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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
The first time I "read" it was via an audiobook that I checked out from my local library. Reading your post got me interested in re-reading it. Since it is not available in e-book format (at least, I couldn't find it), yesterday I purchased an unabridged audiobook version of A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking from Audible.com. After listening to the first three chapters, I have to revise what I said about the book being "dry." It's not dry at all. It's fascinating, and a whole lot more accessible than I remember.
Perhaps, my revised opinion comes from the fact that it has been 20 years since my first reading, and I've read an awful lot of science blogs since then. |
Did you get the original or the updated
A Briefer History of Time?
From the Foreword:
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In the years since A Brief History of Time was published, feedback has come in from readers of all ages, of all professions, and from all over the world. One repeated request has been for a new version, one that maintains the essence of A Brief History yet explains the most important concepts in a clearer, more leisurely manner. Although one might expect that such a book would be entitled A Less Brief History of Time, it was also clear from the feedback that few readers are seeking a lengthy dissertation befitting a college-level course in cosmology. Thus, the present approach. In writing A Briefer History of Time we have maintained and expanded the essential content of the original book, yet taken care to maintain its length and readability. This is a briefer history indeed, for some of the more technical content has been left out, but we feel we have more than compensated for that by the more probing treatment of the material that is really the heart of the book.
We have also taken the opportunity to update the book and include new theoretical and observational results. A Briefer History of Time describes recent progress that has been made in finding a complete unified theory of all the forces of physics.
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