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Cosmos

A Personal Voyage

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Cosmos

By: Carl Sagan
Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ann Druyan
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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science.

Includes introductory music: "Heaven and Hell" by Vangelis from Cosmos: A Personal Voyage used with permission from Druyan-Sagan Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.

Praise for Cosmos

“Magnificent... With a lyrical literary style, and a range that touches almost all aspects of human knowledge, Cosmos often seems too good to be true.” - The Plain Dealer

“Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third - his mind’s - on the human condition.” - Newsday

“Brilliant in its scope and provocative in its suggestions...shimmers with a sense of wonder.” - The Miami Herald

“Sagan dazzles the mind with the miracle of our survival, framed by the stately galaxies of space.” - Cosmopolitan

“Enticing...iridescent...imaginatively illustrated.” - The New York Times Book Review

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Cosmology is tough enough to follow at the best of times, even if you’re attention span fairly reasonable. The over acting along with the heavy and unnecessary inflections are off-putting if for no other reason than they make your internal monologue disappear off on its own tangent about how annoying the peformance is.

Aside from that, the analogies and references used really make understanding what is going on out there as easy as possible. It’s also nice to hear how the scientific world are not saying they have worked it all out, simply, buy virtue of their research and experiments, this is the most likely outcome, however, they are willing and almost want to be proved wrong.

Given the exponential increase in data, experiments, technology and therefor understanding, since this book was written some 40 years ago, it’s incredible that given the huge breakthroughs this book still stands up. This is especially poignant when Sagan talks about the hopes and goals of missions which have now been completed,. You can cross check how close he actually was.

In review. A must read as long as you can get past the massively annoying narrator.

Stands the test of time but narrator is annoying

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Loved this great story of the Universe and of the key people who have contributed to our understanding of it.

Great true story

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This is really quite brilliant. I was put off reading this as I wondered would all / most of the science be out of date 40 years later. Not only is that not the case, but the philosophical, historical and political discussions throughout the book are all at the very top level. He ruminates on life on other planets, the evolution of humans, the spiralling galaxies. At the same time he is an outstanding science communicator.

Wonderful stuff. LeVar Burton reads perfectly.

Stellar

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So wide ranging, covering more topics than I realised it would including elements of our scientific history.

Fascinating

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The only reason I stayed listening to the end was because of the original source material of Carl Sagan. I was not impressed with the narrator (LeVar Burton) and have been put off listening to any books narrated by him.
After having seen the series, when it originally aired, and owned the accompanying book I looked forward to the audio book. Sadly, due to various mispronunciations such as Pliney instead of Pliny (pronounced Plin ee not Pline ee) and various others throughout the book, I found it harder to listen to the more mispronunciations came in.
I wouldn't recommend unless you're not bothered by pronunciation.
A possible return to Audible.

The book is great (narrator put me off).

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