A review by amandakitz
The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion by Herman Wouk

4.0

Very well written collection of memoirs by a Jewish novelist on his way of balancing science and religion, and the conversations and experiences that led him there. The actual meat of that balance between science and religion rests in the last chapter, but the memoirs along the way are enjoyable and insightful. I think this book would have been more interesting had I read the authors' novels first and therefore been motivated to hear his memoirs, novel excerpts, and explanations, but as my first time reading his works this was not unpleasant. I greatly enjoyed hearing this science versus religion conversation from a Jewish perspective, since so often such a conversation is dominated by Christian and atheist voices. Overall a good, thoughtful, insightful book.