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History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture : The Official "I Spend Too Much Money On Books" Thread		273	ElenaGwynne, Setembro 30
Non-Fiction Readers : What nonfiction are you reading in May 2008?		97	sqdancer, Setembro 12
Bug Collectors : Two CK Award Bugs		1	lucien, Setembro 11
999 Challenge : bell7's		195	bell7, Agosto 28
List Five Books Parlour Game : Magazines and Newspapers		6	jburlinson, Agosto 27
50 Book Challenge : bell7's 81-ish challenge in 2009		209	bell7, Agosto 26
The Green Dragon : Bored with my books!		13	rojse, Agosto 10
Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate		501	bookladykm, Agosto 8
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Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 25		353	moibibliomaniac, Agosto 5
Science! : Owned but unread		76	jmcgarve, Agosto 4
Non-Fiction Readers : 1001 non fiction books to read before you die		41	omaca, Julho 30
Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 24		331	hemlokgang, Julho 28
50 Book Challenge : honesttooth 50+(?) for 2009.		1	honesttooth, Julho 25
Progressive & Liberal! : Books you want the next President to take to the White House		90	Sandydog1, Julho 24
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50 Book Challenge : TAir reading and writing (also from cover to cover)		40	TAir, Julho 13
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Hogwarts Express : Add a Word Drop a Word 6		528	biblioholic29, Junho 9
History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture : Big Picture Library Suggestions		33	Essa, Maio 29
What Are You Reading Now? : Another Meme--please forgive me		57	jnwelch, Maio 19
999 Challenge : Boookywooky's 999 challenge		44	boookywooky, Maio 19
Happy Heathens : Make me a believer		254	varielle, Maio 18
What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home, April 2009 #2		160	elliepotten, Maio 12
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : AlcottAcre's 2009 Reads, Take 4		284	TadAD, Maio 3
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : petermc - 75(?) for 2009		310	petermc, Maio 1
Taggers! : Other people's weirdness		69	235711, Abril 27
Book talk : Another Silly Game - Part 20		504	hemlokgang, Abril 26
999 Challenge : Ilkka´s 999		14	VictoriaPL, Abril 21
What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 4 April 2009		192	kara1560, Abril 21
Build the Open Shelves Classification : A LITERATURE top-level... do we need it?		108	comfypants, Abril 16
The Green Dragon : The Most Important Book Ever Written Thread		56	JPB, Abril 12
What Are You Reading Now? : Books that came home with you in March 2009		414	richardderus, Abril 1
Literary Snobs : Most Britons Have Lied About The Books They Read.		70	semckibbin, Março 31
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Children's Literature : Message Board		46	theexiledlibrarian, Fevereiro 12
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999 Challenge : The book that challenges you the most?		39	cmbohn, Janeiro 19
Book talk : Hang Man VI		262	Jim53, Dezembro 2008
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999 Challenge : Innovatoria's		25	Irishoneyscotland, Novembro 2008
888 Challenge : Which category have you enjoyed reading the most? And which the least?		19	cmbohn, Outubro 2008
List Five Books Parlour Game : One Thing Leads to Another		249	Kasthu, Outubro 2008
The Green Dragon : Next Round of 'What are you Reading Now?'		245	mrgrooism, Outubro 2008
The Green Dragon : Justify Your Existance!		30	brlb21, Agosto 2008
The Green Dragon : Physics Book Help		10	ExVivre, Agosto 2008
888 Challenge : Me too! CMBohn's 888		69	cmbohn, Agosto 2008
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Hogwarts Express : What are you reading NOW.......IV		303	Whicker, Julho 2008
Happy Heathens : Ongoing Creationism vs. Evolution in education		12	dchaikin, Junho 2008
Book of the month club : What we read in May		63	Booksloth, Junho 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game Chapter 7		183	Booksloth, Junho 2008
The Green Dragon : Visual Puns: Book Titles		201	Arctic-Stranger, Maio 2008
Science Fiction Fans : Favorite Non-Fiction Books on Space		65	hermit_9, Maio 2008
Bestsellers over the Years : 1988		22	Shortride, Abril 2008
Adormecido: Pro and Con : Housekeeping		63	margd, Março 2008
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... I attended Sean Carroll's talk and I now have his From Eternity to Here on my wish list. I'm also finally starting A Brief History of Time, which has sat on my bookshelf for years now. All this has inspired me to ask: what are your favourite science books for non-specialists? I ...

