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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by charlou » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:14 pm

ooohhh ... illustrated by Dave McKean ... excellent 8-)

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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:19 pm

Oh! McKean is GOOOOOD!! I have Gaiman's Mr Punch which he illustrated - very classy! :tup:
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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by Audley Strange » Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:10 pm

Pfff, he'd have had more effect on the public consciousness if he had appeared as a fiendish wizardfinder general in a Harry Potter movie.
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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by Animavore » Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:10 pm

It's getting good reviews of his friends and Ricky Gervais :hehe:

I'll more than likely get this for me nieces.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0593 ... C4DBCG246Q

It's the clearest and most beautifully written introduction to science I've ever read. Again and again I found myself saying "Oh! So that's how genes work!" (or stars, or tectonic plates, or all the other things he explains). Explanations I thought I knew were clarified; things I never understood were made clear for the first time.
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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by Atheist-Lite » Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:42 pm

Just reading a few pages on Amazon and I'm sorry to have to say this isn't gonna turn kids onto science. You sense RDs boredom at having to explain things 'below his interest level'; it is palpable. And when explaining things he does it in a way that, whilst very detailed, lacks the flavour of excitement necessary to ignite a childs interest....the illustrations on Amazon review are not exactly inspiring either. It is gonna bomb...and I hope I'm wrong and that Amazon just chose the worst pages by accident. :coffee:
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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by Animavore » Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:13 am

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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:34 am

You see how he's being rather tedious here....a chance to excite the kids and their parents about his new book....wasted on justifying. :smoke:
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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by Animavore » Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:24 am

He should be promoting his book on CBBC, not Newsnight :smug:
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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:40 am

Animavore wrote:He should be promoting his book on CBBC, not Newsnight :smug:
He's afraid of looking silly, I don't know why at this stage? :smoke:
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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by JimC » Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:21 am

What he needs to do is what I do several times a year...

Chuck a decent sized lump of sodium into a bucket of water!
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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by MiM » Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:18 pm

Here is another take, maybe more like what Crumple is asking for

I find it very probable, that I will enjoy that book together with my family
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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:16 pm

I don't think much to the illustrations. Books in the seventies and sixties had better, more inspired, illustrations...I'm not giving this book a special place in that. See how it goes, it'll appeal to swats more than the average kid...most likely those who already had doubts. If it saves one sinner it'll have served it's purpose I suppose? :smoke:
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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by klr » Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:42 pm

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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by Atheist-Lite » Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:48 pm

Bringing up the Salem witch trials in the way done here may backfire? I worry he's accidently providing ideas for the machievelian element of that age range? :smoke:
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Re: The Magic Of Reality

Post by Jay G » Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:33 pm

I'm just one of those who don't get all "excited" when people talk science. I've tried to read several books for laymen including one by Asimov and I just get bored.
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