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Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

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verawalter's review against another edition

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slow-paced

3.0

honnari_hannya's review against another edition

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2.0

Interesting, but not super accessible if you don't already have exposure to the subjects at hand. It also meandered quite a bit through Stephen Hawking's personal experience and the facts of the matter. Normally I would enjoy this discursive way of presenting answers to "Big Questions," but I felt that a lot of the personal anecdotes were only there for fluff, while the scientific part of it was either glossed over or not given much thought at all.

thomina's review against another edition

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informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

cinnamonfox's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

firedew's review

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challenging hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

wine_and_dine's review against another edition

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challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

Has dry humour and lots of scientific knowledge dumbed down making the theories and concepts easy to read and extremely interesting, with lots of metaphors to make complex statements easily understandable (for dummies like me who don't understand physics).

Also convinced me of the possible existence of a god due to the sheer amount of paradox's (and simply the existence of the uncertainty principle) in the universe.