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A review by disastrouspenguin
A Briefer History of Time by Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking
5.0
Consumed as an audiobook.
While there's nothing earth-shattering about the prose, Hawking manages to condense a large portion of the what-everyone-should-know-but-doesn't pile of science into this little bitty book. And he does it without allowing the material to become too dense, abstract, or technical. Much easier to parse for the layman (at least, this layman) than the original, A Brief History of Time, I still ended up rewinding multiple times to be able to process the concept(s) he lays out.
I am adding a new shelf to my Goodreads collection because of this book: "read-again". I think in the future I will choose to read the physical book in order to switch back and forth between chapters, and re-read paragraphs more easily.
While there's nothing earth-shattering about the prose, Hawking manages to condense a large portion of the what-everyone-should-know-but-doesn't pile of science into this little bitty book. And he does it without allowing the material to become too dense, abstract, or technical. Much easier to parse for the layman (at least, this layman) than the original, A Brief History of Time, I still ended up rewinding multiple times to be able to process the concept(s) he lays out.
I am adding a new shelf to my Goodreads collection because of this book: "read-again". I think in the future I will choose to read the physical book in order to switch back and forth between chapters, and re-read paragraphs more easily.