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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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I am currently reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and I am loving it so far. I am only a few chapters in, but I anticipate that this will be a faster read than I originally thought.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
... are on my TBR shelf. I'm trying to read through all the books I own before I go out and buy more. Let's see...I have: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Testimony by Anita Shreve, Stran ...
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
... I know of some of the cool things that are hidden in the Natural History Museum (Bill Bryson told us a bit about it in A Short History of Nearly Everything ).
I haven't read either Diamond books, but I am really looking forward to both. I might put Guns, Germs and Steel on my 1010 list ...
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson's A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING (mentioned on another thread) is a good book for laymen. I love science fiction but sometimes the science loses me--and math, well, don't even go there.
We've had a couple of road trips of late and have been enjoying listening to Bill Bryson (including his A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING ). He's a lot of fun and I also recommend David Sedaris, who is hilarious and an excellent reader...
This is a toughy. Off the top of my head I'd have to pick:
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel by the same dude
1776* by David McCullough
and finally
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
* Picke ...
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
#19: A Short History of Nearly Everything is a great book. It does have a lot of info, but Bryson is such a good writer that I absorbed it easily.
As for five books I really like, in no particular order:
Maria McCann's As Meat Loves Salt
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Margaret Atwood's T ...
I just LOVE Bryson! Sunburned Country was one of my least favorite, but I can't recommend A Short History of Nearly Everything highly enough. I've listened to the audio twice and read it once. The Thunderbolt Kid is also quite good.
... my way through all the rest of his books. My second favorite is A walk in the woods which is great. I also really liked A Short History of Nearly Everything although damn, get ready for a load of info! And Life and Times of a Thunderbolt Kid was a lot of fun. The rest of his books after ...
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1. The inimitable Jeeves
2. Notes from a Small Island
3. A short history of nearly Everything
4. Misery loves Cabernet
5. Her Royal Spyness
6. Through the Fire
7. The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy
8. Carbs and Cadavers ...
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything is a stunner. Have fun and be prepared to learn a lot. I am constantly amazed at what a quick study Bryson is. He understands a subject and explains it so well that I can't imagine anybody writing about any subject he picks any better.
... Bryson's the best thing I've found to pass that time. A Walk in the Woods is great, and the somewhat abridged version of A Short History of Nearly Everything is even better.
Oh, also Dan Simmons' book Drood. It's very long (it'd take you there and back, I have no doubt), but the guy who ...
... Idea, or Dawkins's Climbing Mount Improbable and the more recent The Greatest Show on Earth)
Catch-22
1984
A Short History of Nearly Everything
I, Claudius
Ulysses
The Grapes of Wrath
With honourable mentions to The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, One Hundred ...
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500 – Science
500 A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
510: Mathematics
520: Astronomy and Allied Science
520 The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space - Jim Labans
522 Miss Leavitt's Stars - George Johnson
526 Longitude - Dava Sobel
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... for gathering useless bits of knowledge so a whole book about someone who did that... per magic. I liked Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything for the same reasons (not just because I worship the man and his writing).
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
... teleportation (or entanglement more generally) violates special relativity. (Bill Bryson mistakenly claims this in A Short History of Nearly Everything
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
... honest, as I'm in the Dawkins/Wilson camp when considering evolutionary science, but Gould was certainly a genius)
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson (popular overview of modern science)
That's all I can think of off the top of my mind. If I stuck at it, I'm sure I could ...
From jennieg's library I would pick A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I'm currently reading Neither Here Nor There which is the first one I've read of his books and I would like to read more at some point in time.
I am reading the very impressive, A short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. It is absolutely fascinating in its scale. Its raw knowledge written in such an easy going prose.
... Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
77. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (audio)
78. Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce
79. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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... forward to reading it. I just need to finish the other two books I've started first.
Stopped at B&N tonight. Picked up A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
... - I always feel a little guilty when I don't like a book that's a quintessential childhood favorite. I hope you enjoy A Short History of Nearly Everything . :-)
... forever, etc etc... Maybe I was too young, I'll have to give it one more chance perhaps.
Thanks for the review of A Short History of Nearly Everything - I bought it years ago now, I think, and I love Bill Bryson, but for some reason I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I might ...
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... Lions of al-Rassan, I think I'll try it after finishing up a few more library books.
I've finally finished a book - A Short History of Nearly Everything , which was a really fun introduction to lots of science.
79. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Have you ever wondered about the origins of the universe or the workings of a cell? This introduction to many different branches of science gives you a taste of the history of how we know what we know (and what we think we know) about ...
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Have you ever wondered about the origins of the universe or the workings of a cell? This introduction to many different branches of science gives you a taste of the history of how we ...
... Kay? From what I've heard, I think I would like his writing but don't know where to start.
I'm also still reading A Short History of Nearly Everything and David Copperfield. For a lighter read, I started Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is hilarious so far.
I'm plugging away at David Copperfield, and also reading The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. All are enjoyable, but I'm not sure what possessed me to read three 500+ page books at once...
