Discount Dawkins

[cronus]

There I was, being the miser I am, looking through the books at The Works, discount bookstore for over-runs and batches that have been found floating dead in the proper bookshops, and there was Dawkins Memoirs in a big pile in hardback reduced from 22.99 to a credible 4.99 and that's something of a bargain I thought. The poor guys birthday must be miserable knowing he's not that popular after all, though?

[Animavore]

I've no interest in reading his memoirs. He's not very interesting as a person.
I'll still read his books on science.

[Rum]

Ditto Anim. I don't know what possessed him to write the book. I'm sure the sales must have been disappointing.

[Hermit]

There I was, being the miser I am, looking through the books at The Works, discount bookstore for over-runs and batches that have been found floating dead in the proper bookshops, and there was Dawkins Memoirs in a big pile in hardback reduced from 22.99 to a credible 4.99 and that's something of a bargain I thought. The poor guys birthday must be miserable knowing he's not that popular after all, though?

Dawkins won't take that personally. Every publication gets remaindered eventually. It's standard operational procedure to sell at a premium when the item is hot, discount it somewhat to maintain sales at a more reasonable profit margin and flog the rest off just to avoid warehousing costs or dumping fees. I know this from a buyer's point of view with 40 years of experience, and not just in regard to books.

[cronus]

There I was, being the miser I am, looking through the books at The Works, discount bookstore for over-runs and batches that have been found floating dead in the proper bookshops, and there was Dawkins Memoirs in a big pile in hardback reduced from 22.99 to a credible 4.99 and that's something of a bargain I thought. The poor guys birthday must be miserable knowing he's not that popular after all, though?

Dawkins won't take that personally. Every publication gets remaindered eventually. It's standard operational procedure to sell at a premium when the item is hot, discount it somewhat to maintain sales at a more reasonable profit margin and flog the rest off just to avoid warehousing costs or dumping fees. I know this from a buyer's point of view with 40 years of experience, and not just in regard to books.

Well, I ain't ever seen no Dawkins make The Works before and it isn't that long since it was published....six months.

[Drewish]

There's Dawkins' personal life, Dawkins' political positions, Dawkins' views on science outside of biology, and Dawkins' views on biology. If I knew him personally then I might be interested in the first two more, but as it stands I couldn't be bothered.

[Bella Fortuna]

And it's his birfday today!

[Rum]

I hope LP remembered a card..

[hackenslash]

Every publication gets remaindered eventually.

It's very rare you see science books remaindered.

[SteveB]

I never read any of Dawkins' book or any book about atheism. Terrible atheist, I know. I don't believe in gods. It's pretty simple. I don't need a book to validate it.

[hackenslash]

I'm not much into books about atheism, as they seem somewhat pointless. I read The God Delusion one afternoon back before the night of the long knives specifically to debunk some cretinist quote-mines and other discoursive misbehaviour. I read God Is Not Great because I always liked Hitchens as a writer, and because I'd read all his other books up to that point, with the exception of The Missionary Position and Love, Poverty and War, which I still haven't read. I also read Letter to a Christian Nation one afternoon when I worked in the library and it was quiet. Other than that, I haven't read anything really related to atheism. I've read all of Dawkins' scientific stuff, though.

[Svartalf]

I never read any of Dawkins' book or any book about atheism. Terrible atheist, I know. I don't believe in gods. It's pretty simple. I don't need a book to validate it.

TGD is a pis poor excuse for a debunking of the divine anyway.

[Rum]

It isn't all that well argued and it lacks the sort of passion Hitchens could bring to the issue. Hitchens came over as continually affronted by religion!

[Svartalf]

I got nothing against cold logic, though a bit of passion does not harm, but I hate when it's full of holes where doubt can seep through... I tend toward agnosticism (you just can't know), and TGD did, if possible, strengthen me into that position, but it certainly did not kill the last shred of doubt I have against the possibility of the divine and supernatural, despite the utter lack of evidence for their actual existence.

BTW are those old sawss
absence of evidences is not evidence of absence and
You can't prove a negative, actual facts or too oft repeated fallacies and sophisms?

[hackenslash]

absence of evidences is not evidence of absence and
You can't prove a negative, actual facts or too oft repeated fallacies and sophisms?

The problem with both of those 'saws' is that they're factually incorrect.