Endless Universe was good though a bit bothersome at times.

I understand that, as competing theories, it is essential to point out the dissimilarities between the inflationary and cyclic models of the universe, but Steinhardt and Turok seemed like they were fighting their way out of a corner throughout the book — and they wrote it!

Being in a defensive stance for most of the book also made some of their arguments seem petty. On p.222 they basically claim that the inflation More...