A review by horizon_brave
Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide by Richard Dawkins

2.0

I’m keeping this review pretty short. This book is really nothing new…at all… In fact, I was just curious and I checked the publication date… December 2019…so some years after “The Greatest Show on Earth” and “The God Delusion”….I bring his up because as interesting as the material is…it’s all rehash of those two books. It feels like, and I don’t mean this to sound as harsh as it will, that Dawkins needed something to publish and having said all he wanted to in his other books, he just put out a greatest hits. There’s no purpose to this book except to create a summary of his thoughts in The Greatest Show on Earth and The God Delusion. And their fine points, it’s nice to have a collected version… but it’s nothing at all that we haven’t heard before. In fact the “A Beginners Guide” tag line added to this book is almost vital. This is something you give to someone who you want to whet their appetite and get them interested… but then again, if you’re going to do that, you may as well just have them read the full book…I don’t know, I can’t give this a high score only because it doesn’t really provide anything different than what he’s written before..but I can’t ding him for it to hard either. The book begins as if it’s some sort of anecdote about him growing up and realizing god is not real after being raised in a religious house… I thought it would maybe stick with this narrative and the whole book would be events and more pointed reasons why he converted….no he just leaves that part behind and goes full on Dawkins. Which I enjoy..but I was hoping for something different this go round.