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CogDiss Book Club Chapter 1 (Patreon)

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jon f mcdropout

a serious and heartfelt thanks. this book showed me a way out from my fundamentalist upbringing and probably saved my life. hearing you read it brings tears to my eyes as i think about me as that frightened person, timidly stepping out into a world that seemed incomprehensible and chaotic, desperately looking for something solid to hold onto, and instead finding skepticism, where i could finally learn to let go.

Muzzy and Footsy

Thank you soo much do adding this, it's resources like you guys that help keep us all afloat and sane.

Diego Guzmán

I read this book so long ago, that this audio version is helping me remember its content while I play or do mechanical things. Thanks! (Everytime Tom made a mistake, I almost start believing in reiki, magic crystals, and giraffes.)

Beatduck

Goddammit now I want all my audio books in Tom’s voice.

Beatduck
>>63766116

I can’t think of a couple that Cecil would be great for as well.

Cory Schoelzel

Damn, didn't know I needed this. How sad that in the time between him writing this and now how little has really changed. Hell I'd argue in many ways it's become worse.

I'm not a tall man, but I am a disaster

This is wonderful. If the bottom falls out of the housing market, again, then you have a job making audiobooks. You must do Flim Flam by Randi next

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Read well, Tom. That chapter (and this book) could’ve been published yesterday, though that would make it no less relevant than it was, back when it first entered the public conciseness.

Xenia Isadora Flowers

I wouldn't mind Tom and Cecil starting a side hustle as audiobook narrators. I love Tom's voice, and I could listen to Cecil's accent all day 😂

Mary

I’ve never read this book. Excited Tom is narrating. He has a good voice for it! Totally following along.

Tj Bullis
>>63797550

I honestly thought it was about today's world. After 5 seconds on google I figured out its almost 20 years old and, yeah remarkable true still

John of the bankruptcy pirates

So here is the thing. You made me buy the book. I enjoyed your reading of chapter 1 and wanted to get to chapter two. But I will still listen to Tom's readings because he has a certain dramatic style that I enjoy. But wanted to say just in case someone gives you difficulty about creating a public performance of the material. That the performance inspired at least one purchase that would not have happened otherwise.

Cheryl
>>63872636

Seconded! I, too, bought this book! For the same reasons, and I’m loving Tom’s reading and so will continue listening and reading along each week!

The Beautiful Thumb

I am SO happy that you guys are doing Carl Sagan's "Demon-Haunted World". It's a book I've had on my shelf for a while, and you provided the perfect ass-kick I needed to start reading. I'm enjoying it greatly, and I also enjoy the bonus of Tom reading chapters! (That's a lot of work.) I know it will be a while before you reach the end, but I have a book suggestion for a future read -- David Abram's "The Spell of the Sensuous". It's *almost* wooey -- in fact, I think it rides the line between factual and wooical -- but it also brings up very interesting ideas about how the introduction of phonetic-based written language has changed everything about how we think. I mean, our actual thinking mechanics, as opposed to oral cultures. Parts of it are very beautifully written. It also leans into how our written language based thinking affects how we view the environment and related climate crises. I found it fairly challenging and would really appreciate a dig into it from an atheist point of view (maybe you could arm-twist Noah into reading it, too?). It has links to other books I have read or am reading (The Goddess and the Alphabet, Sand Talk) that venture into similar territory.

notaterriblekaren

I signed up for patreon just to hear your dulcet voice read DHW. I went to college to study biology because of Carl. I miss him dearly in strange ways - when people quote me terrible facts I try to think "How would Carl respond to this?" The response is always that he would respond in a measured way, getting angry isn't helpful, as much as I enjoy listening to other atheists being angry because internally my hands are waving around in rage every time someone gets stuff wrong in order to make truth political for their gain.

KaraMarie
>>63872636

Third - after hearing the first chapter I moved this to the top of my “to buy” list. I still want more of Tom reading it though!

Asymetra

When I decided I had too many books, I started to check out books from the library on my Amazon wish list. This was the second book. Being a long time fan of Carl Sagan since his show Cosmos, I read the book and immediately had to buy it. I will be reading as I listen to this.

Asymetra
>>64889471

It's a strange belief that there are too many books in the house. This is solved by more bookshelves. When they overflow and there isn't enough room to walk around, this is solved by a bigger house. The ultimate solution is to just buy a library.