A review by lbb00ks
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene

Although I read this book around many other books and over quite a bit of time, the re-re-rereading of chapters greatly improved my understanding of the historical precedent and evolution of string theory. I confess I did not (yet-ahem) read all the way to the end. I stopped at the chapter that the author identified as (the) one that might take several readings to comprehend. Clear and engaging and ultimately understandable, even though some of the analogies took some work to make work for me.