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A Brief History of Time is not a challenging book at all. Hawkins masterfully presents difficult topics in an accessible way. If people are not finishing the bo
by mvdtnz 3y ago
A Brief History of Time is not a challenging book at all. Hawkins masterfully presents difficult topics in an accessible way. If people are not finishing the book it's on them and their level of interest, and not the difficulty of the book.
- j4yav 3y agoI read it when I was ten or eleven, after reading Cosmos. I'm sure some of it flew over my head, but it wasn't a hard read even then. In the sense that it was quite approachable, written in an accessible tone, and didn't assume any previous knowledge. I was a sharp and nerdy kid, but far from a genius. For me Gödel, Escher, Bach is a better example of a great book I kept bouncing off of for various reasons even though I read it much later in life. Gravity's Rainbow in fiction. Some of my favorite books are ones that I started three or four times before pushing through and loving them by the end.
- norir 3y agoI want to love GED but I feel it's a book with a lot of great ideas that needed a much stronger editor.
- ramraj07 3y agoA little empathy might be in order. This book is infamous for never getting finished even among scientists. Clearly you suited its style if there was even one. Maybe you were just in a very motivated state when you read it. Doesn’t really mean much when the preponderance of evidence isn’t in that direction.
- number6 3y agoI had a very similar experience with this book I must have been 14 or something and it was fascinating to me.