A review by ergative
Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything by Adam Rutherford

5.0

 What a great book! The breezy, informal style is exactly the type of thing that pleases me best: It didn't feel like it was trying to be funny or unstuffy or self-congratulatorily nerdy. It just was. I would like to read more by this pair (or check out their radio show or podcast) to get more of this style. The content, too, was pleasing: discussions and investigations about how we understand the universe and world, with, as far as I can tell from topics I'm more familiar with, accurate descriptions of the phenomena (if simplified) and careful acknowledgements of what's knowable and what's unknowable. The depth was necessarily curtailed, given that it was focused on breadth and accessibility, but it succeeded so well in what it set out to do, and what it set out to do was so nicely attuned to my own taste, that I am left wanting more.