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Contact by Carl Sagan

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  Is it possible to fall in love with a book only after reading 5 pages of it. I think that is sign of a good book, be it in terms of concept or story or presentation/language anything.  I have just started reading Contact by Carl Sagan, a famous physicist of 1950s. I am not person fascinated by ET kind of concept. I do not wonder whether there is life in other planets. I think that it is quite possible that there might be life in some form in some planet in one of those millions and millions of galaxies thrown across our universe. Most often I think that we might never recognize the life form as actual life. After-all we do not realize that our own planet Earth is alive (alive, even apart from the fact it supports life).  To me this whole universe is like some kind of huge Ecological structure, it is a living breathing, feeling creature.  Well, anyway back to the book. It is more about the  ET kind of stuff, but the way the book leads to it, is really...