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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly in the UK, many people bought Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" when it was first published, and would leave it on show to illustrate how intellectual they were. Few, I suspect, read it - not that it's a difficult book.
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Yep. Google 'Hawking Index'

. I never really understood that; as you say, the book isn't difficult at all. Penrose's '
The Road to Reality', now...fantastic book, but it took me three weeks to get through. And copious amounts of skull sweat