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1mpossiblealice's review
informative
inspiring
reflective
5.0
This was wonderful. Each chapter is about a different area of science or ideas, and it's interesting and funny and sometimes makes your brain feel like it's about to implode (in a good way).
I like reading Robin Ince because it feels like his brain is even more full of stuff than mine and I find that reassuring, but also because I really identify with the feeling that pretty much everything is interesting. This is one of those books where each chapter makes me want to go off and read more about the subject matter, and wish I had enough time in life to learn about everything!
A really enjoyable and fascinating book, and I love reading a book by someone who is not a scientist and doesn't understand all the details of quantum physics or cosmology but keeps learning about it anyway.
I like reading Robin Ince because it feels like his brain is even more full of stuff than mine and I find that reassuring, but also because I really identify with the feeling that pretty much everything is interesting. This is one of those books where each chapter makes me want to go off and read more about the subject matter, and wish I had enough time in life to learn about everything!
A really enjoyable and fascinating book, and I love reading a book by someone who is not a scientist and doesn't understand all the details of quantum physics or cosmology but keeps learning about it anyway.
tigercub58's review
5.0
Despite all the grief, disruption to normal life and everything else negative resulting from the COVID pandemic, a couple of lockdowns prompted Robin Ince to create the best book I've read in a long time. I would like to think he would have written it anyway but I am SO glad he did nevertheless. A wonderfully entertaining, thoughtful and uplifting discussion on the benefit of questioning everything from a single atom to the entire universe(s). Even the later sections on death – from a devout atheist - are optimistic and strangely reassuring (to me at least). Could easily have the title “Life, the Universe and Everything” but I think someone else has nabbed that one already.
margaret21's review
4.0
This non-scientist was happy to be swept along by another non-scientist. Robin Ince, once as bored by the subject as I was at school, has taken the opportunity to discover, and immerse himself in the world of scientific discovery. And he communicates his excitement and enthusiasm for evolution, outer space... everything really, in an engaging and comprehensible manner. The jokey style that goes down so well in his irrepressible live appearances don't work so well on paper, but I'm prepared to forgive him for confirming that science is indeed far more fascinating and engaging than school science led me to believe.
nicolegc1's review
it was a bit slow at the start, and hard to get into. I should try to read it in smaller chucks so maybe it's more digestible and engaging.