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{{newreview|author=Charles Darwin|title=On the Origin of Species|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Having started the year with the above, I managed to close it with Richard Dawkins' [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1906147493?tag=thebookbag-21&camp=1406&creative=6394&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1906147493&adid=0F6CX1EA48N3VG8GM4XN& audio version of the book (9781906147495)]. While I love his voice (if not his unusual way of pronouncing canine as "cannine"), he might not be the best narrator - there is an obvious jump in volume and attack to his voice due to every pause the producers had in the recording. The benefit of that is there is a variety in the telling, for I found it a little dry, and following the script with the original book format is not the way we're supposed to consume audio CDs, surely?
Still, Dawkins is superlative in his field, and the way he sheds something like 20% of the text to make it more accurate, more relevant to modern thinking, and more condensed and concise than ever before, is to be lauded. It's just one further option available - while we head away from 2009 as I write, there is no way in which Darwin is less essential just because we've passed his anniversary.
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