Finished the following. Book reviews/digests available at http://booksontrial.wordpress.com/. 500 – Science A Brief History of Time The Elegant Universe Lives of a Cell THE MEDUSA AND THE SNAIL 600 – Technology The Brain That Changes Itself Blue Ocean Strategy Th ...

... sold it for triple what I had paid...always nice) and Brief History of the Dead. Although I own it, I haven't read Brief History of Time yet and it's a distant "tbr"...so I haven't added it. Of course, I have a bunch Harry Potter and I read the Alfred Hitchcock books as a child but I ...

The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking A rehash of A Brief History Of Time (reviewed here) . Hawking re-organized the materials in a tree-like, instead of a linear format, and elaborated further on ...

The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking A rehash of A Brief History Of Time (reviewed here) . Hawking re-organized the materials in a tree-like, instead of a linear format, and elaborated further on ...

... poetry, etc. The books themselves still have all the data. The only issue is how they show on the award page. 2. I added A Brief History of Time to the awards page for Royal Society Prize for Science Books Shortlist and ...

... What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Galdwell From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Benjamin Walter ...

... Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson 8. YA/Children's - The Last Knight by Hilari Bell 9. Books referred to on Lost - A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking So, in Award Winners and Books about Books I had two I can't decide between that will most likely be top contenders in my ...

I agree. Hawking's Brief History of Time is great. I should read that again!

... by Barbara Delinsky Hard Times by Charles Dickens The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side by Agatha Christie A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

... Hosler (it's a graphic novel explaining the evolution theory as told by Darwin himself to a cute tiny mite) Non-Fiction: A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking, explaining modern physics. Just for fun: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, about a boy on the Mississippi All books should ...

500's: 500 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 523 A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking 551 Krakatoa by Simon Winchester 598 A Supremely Bad Idea by Luke Dempsey

500 – Science The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid A Brief History of Time Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist The Elegant Universe Lives of a Cell (Finished) THE MEDUSA AND THE SNAIL (Finished) On Growth and Form The Eighth ...

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

... this is what I'm thinking so far. expect resistance ubik weapon x akira 4 dune messiah lolita a brief history of time Do Androids dream of electric sheep? But I'm open to suggestions. by all means.

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking who doesn't love astrophysics? Other than my mom of course...

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

... behind current scientific thought, and how much we really don't know about the earth and our universe. Since I read A Brief History of Time a few months before picking up this title, I was inevitably comparing and contrasting, especially during the early chapters when Bryson covers ...

... behind current scientific thought, and how much we really don't know about the earth and our universe. Since I read A Brief History of Time a few months before picking up this title, I was inevitably comparing and contrasting, especially during the early chapters when Bryson covers ...

... historically important books. In other words, books that changed society. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell The Republic by Plato The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx The W ...

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

>29 Garp, I was thinking of Big History this morning and should probably add more to my review, which I realize is about as slim as they come. I think by the time I got to the end, especially after all the talk of cereals (which bores me to death), I just wanted to get on with Christian and ...

That's it. Sorry, Polly, I won't bother giving you your Ts. This one wasn't as readable as A Brief History of Time, but it was still compelling reading. Your turn, djay!

A Brief History of Time

... uir The Wonder of Girls: Understanding the Hidden Nature of our Daughters by Michael Gurian The Gift by Cecilia Ahern A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking I Will Repay by Baroness Orczy I've also reclaimed some childhood books from a box in the attic, including some Beatrix Po ...

When I saw this preschooler reading A Brief History of Time while eating french fries at McDonald's, I thought I really should give it another try. But then when I heard George Bush was gonna pick it up right after re-reading My Pet Goat, that's when my mind was made up.

A Brief History of Time was one of my favourite books when I was in high school :-D

... part has a lot of Big Bang cosmology in it. Actually, reading it gave me the confidence to return and start over anew A Brief History of Time, long ago abandoned because I felt it was way over my head. Some of it is, of course, but I am actually halway through it this time because I feel ...

... uir The Wonder of Girls: Understanding the Hidden Nature of our Daughters by Michael Gurian The Gift by Cecilia Ahern A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking I Will Repay by Baroness Orczy I've also reclaimed some childhood books from a box in the attic, including some Beatrix Po ...

... -- fiction (currently Suttree ) -- broad/big history (currently Europe Between the Oceans ) -- science (currently A Brief History of Time ) -- ancient history (currently Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore ) -- literature (currently Aristophanes Plays ) -- american ...

