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Permalink Reply by Sophie on March 15, 2009 at 5:01pm

Cool!!! Im going to get the ebook

Permalink Reply by Nelson on March 15, 2009 at 5:03pm

*starts re-reading the preface and chapter 1* :)

Permalink Reply by Morgan Matthew on March 15, 2009 at 5:09pm

Sounds good. I have a good idea on how to promote the book club even more :) Ill PM you about it.

Permalink Reply by Pat on March 15, 2009 at 5:59pm

Just started to re-read The God Delusion this morning, before I read this post.

Permalink Reply by Vlad Nistor on March 15, 2009 at 6:26pm

The God Delusion is a good book, I've already read it, but look forward to reading it again and discuss it.

I've had a look at the content and there are bout 400 words/page. Wikipedia says the average American can read 250-300 words/minute.
There seems to be a connection between pairs of two chapters (have a look at their names) and I think it would make more sense to read them as such. Two chapters means about 70 pages read = 93-110 minutes of reading time for the average American adult. I would think that up to two hours of reading is a reasonable effort. The whole book would take about 10 hours.

I'm unsure what your position is on torrent copies so I won't be posting a direct link. Search Isohunt.com for a pdf copy if you're interested; it took me 6 seconds to download.

--Vlad
http://atheistblog.org

Permalink Reply by Brad Leclerc on March 15, 2009 at 6:30pm

Awesome, I'll have to pull it out and start re-reading. :)

Permalink Reply by Lisa on March 15, 2009 at 6:32pm

Sounds like a plan. I have also already read this book, but I very much enjoyed it and certainly don't mind rereading it. I look forward to discussing it with everyone :)

Permalink Reply by mcash1 on March 15, 2009 at 7:07pm

Looking forward to it :) Read it in Cuba last year, it will bring back good memories of the beach.

Permalink Reply by Sniz on March 15, 2009 at 8:46pm

Hey just wanted to add that if you don't torrent, I have a pdf of the book as well. If you want it, let me know and we'll find a way to get it to you.

Vlad, I see where you are coming from totally, but I also had some members comment that they were worried they wouldn't be able to keep up with how much else they had going on. I personally will need to try hard to squeeze in extra reading between classes, work, and studying. Let's see how the first week goes, and if people think they can handle more, we'll up the chapters.

Permalink Reply by Nelson on March 15, 2009 at 9:45pm

i also have a .pdf of the book for anyone interested. i'll offer my help too in getting anyone a copy of that file. just lemme know.

Permalink Reply by Pam on March 16, 2009 at 7:32am

I'd be interested in the pdf, if possible. I don't know how big the file size is, but my email is pamantha@NOSPAMgmail.com (without the NOSPAM part, of course) if it can go through that way.

Permalink Reply by Nelson on March 16, 2009 at 2:07pm

i've sent it to your email. lemme know you got it ok. :)

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