, but to be thrown with great force."
The following review is crispy with the kind of scorched slander that only academic condescension can produce. About the author Daniel Dennett, who acknowledges that in writing on the tussle between science and religion, he opens himself up to being poked in the nose and yet he is steeled to take on this burden, the reviewer proclaims: "Giordano Bruno, with tenure at Tufts!"
Enjoy.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
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