... history Walden 515 Analysis A tour of the calculus 523 Specific celestial bodies and phenomena A brief history of time 530 Physics Einstein: his life and universe 531 Classical mechanics: Solid mechanics Six ideas that shaped physics: unit N 536 ...

... n 45. The Radiation Sonnets by Jane Yolen 46. Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher 47. Walden Two by B.F. Skinner 48. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking 49. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder 50. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister 51. Academ's ...

>125 Thanks, Jenson. Yeah, I almost gave up on A Brief History of Time which was crazy-complicated most of the time. Re: Fruits Basket, personally I would recommend you start with Volume 6. There's quite a bit of overlap and it revisits what you already saw about Kyo, but there are some ...

bell, you're moving right along, congrats! A Brief History of Time, yup, that's one I actually gave up on many years ago. Quantum physics is one of those things I wish I understood, but apparantly just cannot grasp! I have Stephen Hawkings' quasi biography in my tbr pile that I'm looking ...

I tried reading my family's copy of A Brief History of Time a few years ago and got about halfway through before my brain exploded. However, bearing in mind that I'm only 21 now, I'm thinking maybe it was a teeny bit ambitious at that point and I just bought myself a copy to try again! It may ...

... I was surprised at how quickly I accomplished it, and figured I'd try 100 instead of 80 - what the heck, right? Yeah, A Brief History of Time is by far one of the hardest books I've ever read. I'm sure there's stuff I didn't get and a lot more I just had to take his word for, but overall I ...

... you like The Eyre Affair. I love that series! This weekend I bought: The Elegant Universe (because I just finished A Brief History of Time and decided to hurt my brain even more) Case Histories by Kate Atkinson The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad and The Adventures of Tom S ...

... terms; everyone needs a light and fluffy read from time to time 15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? A Brief History of Time without a doubt 16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? I saw one of the Henry plays (I have no idea which one), and it's the ...

... myself skimming which only made it worse. And it was one of the few books I didn't bother to finish. I even finished A Brief History of Time (talked about on other threads today) so it's not like I don't have any stamina for difficult reads. The act of reading is so much about the ...

I read A Brief History of Time for the 888 challenge last year, and had the same feeling - I could read for so long, and then my brain just sort shut down. A very cool book, but not one I could read straight through.

48. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking The theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, and the search for a unified theory of the universe are the subjects of this mindboggling explication of physics (I found I could read about 5 pages at a time without my brain hurting). Perhaps I was ...

47. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Category: Lost Book Club The theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, and the search for a unified theory of the universe are the subjects of this mindboggling explication of physics (I found I could read about 5 pages at a time without my ...

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

... (in Finnish) 7. Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything (in Finnish) 8. Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time (in Finnish) 9. Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker (in Finnish)

... Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible by Bart D. Ehrman (touchstones not working) Paper version: Big History by Cynthia Brown Just finished Fate of the Jedi: Outcast by Aaron Allston

... winged) that's a bit different from my normal fare, but I enjoyed it enough to want to read the sequel. Now I've started A Brief History of Time for Lost-related reading. It's hurting my brain to read more than a few pages at a time, so I'm thinking of mixing it up with an easier, to-b ...

... Wake and haven't attempted Ulysses. I read The Selfish Gene at college (and The Double Helix), but I haven't read A Brief History of Time. PS The Proust thing: some people probably claim to have read Remembrance of Things Past because they are asked to tick titles on a poorly ...

... wouldn't. But if, say, there were a book called "Best Non-fiction Writing," and it included representative chapters from A Brief History of Time, Freakonomics, and Godel, Escher, Bach, etc., I wouldn't call for it to be shelved as literature. I wouldn't know what to call it, but it wouldn' ...

... resonates in my mind when I look into the night sky. For a new generation however, there are new voices: Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time, 1988), Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe, 1999), Simon Singh (Big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe, 2005), and of course, Leonard Susskind, ...

>177 bell7 - Good luck with A Brief History of Time - I tried reading it once but I got about a third of the way through and my brain nearly exploded with the complexity of it all! I'm a bit older now, maybe I'll try it again sometime! I couldn't be bothered to go to town myself today - I ...

From the library today: Naruto Vol. 26 by Masashi Kishimoto A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris

... no other explanation, I mean it made a significant impact in its field or it's very famous in its field. For instance, "Oh, A Brief History of Time is a very important book..." etc.

... text, which could easily be read by a layperson if they wanted a basic grounding in the field? Or something like A Brief History of Time, which is clearly intended for a popular audience but which some people may find too challenging?

