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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
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I loved this book. The content is a lot to digest because it’s complex in nature and because thinking about the end of the universe messes with your psyche. However, Mack does an incredible job of making all the details mostly understandable to my entirely unprepared brain. It is pleasantly humorous, hopeful, and doomful all at the same time. I need a friend to read it so that I can talk about it!
This book made my brain stretch in a really good way, the way it tends to do when learning math or science. I would read this in the morning and it helped wake me up just as much as my cup of coffee.
It took me longer to read this book than I thought, but I really enjoyed it. Learning all the ways our universe will end was informative and interesting.
The only part I didn't like was her style of adding footnotes to almost every page. It definitely took some getting used to. But overall, it was very well written and understandable, even though I only have a tiny amount of physics knowledge. Good book!
It took me longer to read this book than I thought, but I really enjoyed it. Learning all the ways our universe will end was informative and interesting.
The only part I didn't like was her style of adding footnotes to almost every page. It definitely took some getting used to. But overall, it was very well written and understandable, even though I only have a tiny amount of physics knowledge. Good book!
I loved the writing style and I enjoyed reading it! However I feel like I was only able to wrap my head around about 1/2 of the science :/
funny
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informative
fast-paced
Perhaps I had different expectations of this book, but it felt stuck in some very beginner-level explanations for each "end" that I wish we had just explored a little deeper even if it became a little bogged down in scientific jargon or mathematical formulas. Just when I was getting interested in the particulars of a concept and how its weirdness functioned, Dr. Mack always pulled back with the excuse that it is all very cool/wonderful/fascinating but she just couldn't possibly succinctly explain. Which makes me wonder why I am reading a book from her if she can't explain something to me in at least a simplified form. I'm not even really sure any of this was part of her own original research, it felt like she was just rehashing other people's papers and bits of cosmological history (that I've honestly all heard before) instead of telling us something interesting she has found in her own specific niche. She isn't a bad writer but this felt like fluff.
informative
mysterious
fast-paced
informative
medium-paced