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I'm interested in science at a purely amateur level and find it difficult to get on with science books in general, but his A Short History of Nearly Everything was astonishing in how much complexity I managed to grasp. A true testimonial to the author, I assure you!
I'm currently reading Down ...
From the library:
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce and
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (so excited to read this one!)
... 1/3 of the way in), but I'm enjoying the story so far and the characters are fabulous.
I've decided to stop listening to A Short History of Nearly Everything because I've completely lost track of its thread, but I've started reading it instead, so I'll have to select a new audiobook tonight.
... Highly recommended. 5 stars.
Currently reading - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Currently listening to - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
... for this book, but I literally couldn't put it down.
I'm slowly but surely reading David Copperfield, and listening to A Short History of Nearly Everything (unfortunately not read by the author, Bill Bryson).
... authors. I have read everything he's written, so I hope he's busy writing something new! One of my favorites of his is A Short History of Nearly Everything . Have you read it?
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... Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond and thought it was absolutely fantastic. I also very much enjoyed Bill Bryson's A short history of nearly everything especially because of the personal stories he blends into it - to me it's fascinating how they discovered all these things. Especially ...
#3 A Short History of Nearly everything
Author: Bill Bryson
Read: Feb 2
Category: LT ER/Recommendations
Pages: 384 of 960
I have to admit that I did not finish this book. I couldn't listen to another disc. This book was FILLED and I mean FILLED with facts and data regarding all ...
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1. The inimitable Jeeves
2. Notes from a Small Island
3. A short history of nearly Everything
4. Misery loves Cabernet
5. Her Royal Spyness
6. Through the Fire
7. The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy
8. Carbs and Cadavers ...
... me to new books and authors. Among them:
Half a Yellow Sun
The Book Thief
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Short History of Nearly Everything and then all of Bill Bryson's books.
World War Z
Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
I'm sure there are many more, but ...
Are we now looking at 2009? For me a toss up between Tim Flannery The Future Eaters and Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything.
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6. Hannu Karttunen: Vanhin tiede: Tähtitiedettä kivikaudesta kuulentoihin (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 ...
Net een ongelooflijk goed boek beeindigd: Een kleine geschiedenis van bijna alles , van Bill Bryson. Dat boek zal me nog lang bijblijven! Zeker een aanrader.
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27) Short story? Roman Fever by Edith Wharton or The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
28) Work of nonfiction? A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson or anything by Frederick Lewis AllenAgatha Christie or Dorothy Saye ...
#16: I like Bryson as well, with the possible exception of A Short History of Nearly Everything which was too long and did not have as much of his characteristic humor to suit me.
LOL Sandydog!
And since I'm here, I'm choosing A Short History of Nearly Everything which doesn't look too short, but perhaps something I can keep at my bedside.
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10.1 A magnificent catastrophe : the tumultuous election of 1800
10.2 Thomas Jefferson:genius of liberty
10.3 A short history of nearly Everything
10.4 My Man Jeeves
10.5 Notes from a Small Island
10.6 The inimitable Jeeves
10.7 Jefferson's Vendetta
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... good summary in standard wiki style:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_History
I own the Bill Bryson Big History book A Short History of Nearly Everything but have not read it yet.
I'm afraid never did get round to adding a full review for A short history of nearly everything (see messages 161 and 162) as I didn't really feel I could add anything to my brief notes there without re-reading it and the time just hasn't been right to do so (too many other books I haven't read ...
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson read in 2006.
... of the month was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
American Sphinx: The character of Thomas Jefferson
A short history of nearly Everything
Crocodile on the sandbank
Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter (Analysis of Books 1-4)
Quidditch through ...
... of the month was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
American Sphinx: The character of Thomas Jefferson
A short history of nearly Everything
Crocodile on the sandbank
Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter (Analysis of Books 1-4)
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... novels about real scientists.
Interestingly, if you do "science, fiction, -sci-fi" you get mostly non-fiction books (A short history of nearly everything , Gödel Escher Bach, The origin of species, The god delusion) - I don't know if that's evidence of malicious tagging, or just ...
I haven't read A short History of Nearly Everything but I have read The Gunslinger
I haven't read Ink Exchange but I have read A Short History of Nearly Everything to continue the Bryson theme.
... handle any more. This was one of the most boring books that I have "read" in a long time. It ranks right up there with A Short history of nearly everything by the same author. I guess I'm just not one of his fans.
... handle any more. This was one of the most boring books that I have "read" in a long time. It ranks right up there with A Short history of nearly everything by the same author. I guess I'm just not one of his fans.
More books for my TBR list
An Excellent Mystery
A Short History of Nearly Everthing
Moving Pictures
Saving Fish from Drowning
The Sourcerer's Companion
Hogfather
I'm now reading: Marley & Me, In the Land Of Invisible Women, Always Coming Home, An Excellent Myst ...
A Short History was the first Bryson I read and I loved all of it. Based on that, I went on to I'm a Stranger Here Myself and finished it only through sheer determination. Since then, I've been reluctant to try another Bryson, but I've been considering his Shakespeare book.