... by Richard Adams 12. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Alternates: 1. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 2. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking 3. Delta of Venus by Anais Nin 4. The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie 5. Light Years and Dark, edited by Michae ...

... Healing Arts: Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1500-1800 by Peter Elmer (Reading) 6. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (TBR) 7. Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry (Reading) 8. 9.

Yes A Brief History of Time it is. This book was so lauded that I felt I had to read it... I got to about page 16. You were so close applebook1.... but It's over to you jmcgarve.

A Brief History of Time

Oooh, I'm looking forward to your science and physics books. I read A Brief History of Time for the 888 challenge. It was my slowest one to get through, but I was glad I did. Are you a scientist?

... spark. That's my belief. Doesn't have to be yours. Probably isn't. That's okay with me. I recently listened to A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and was happy to hear him discuss God and quarks and relativity as part of a unified whole theory.

... I don't want to just breeze through. I want to choose some outside my normal comfort zone. This year I read Chaos and A Brief History of Time, and those were challenging for me. But I'm glad I did it.

... The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 3. Walden Two by B.F. Skinner 4. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking 5. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 6. Everything That Rises Must Converge ...

... And the hardest was the science/history category. Mostly because I picked big books for that, and one of them was A Brief History of Time, which just about blew my mind.

... Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain Empires of the Word: a Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

From macygma's library: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking looks fascinating!

#57 The universe is infinite. Unlikely. Hawking says that it is finite but unbounded in A Brief History of Time.

I was surprised to find many references to God in A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking and although I'm already a monotheist (but not a Christian), I was very comforted by his integration of scientific theory and God. Of course, most of the science was way beyond me but I really ...

... e The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger To Catch a Thief by David Dodge A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

... above. Stephen Hawkings later books do touch on string theory I think, though it's been such a long time since I read A brief history of time that I can't remember if it's in there.

I'll start off by admitting that I am STILL trying to finish A Brief History of Time. Let me just say that brief does not mean easy! I keep having to reread paragraphs because I don't understand a thing he just said. Got to the chapter about imaginary time and that was just too much. But I am ...

... they've worked out all of Joyce's allusions they'll have 12,000 pages of epic poetry to get through. Alternate Selection: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Movies: The Best of Youth and then Toy Story in the hopes that it would make them a little softer. Music: ...

Only 1 and 1/2 books to go! Still reading A Brief History of Time and the Battle of the Labyrinth.

... explained by Pascal Boyer, Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda, How to Practise by Dalai lama, A Brief History of Time by Stphen Hawking, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, Illuminatus, Part 2, The Golden Apple by Robert Shea. ...

... home that Mike Stanley's wife bought liquor!" She was dead serious. She had to mail order it. I recently listened to A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and he mentions God all the time in his discussions of the creation of the universe. I found it quite wonderful.

Right now, I'm reading A Brief History of Time and also a murder killer suspense novel. And I am also going to start reading DragonHarper today, hopefully.

... the way to and from work - about 35 minutes each way after I drop my daughter off. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking A Right to Die by Rex Stout I actively disliked The Mermaid Chair. It's all in my review. I loved A Brief History of Ti ...

#155 RcCarol - abridgements bother me too. I won't listen to them either. I finished A Brief History of Time on the way home Friday. I started A Right to Die by Rex Stout this morning on the way to work this morning.

... finding it tough going right now. It's my April ER book, though, so will continue. ETA #77 margiek - I am listening to A Brief History of Time - whew! Complicated concepts. I also have the book and have started looking at the pictures on some of the stranger concepts.

I just finished A Brief History of Time: "From the Big Bang to Black Holes" by Stephen Hawking. Although it was written for the lay person I still found it rather technical, but then I have never been a huge physics fan. However I quite enjoyed it overall.

... but it still didn't grab me. So, i turned it in to the library and got 3 different audiobooks. The winner is.... A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I have no clue as to why this is in my player right now, but so far I'm enjoying it. Some of it is already a stretch, but ...

... 9.The Soul Thief 10.Dealing With Dragons 11.Dragon Prince 15.Of Mice and Men 16.Anna and the King of Siam 18.A Brief History of Time 21.To Kill a Mockingbird 24.Don Quixote 28.the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbons 39.Moby Dick 43.Bury My Heart at ...

A Brief History of Time? Just a guess. Not pretending I read it.

#15: Awww, look at the little micies! :) A History of Time Makes it sound rather more exciting, eh?

