A review by sarkiste
Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking

3.0

So let’s talk about this book –and yet I don’t even know what to say. Look I always have what to say but ‘mam not this time I guess – feels like my mind is laughing at me –sorry missy this is the book that leaves you in “OK THAT IS WHOLE POINT?” kind of moment. So in general I bought this book to inspire myself and sure Stephen Hawking is inspiring persona –he is but this biography is just one book at track I could but didn’t have to read –it didn’t make any change in my life. I highly recommend movie that is based on this book “The Theory of Everything” (Eddie Redmayne’s Academy Award winning performance) because many things from the book is cut and you rely just get point of all. This…well this was kind of boring. I’m sorry.
Biggest pros: Stephen as man who didn’t come to success over the night; Jane working on her education against all odds.
Biggest cons: May details you wouldn’t care like –what they children did during play how children adapted to they younger sibling; Lost focus of main thing -Stephen
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Srb:
Ne znam šta da vam kažem. A ja uvek imam šta da kažem. Osećam se kao da mi se sopstvena glava smeje na ovu rečenicu kao –sorry draga ovaj put nemaš šta da kažeš. Knjiga te ostavlja u u “to je cela poenta?” osećaju. U general kupila sam knjigu da bih inspirisala sebe, i istina je da je Stiven Hoking inspirativna persona zaista jedte alio ova biografija je samo još jedna u nizu knjiga koje sam pročitala a nisam morala jer nije napravila nikakvu razliku u mom životu. Preporučujem film koji je adaptacija ove knjige –“Teorija Svega” (Film za koji je Edi Redmejn dobio Oskara za najboljeg glumca), jer je film prava mera nema nepotrbnih stvari, veći je focus na Stivena i lakše se dolazi do poente. Ova knjiga je bila…pa prilično dosadna da budem iskrena.
Najveće prednosti knjige: Sam Stiven kao čovek koji je morao debelo da se izbori za svoj uspeh; Džejn koja je uprkos svemu uspela da završi svoje obrazovanje i nije odustala od istog.
Najveće mane knjige: Previše nepotrebnih detalja poput toga –kako su se igrala njihova deca i kako su starija deca prihvatila novog člana porodice; Foksu koji prelazi na njen život kada zapravo treba da bude na njegovom.