RaveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Engaging and insightful ... Pollan is a superb writer. His evocation of the experience of taking hallucinogenic mushrooms is a tour de force of phenomenological reflection, as are his attempts to pin down what is currently going on in his stream of consciousness ... There are some things missing, and the book is accordingly a little unbalanced ... But these are minor complaints – the book as a whole is engaging, readable and informative.
John Gray
PositiveThe Wall Street Journal\"... elegant ... This list [of the types of atheisms] shows that Mr. Gray’s initial definition of atheism is not quite right, even by his own lights... But the definition doesn’t really matter—what matters are the actual historical movements that Mr. Gray discusses, unified only by their desire to characterize a world without God ... The book is beautifully written and full of insights from Mr. Gray’s wide learning. It is refreshing to read a book about atheism that departs from the usual pieties of the science and religion debate today ... Surprising as it may seem for a book on such a weighty subject, Seven Types of Atheism is very entertaining ... There is a tension at the heart of the book, however [as the book wants to present diversity within atheism, while also generalizing].
