sarasoup's review against another edition
5.0
newton missed those lessons on grace and decorum 🙄🙄
brekekeks_'s review against another edition
3.0
No ja w fizykę nie umiem I przeczytałam ją ze względu na to, że znajduje się na plakacie "100 książek, które warto przeczytać " i jak na osobę która fizyki nie ogarnia lektura była przyjemna.
dorothy_gale's review against another edition
4.0
Ah, Stephen Hawking (1942-2018). Many regard him as the one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein. He has 30 distinct books on Goodreads, and he has averaged a 4.15-star rating between them. This book in particular was/is his most popular, with a 4.17-star average from 254,587 reviewers. Published in 1988, it was only 5 hours and 46 minutes as an audiobook (although I admit I started out with an e-book and crashed and burned).
I'm by no means a physicist or even a scientist, but you know when someone appears on 7 episodes of the Big Bang Theory and 4 episodes of the Simpsons, he's a pretty big deal :)
This was NOT my kind of book, but I listened for the gold anyway. Toward the end, I didn't feel as bad because he said if I had remembered everything in it, I would have recorded over 2 million pieces of information. He did jam a lot in, and he seemed to have a good sense of humor. He mentioned the possibility of black holes not being black, but he really got my attention when he reminded me of the existence of imaginary numbers -- right before introducing imaginary time! VERT DER FERK? haha.
Another favorite piece: "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don’t shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light."
“I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.” (The Illustrated Brief History of Time)
I also agree with another reviewer who said "Isn't it amazing that a person can read a book like A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and come away feeling both smarter and dumber than before he started? What a universe we live in!"
I'm by no means a physicist or even a scientist, but you know when someone appears on 7 episodes of the Big Bang Theory and 4 episodes of the Simpsons, he's a pretty big deal :)
This was NOT my kind of book, but I listened for the gold anyway. Toward the end, I didn't feel as bad because he said if I had remembered everything in it, I would have recorded over 2 million pieces of information. He did jam a lot in, and he seemed to have a good sense of humor. He mentioned the possibility of black holes not being black, but he really got my attention when he reminded me of the existence of imaginary numbers -- right before introducing imaginary time! VERT DER FERK? haha.
Another favorite piece: "There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don’t shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light."
“I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.” (The Illustrated Brief History of Time)
I also agree with another reviewer who said "Isn't it amazing that a person can read a book like A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and come away feeling both smarter and dumber than before he started? What a universe we live in!"
1morepaige's review against another edition
4.0
I’m not sure I got everything that was in here, but I’m hoping it’s like when I was learning different languages—sometimes reading something too hard helped me get better at reading in that language. Maybe if I read enough science books, something will get left in my head even if most of it goes right over.
I didn’t expect to laugh out loud while reading A Brief History of Time, but I did! At least twice! That was really nice. This was a good finish for my 2018 reading goal.
I didn’t expect to laugh out loud while reading A Brief History of Time, but I did! At least twice! That was really nice. This was a good finish for my 2018 reading goal.
thayerbowen's review
3.0
Dense. At times amusing. Written in 1988 astrophysics and physics has professed a lot, even in my amateur understanding.Â