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    <body><![CDATA[This book puts me in mind of the story about how a Harvard number theorist, through some malfunction of the scheduling computer, got assigned to teach an introductory course in pre-calculus. Being one of those individuals to whom math came so easily that they couldn't grasp how difficult others foun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32454332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hawking is a brilliant physicist and a true expert in explaining highly complex aspects of our physical universe in terms that can be understood by most lay people.<br/><br/>Where Hawking fails, in my opinion, is his hubris.  He proceeds in to the realm of metaphysics and religion in several porti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5363928">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is not clear to me who is in the target audience for this book. At times it tries to explain basic concepts of modern physics in simple language, and at other times it assumes a familiarity with the same subject. For the first time I think I &quot;understand&quot; why absolute time is not consist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6618727">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The main idea to take away from this book is that time has a clear direction. Entropy is the idea that the universe moves from highly ordered states to less ordered states.  If you take the lid off a bottle of perfume, and leave it off for a few days the perfume will go from being highly ordered (al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10153472">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I had a slightly more evolved brain than I do, or were as brilliantly smart as, say, Stephen Hawking (or my equally brilliant science-minded fiance), I may give this book 4 or 5 stars. I'm pretty certain it deserves 4 or 5 stars. But my brain is only (I like to think) a bit above average. And so,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73498480">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was while reading this that I finally had an &quot;aha&quot; moment about why it is that observation can change what you're trying to observe.  I was always kind of skeptical of this, because I was wondering &quot;what is it that our eyes do that could possibly affect things?&quot;  Stephen Hawki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25553727">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the Illustrated Brief History of Time because I was hoping it would have helpful visual depictions of the complex theories and concepts that Hawking describes - and it did.<br/><br/>Overall, this book was pretty good, but I guess the biggest problem I had with it was that Hawking never real...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29164227">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Copy from a briefer history review since very similar books.<br/><br/>It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. <br/><br/>That was somehow lost in our information generation. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26698573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although the information and subject matter was very interesting, <em>A Brief History of Time</em> may stick out more as something to show how insanely smart Stephen Hawking and other famous scientists and mathematicians are.  Often while reading, one gets lost in the ideas presented and the possibilities th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54809286">more...</a>]]></body>
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