I've only read two from this batch ~ A Brief History of Time and Queen of the Damned. Hawking lost me somewhere around the middle, when he was talking about quarks, I think it was, but I kept the book and intend to get back to it sometime. I'm hoping my mind has matured enough, without my ...

For cosmology, perhaps Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time. I haven't read much popular science works in that area. The First Three Minutes by S Weinberg is not one I've read, but may be worth considering. For evolution by natural selection, Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Ge ...

I have read Alaska and A Brief History of Time. As usual, Michener took 100+ pages to get up to speed. Coming Into the Country by John McPhee, published in 1977, is a much better book on Alaska, as is Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss. For the gold rush era, you can’t beat Klo ...

Good ones, T.L. True confession: I tried to read BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME by Stephen Hawking, even bought a companion volume to help with the science...and got lost on the table of contents. What I know about physics (or most of the sciences for that matter) would fit comfortably in a ...

... you corner one of the employees? I couldn't imagine any B&N would phase out the section that contains The Right Stuff, A Brief History of Time, On the Origin of Species and Richard Dawkins books.

... at the end of Opticks, and you'll probably know more about what Newton was up to than most textbook writers! I found Brief History of time a bit te-di-ous, too many anecdotes and not enough pictures. But that's probably partly rectified by the later expanded editions. I went through it ...

... Human Genome Project. - done 2. Weighing the soul - About scientific discoveries that caused controversy. - done 3. A Brief History of Time - done 4. Chaos: making a New Science - done 5. Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars - done 6. Krakatoa:The Day the World Exploded - ...

... a slight amendment, I was able to make delicious oat bran muffins, and I did this for about 5 years. I also have read A Brief History of Time, which I thought was a pretty good read. Apparently lots of people bought this, but didn't read it. There is a thread about this somewhere on LT. ...

Okay, I have a few. The Canterbury Tales which I have started and read a few, but never finished. A Brief History of Time, sitting around here somewhere. And maybe Moby Dick, but I'm not sure I'll really ever bother with that one. I've tried twice and just couldn't get into it at all. I ...

... ran The Hebrew Bible The Book of Cocord The Book of Common Prayer Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems A Brief History of Time Harry Potter and the Socerer's stone- :) edit for stupid touchstones

... because it's in Latin and secondly because I wouldn't be able to make head or tale of it. I gave up about three pages into A Brief History of Time which is (supposedly) dumbed-down for non-scientists like me.

... they are finished. This year I might finish Paradise Lost and One Hundred Years of Solitude and more long term - A Brief History of Time and Hawking's revision of those theories. sigh.

... nyah.) Be creative. Catherine Earnshaw, the main character in Wuthering Heights with Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time I know, one's fictional, one's real. I didn't say this had to make sense.

... author. Showing by title would list the books alphabetically, as Tim wants. I guess this will mean that 1984 and A brief history of time will probably be there, and it will probably be fairly meaningless to most power users, but perhaps others will like it. (My library includes lots ...

... wackiest ideas. The scientific method is all about trying to break the working hypothesis. As Stephen Hawking says in A Brief History of Time, "...any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis; you can never prove it. No matter how many times the ...

... authors. Ayn Rand is another: anything by her. Anything in the Popular Science vein - a contradiction in terms. Stephen Hawking, for example, or Richard Dawkins or, worst of all, David Attenborough, Dickie's brother. Anything remotely religious, or same difference, to do ...

#17, A brief history of time has indeed been made in to a movie. I think I have even seen it and it wasn't boring at all. See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103882/ I listed some of my favorite findings in this thread http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=18817 , message #136, but I ...

... to Salmon of doubt - really I don't think so, I'm only aware of one of Adams' works having a movie Also applied into A brief history of time Just how dull would that be, And Stephen doens't have any movies to his credit surely?

... with a bad case of Palahniuk masochism. The last one I read was Choke, although a more appropriate name would have been Do (incredibly rude word for the developmentally disabled) dream of deformed sheep?.

... I think there an issue of what a review is. Let's look at two situations: If I emailed you and asked for a review of a Brief History of Time and you sent me the review you wrote I wouldn't consider it a review in the standard book review sense like the NYT's has. If I saw you on a ...

... be grateful that only two were flagged. I then went and looked at all the reviews for these two books (The Hobbit and A brief history of time) and it seems that all the short reviews have been flagged. Yes, they're short, but most of them say something about the book and are in fact ...

I'm reading Big Mind Big Heart by Dennis Genpo Merzel. It includes a CD.

