I have now read 4 of the books that were nominated for June and I think we ended up with one of the better ones, both for discussion and for quality.
Gulp is a lot of fun and well written but a bit hard to stomach sometimes; I'm also not sure how good the discussion would have been. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is a VERY high level primer, as it was intended, but that didn't translate into a great book for me. Overall, I like hearing NGT talk more than I like his writing. What If? is also a lot of fun but I am not sure it would have lead to great discussion.
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