Like The Butterfly and the Bell Jar it is hard to criticize a book written by someone who no longer has control over their body despite retaining their full mental faculties. But… I downloaded the audio-book of this one and was confused when Overdrive’s details said it was under 3 hours, I thought it must have been a mistake but it wasn’t; this is an incredibly brief (heh) memoir by brilliant cosmologist Stephen Hawking. A memoir so brief that the Hollywoodized biopic starring Eddie Redmayne gave me […]
A Brief History of Time – Review #2 for AamilTheCamel
This is my 2nd book out of the 130 books that I am reading for 2014. There is a certain joy in reading the account of something from someone who was intricately involved with it. Science is not something that was very popular a few years back. It has gained greater following thanks to the internet, but Physics (and more so mathematics) is still an esoteric enigma that still confounds many a netizen. Beyond a basic grasp of ideas of physics we usually don