Being science nerd, this book was in to-read list for a while, and finally having found this in the library, I decided to go ahead and read. Within the first few chapters, I realised a few things: (1) Dawkins is very verbose. Book could have easily been cut in half without losing anything of essence. His verbosity comes not just in giving more examples than necessary to explain a point but also being repetitive. (2) Intended audience of the book are Christian evolution deniers. If you are not one of them, which I am not, this gets irritating fast. (3) Book moves slowly and doesn't add anything new to someone like me, who as I said, is already science nerd.

Consequently, after reading the first two chapters in entirety, I just skipped next two, and still finding it slow and uninteresting, jumped to potentially interesting chapters, before finally just giving up and stopped reading.

Having also read The Selfish Gene, it does appear that verbosity is in author's nature though his fame has allowed editors to be lenient than they should have been. This book can still be good if you are new to concept of evolution since it has plenty of examples in detail. ( )

Dawkins always brilliantly defends evolution . He calims to be writinig for creationists, but any that picked the book up would probably soon desist due to the anger directed at them. It is not necessary to tear down the other side if you have all the evidence on your side. I think he should let it stand for itself.I understand ,however , that the worry is that people are being kept from learning about evolution, which is beautiful in and of itself. What greater argument is needed for peace and conservation than the fact that we, and by we I mean not just all people but all living things, are all related. ( )

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A challenging read. Probably should have not read it at the same time as another book. Definitely one I'll go back and read again. ( )

All stuff in here that I have for the most part, come across before, but presented in some novel ways and mercilessly unforgiving to creationism. The best titbit I found was a brilliantly elegant description of cell differentiation during division. Now I get it! ( )