... and evolution and nuclear physics and nature in general and then asked them how many books such as The Selfish Gene, A Brief History of Time and The Elegant Universe and so on they had read? When they said they hadn't, I said that it would be a bit difficult to have a mature discussion ...

... hundreds (if not thousands) of books that are more intelligent, better written and have less hype. Another example is A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Hyped in a different way than Harry Potter but still seen as being the latest accessory to have. I did finish it but found ...

Our group to establish a library on the peninsula has a book sale going over this holiday week-end. I just returned with The big change America from 1900 - 1950 by Frederick Lewis Allen. A sturdy copy of Rebecca so my daughter can read it. The years of the locust Loula Erdman The girl ...

... and space and the books which can be produced therein. I must admit to wanting to complete (and understand) Hawking's A Brief History of Time and perhaps i could have expressed myself earlier with apt meaning if i had done so.... My microscope is not working today, so i will leave the ...

I'm no less guilty of this than anyone, but I actually HAVE read A Brief History of Time, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and On the Origin of Species. So much for bragging. I have Naturalist and Consilience by Edwar O. Wilson. And how about Betrayal of Science and Reason by Ehrlich and Ehrlich ...

I'm no less guilty of this than anyone, but I actually HAVE read A Brief History of Time, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and On the Origin of Species. So much for bragging. I have Naturalist and Consilience by Edwar O. Wilson. And how about Betrayal of Science and Reason by Ehrlich and Ehrlich ...

... extraordinarily evocative for the genre. I think the hardest for me to ever get through was Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time, probably because I spent a lot of time going back and re-reading things because I just didn't understand it, like most people I know.

... too. For you I choose : Well its hard you've got a wide range of Tbr's, Storm Front is great and you should read it, A brief history of Time is different and would make a change of pace, but I'm going to settle for The Losers a contemporary novel by one fo the stalwarts of fantasy. I ...

... on it too. Maybe some of Stephen Jay Gould s too as a counterpoint. The original Origin of the Species is a must. A brief history of Time and maybe some of the more recent follow-ups. I'm not so hot on the more social science side so maybe someone else can add some of these. How ...

... der wir leben (as a kid, I was fascinated by the detailed pictures of animal and plant life on pre-historical Earth), and A brief history of time. Since I work with computers, I also collect historical storage media: floppy disks of various sizes, magnetic tapes, cartridges, floppy ROM, ...

... Time Machine and The Outline of History, the latter using the former. Steven Hawking of A Brief History of Time (and in his mid twenties) is also there and may turn out to be hero or villain or neither.

... enjoyed it and I plan on reading the series with him this year. We have a huge stack to read. I see someone recommended Holes, we haven't read or seen that yet. Usually, we try to read the book before we watch the movie. Believe it or not, we have not read the Harry Potter series yet. ...

... Away From Omelas" The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero by Robert Kaplan Leaves of Grass Whitman A Brief History of Time Hawking The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Waiting for Godot Beckett A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn

Holes has been a big hit with our ESL class of Korean boys (ages 13-15, mainly). They are all very smart and can get by in English, but they're not too experienced in reading as opposed to memorising and translation. and Holes really has made one boy take off and ask for more books to read. ...

... Gibran. King was a former Prime Minister known to have talked with his dead mother :-) I like The Hobbit next to Holes! AlannaSmithee - very apt :-D

... outdated. Just can't see how The Second World War by John Keegan made it. But neither The Decline of the West or a brief history of time did. The Second World War by Winston S. Churchill The Struggle for Europe Chester Wilmot The Campaign of the Marne Sewell Tyn ...

... are the top science books that everyone buys, and almost no one actually reads? My nominations: Gödel, Escher, Bach and A Brief History of Time.

... the last time I posted (about a week ago) I've bought A Game of Thrones ($4, new) The Good Earth (20 cents, used) A Brief History of Time ($1, used)... which I'm frankly somewhat embarrassed I didn't already own Nextwave Vol. 1: This Is What They Want! ($20, new) Y: The Last Man Vo ...

My daughter watched Holes by Sachar at school then they read it in class. I bought it for her and my son read it and loved it. My partner read it, he loved it too. I bought The boy who lost his face for my daughter, we're now waiting in a disorderly queue for her to finish with it! Just ...

... That could almost be its own topic. Of the recent winners, I would give a big thumbs up to Criss Cross Kira-Kira Holes Walk Two Moons (yay, Sharon Creech, she's awesome) A Year Down Yonder (Richard Peck, pretty awesome, too) I'm not so keen on Crispin The Tale ...