The Lucifer Principle Lib/E (Audiobook)

from mikebridge

This is the most poorly researched book I've ever read. A smart-aleck whiz-kid rock promoter takes a couple weeks to misread whole genres of science, then assembles a whiny diatribe against everything that bugs him. Each chapter is about 3 pages long and makes huge leaps of logic to connect compl...

from inasrullah64

It is amazing what a person can get away with under the pretense of science. Mr. Bloom certainly evinces his bigotry of Islam, the "Islamic world" and Arabs under the guise science. The Lucifer Principle is merely a vehicle to support a political agenda disguised as science. This is not too surpr...

from TeaTimeCoder

In between ravings about homoeopathy and inaccurate descriptions of what a neural net is and what it can do the book is just a random hotchpotch of musings with no clear aim. Not sure what the message is but the author sure tries to hammer it home by repeating himself ad nauseam. It's like listen...

from librarythingaliba

This was one of those books that I spent a good amount of time feeling like I'd read before, as it echos feelings and beliefs that I've developed independently. The first part of the book lays out some interesting theory about memes and the social organism and effectively maps the Darwinian strug...

from chaosmogony

An interesting historical and social explanation for the concept of "evil". I'm still not entirely sure I'm on board with the type of biological fatalism argued for by Bloom, though in saying that it is certainly a powerful and compelling argument that cannot be easily knocked down.