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This is an entertaining book, in the way that all popular science books can be entertaining. The stories are good, the scope is vast, it's Cosmos in book form.
I wish someone had prepared me for how US-centric the book was though. It's pretty obviously written exclusively for American audiences, to the point that the analogies and hyperboles used are almost meaningless to people who didn't grow up in the USA. It got very annoying. Why hasn't this been rewritten for a global audience? ...more
I wish someone had prepared me for how US-centric the book was though. It's pretty obviously written exclusively for American audiences, to the point that the analogies and hyperboles used are almost meaningless to people who didn't grow up in the USA. It got very annoying. Why hasn't this been rewritten for a global audience? ...more
Aptly titled, it talks about literally everything. I listened to this on Audible and it was surprisingly smooth sailing, I did find taking notes while listening a bit difficult but It was well worth it. The author tries to clear up questions that you always had in your mind for e.g. “What really is the big bang all about?”, “How did life came to be?”, “What’s the deal with dinosaurs going extinct?”. There were certain parts in the book where you felt like slogging but overall, the author and the
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