You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
prolificliving 's review for:
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Everyone must read this book. You must read this book, whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever your beliefs or your views of the world.
Quite simply, a book of the most astonishing facts in our universe told by a master and entertaining story-telling and read by a phenomenal narrator: It was a symphony for the ears and music for the soul to listen to how our universe was born, well what we think we know anyway and that goes for just about everything else: We think we know how quantum physics works or how evolution of apes ended up with us homo sapiens or how big or old the universe really is but honestly, we really know so very little. So very little indeed. And that is the biggest realization as you read or better yet, listen to Bryson's brilliant book read by Richard Matthews.
I studied engineering in college, thanks to my dad's influence, and I don't believe I have ever appreciated science, math, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, anthropology, botany, or zoology at all. That has changed. This book has made me more hungry for knowledge than all my years in college or high school ever did. And that alone makes it a magnificent book.
Bryson is entertaining to a fault; if you can weave the deep mysteries of the universe into fascinating stories such as he has done, with the characters varying from atoms or stars in far away galaxies to scientists and mathematicians and physicists who played a role in some major discovery, and if you can then help our feeble human mind expand its understanding of reality by just a little bit, then you have my deepest gratitude and loyalty as a reader and follower and Bryson has done this and so much more with A Short History of Nearly Everything.
You must read this book. Or better yet, pick up the audio from Audible because Richard Matthews is exclusive!
Quite simply, a book of the most astonishing facts in our universe told by a master and entertaining story-telling and read by a phenomenal narrator: It was a symphony for the ears and music for the soul to listen to how our universe was born, well what we think we know anyway and that goes for just about everything else: We think we know how quantum physics works or how evolution of apes ended up with us homo sapiens or how big or old the universe really is but honestly, we really know so very little. So very little indeed. And that is the biggest realization as you read or better yet, listen to Bryson's brilliant book read by Richard Matthews.
I studied engineering in college, thanks to my dad's influence, and I don't believe I have ever appreciated science, math, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, anthropology, botany, or zoology at all. That has changed. This book has made me more hungry for knowledge than all my years in college or high school ever did. And that alone makes it a magnificent book.
Bryson is entertaining to a fault; if you can weave the deep mysteries of the universe into fascinating stories such as he has done, with the characters varying from atoms or stars in far away galaxies to scientists and mathematicians and physicists who played a role in some major discovery, and if you can then help our feeble human mind expand its understanding of reality by just a little bit, then you have my deepest gratitude and loyalty as a reader and follower and Bryson has done this and so much more with A Short History of Nearly Everything.
You must read this book. Or better yet, pick up the audio from Audible because Richard Matthews is exclusive!