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I don't dislike this book. There were essays that were in it that I found interesting and thought-provoking, points that were discussed that I often wish I saw more of... but it didn't connect with me. I don't blame the author for that; her style is... her own. But I didn't like that sometimes it felt impersonal. I wasn't fond of how it felt like she often chose to utilise quotes for ideas rather than explore her own thoughts on the matter (and that, frequently, they seemed to take the place of her own ideas).

This isn't to say that she shouldn't use quotes (some were well placed), but the usage felt impersonal. Clinical. In essays that really weren't.

Oh, and... there were some mentions of the Occupy movement, and uh... the reflections were rather superficial to their impact.

This book is nonsense, and I'm not sure how this helped launch a wider New Atheist "movement" of faux intellectuals rallying against religion (but I can guess, since it's a post-2001 book that included a lot of racist trash about Muslims with huge red flags in every other way for other forms of bigotry).

Sam Harris is a piece of shit, and he's only harmed other atheists. (Signed, a queer atheist who never had a place in atheist communities and left a lot of them because too many cishet white men were sucking up all the oxygen with their bigoted rhetoric, and people were happier for marginalised and vulnerable people to leave than to excise the disgusting human beings within them.)

When a book has to tell you it's not racist because it's saying racist things, that might be a good indicator that it is (in fact) racist.