Stephen W. Hawking - A Brief History of Time

"Boring, too sciencey"


"Have had this book 10 years and managed not to get past the first chapter."


"I consider myself a fairly intelligent person, yet I found this supposedly 'popular work' rather difficult to take in."


"I recognize that this book is considered a 'modern classic' on astrophysics. I like to consider myself a fairly intelligent person,"

OF COURSE YOU DO

YOU ALL FUCKING DO

"... I read about 25 pages and despite my best intentions, I could not bring myself to read the rest. Snooze...."


"a bit to text book reading"


"The math equations were far beyond me and probably most other college graduates."

(THE BOOK FAMOUSLY CONTAINS NO EQUATIONS OTHER THAN A FEW PASSING REFERENCES TO EINSTEIN'S E EQUALS M BY C SQUARED)


"Besides watching 'Star Trek' a couple hundred times, my exposure to physics has been limited to riding rollercoasters and reading a few physics book jackets. But this book was very hard to understand."


"I have had this book for 20 years and I still haven't finished reading it."


"I felt like I was under the spell of the Orb of Confusion every time I picked this up."


"Nice Book. But not new things. The theme is described before 1400 year in the Quran"


"Elsewhere it is also hard to agree that Hawking achieved something really convincing. He incures pre-arranged opinions rather undeliberated. As an example I exemplify the apes who type on a type writer so-and- so many million years and finally bring out a Sonnet of Shakespeare. That may be. But the error in reasoning is this: that there must be also somebody who knows that this is Shakespeare, let us read and like it! And then again million apes have to type for another billion years till the next work of Shakespeare. Only that nobody can remember the first work! This is how Hawking explains the evolution theory! This is all about facts! A poor performance of human reason! But impressing for the awestruck reader who holds no academic grade in physics! ... The laugh is always on the loser! ... I bet that Hawking likes Harry Potter!"


"It stinks like a spolied meat
The book ...is so much overrated... This book looks like a dustbin full of outdated concepts. The reader, please, do not be so fool to read this nonsense. Do not let anyone to blind you and try to open your own eyes. ..."


"If like you like to sit around and get bored, read this!
Before I read this book my views on thermo-dynamics was clouded by bordom and the fact that I have things that arn't boring to do. They are still the same now."


"A big dumb book...
I didn't read it because the cover looked stupid"


"I was open-minded before I read this 'book'. So ugly theory cannot describe our Universe. It looks like a religious movement with its invented concepts of black holes, big bang etc. This ugly theory deserves a public birning and we need a new generation of honest scientists and not that 'mafia circle' promoting their books to gain a dirty money.
Viva a new Science!!!"


"Are the praises for this book really recognition of Hawking's accomplishments or that he achieved them despite his physical infirmities?"


"Look at me I can't walk!"



"This review pertains to the audio version done by Michael Jackson."

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