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A Short History of Nearly Everything
April 2019: History
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A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson - 4*
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I saw this while volunteering at my library, it looked like it might be fun reading-thanks for sharing!
I was wondering about this one, and I like the details you gave us. Mary Roach is a familiar name to me. I think I have a book by her somewhere. I should look for it when I want something funny.
In this book, Bryson covers basically the origins of the universe all the way to us. He's an amazing vulgariser, I always stayed interested, even with the physics parts, and the super-string theory with its 26 dimensions is the only part that really lost me! Of course I preferred the bio part, and loved learning about all sorts of things that I feel like we SHOULD learn in class, but we don't. Like the fact that basically everything we know about cavemen is more or less made up since we have like three skeletons to build on...
It's not hilarious (à la Mary Roach), but it is light-hearted and there are funny little bits that make it not long and boring to read. It took me nearly a month to get through it, because it can't be read like a regular novel, but I think it was very worth it and enjoyed it a bunch.