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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
medium-paced
astrophysicists are soooo bad at explaining things
Nifty, short and well-written, but by no means 'light' in terms of the thought it unpacks.
Goes well with Rovelli's books on spacetime
Goes well with Rovelli's books on spacetime
Levin’s book Black Hole Blues is one of my favourite non fiction books of all time, and I was not disappointed by this one.
Her strength lies in a mastery of metaphor to explain exceedingly difficult mental concepts of relativity and quantum mechanics in relation to explaining what, exactly, a black hole is, and why we should care.
I came out of reading this fascinated and entranced by them, though it did get kind of muddy and difficult towards the end. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed this. The illustrations as well were wonderful and extremely helpful in supporting Levin’s gorgeous prose.
I wouldn’t read this without reading Black Hole Blues first (i would have found this more difficult if that book hadn’t already infected me with a love and fascination for this area of science) but you should do that anyway.
Her strength lies in a mastery of metaphor to explain exceedingly difficult mental concepts of relativity and quantum mechanics in relation to explaining what, exactly, a black hole is, and why we should care.
I came out of reading this fascinated and entranced by them, though it did get kind of muddy and difficult towards the end. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed this. The illustrations as well were wonderful and extremely helpful in supporting Levin’s gorgeous prose.
I wouldn’t read this without reading Black Hole Blues first (i would have found this more difficult if that book hadn’t already infected me with a love and fascination for this area of science) but you should do that anyway.
I feel like I mostly followed this book but if you asked me to explain any of it I would immediately give up. Physics and math are insane. Levin is an entertaining writer and very good at breaking down the unimaginable.
challenging
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
What a strangely engrossing book! I genuinely couldn't put it down. Such beautiful prose written about such a deeply existentially terrifying subject. There's a great deal of humor here as well. Though is more of a sardonic "we're all going to die and nothing matters" way and not so much of a "ha-ha isn't that a funny anecdote" sort of way.
Was a library book and I ran out of time to finish
informative
slow-paced