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A review by dreiac
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
2.0
Listening to this 30th anniversary edition audiobook (well, I only managed about a third of it - just over five and a half hours) was hard-work. Not so much the thesis, although admittedly sometimes I didn’t have a clue what Richard Dawkins was on about, in contrast with other times, when he overanalysed and went on and on and on about the same theory that already seemed pretty easy to understood from the beginning.
The thing that completely disrupted the flow for me, and ultimately give up on it a third way in, were the constant notes sprinkled all over this edition, with endless modifications and corrections to the original text.
So imagine you’re learning about something and finding it quite interesting (and relatively proud of yourself for actually managing to pay attention, stick with it and understand the content) only to be informed in the end that what you’ve just learned is outdated or wrong in one form or another...
The thing that completely disrupted the flow for me, and ultimately give up on it a third way in, were the constant notes sprinkled all over this edition, with endless modifications and corrections to the original text.
So imagine you’re learning about something and finding it quite interesting (and relatively proud of yourself for actually managing to pay attention, stick with it and understand the content) only to be informed in the end that what you’ve just learned is outdated or wrong in one form or another...