I never read anything else by Bryson but A Short History of Nearly Everything . The first parts about astonomy, physics and chemistry were a bit hard, but the rest was easier (geology, archeology and biology are more my cup of tea). I liked the book very much.
I finished American Sphinx and decided to give up on A short history of nearly everything . Now I'm listening to Crocodile on the Sandbank and reading Ultimate Unofficial guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter.
Saw your review of Bill Bryson (not finished Short History of Nearly --I have to agree with you BORING . Could not finish it either. Maybe another time....Do try his other stuff tho. This is the only one I've ever had a problem with.
Absolutely A Short History of Nearly Everything is not the best place to start when first trying Bryson. Notes from a Small Island is much much better, humourous and totally sums up the UK :)
Oooh - I've been a bit slack here these last few days, but Daisy - A Short History of Nearly Everything is my favourite book from him - the first I ever read, and the only one my hubby and I have both read twice. He's great fun, and almost everything I've read of his has been a real pleasure, ...
I agree with LisaCurio that with Bryson's books A Short History of Nearly Everything is not a good place to start! I read it last year and you are right - it is looooongg. Lisa's suggested books are by far a better introduction to his writing.
I am a great big fan of Bill Bryson, but I wouldn't go near A Short History of Nearly Everything . I have devoured every one of his other books (except for the one about American English which does not seem to have been sold here in Canada) and laughed myself silly or just thoroughly enjoyed them. ...
I gave up on A Short History of Nearly Everything too. I got bogged down about 100 pages in... I love maths, but my physics and chem and general scientific aptitude are non-existent!! It's embarrassing, and I might try again one day when every other book in the house is read ;)
Some bits of ...
#21 A Short History of Nearly everything
Author: Bill Bryson
Read: Feb 2
Category: Humor
Pages: 384 of 960
I have to admit that I did not finish this book. I couldn't listen to another disc. This book was FILLED and I mean FILLED with facts and data regarding all types of ...
#21 A Short History of Nearly everything
Author: Bill Bryson
Read: Feb 2
Category: Humor
Pages: 384 of 960
I have to admit that I did not finish this book. I couldn't listen to another disc. This book was FILLED and I mean FILLED with facts and data regarding all types of ...
I'm still reading American Sphinx and started listing to A short history of nearly everything and I'm not sure that I will finish it because it has way too much scientific detail and it's putting me to sleep!
If I was honest, and not choosing to get the best effect, I would take Ken Wilber's A Short History of Everything (wrong touchstone). His philosophy is very inclusive and suits me very well. I was thrilled when I read this book. But I am quite sure almost no one else would find it thrilling. ...
... on Medicine and Natural History, less on meterology and astronomy together with things like The Blind Watchmaker and A Short History of Nearly Everything . So I need two or three lower levels, at least, to tidily deal with my shelving - and to facilitate searching. I can't see the ...
... I'm about to get into some meaty ones, and I'm in the process of reading Pillars of the Earth, and listening to A Short History of Nearly Everything - 13 discs by Bill Bryson, sp my adding to the list will be slowing down. I'm also starting an adult ed class tonite on designing web ...
... for magazines that publishers dutifully collected into books periodically. Most of these are somewhat similar to Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , though written with much more technical understanding. I enjoyed many of them and where else can you find a contention that many ...
#40 I read Short History when it first came out, and another Bryson book that I can't remember the name of where he did a driving tour around the USA. I loved Short History, the other was just OK. I've seen his Shakespeare book, but have been putting it off. I'm beginning to think I need ...
... I'll probably set aside time to read it next weekend instead of reading it during breaks in my day like I have been with A Short History of Nearly Everything .
A few comments about the books I've been reading: I've been reading A Short History of Nearly Everything while the doctor I'm ...
#69 - Tututhefirst - I just love Bill Bryson, especially on audio! A Short History of Nearly Everything and A Walk in the Woods are both excellent.
Ivy - I plan to read A Short History of Nearly Everything soon having enjoyed the Shakespeare one so much.
... sanddancer. I have this book on my list, but knew little about it. Now I'm even more eager to read it!
I read Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everthing a couple of years ago, found it very entertaining and extremely informative.
... Classics' edition but I just read the actual story, skipping all the notes, timelines etc.
I also finished A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I read this in spits and spurts but I found it extremely interesting and, for the most part, understandable. This ...
#69 A Short History of Nearly Everything taught me chemistry.... after I failed it twice in high school.
... Story That Isn't As Good - Roman Dirge
American Splendor: Our Movie Year - Harvey Pekar
Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
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1. A Short History of Nearly Everything —Bill Bryson
2. Phantoms in the Brain—V.S. Ramachandran
3. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid—Douglas Hofstadter
4. Flatland—Edwin A. Abbot
Finished A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson, a short review on my 75 thread .
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Een kleine geschiedenis van bijna alles by Bill Bryson
translation of A Short History of Nearly Everything
A short history of natural science, starting rougly in the 17th century up to recent developments.
The first parts concentrating on physics and chemistry were the hardest to ...
I am reading off and on A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson, not an easy or quick read but intresting!
Stepehn.andrew.brown - do you mind if I ask you to chose a different book as I did read A short history of nearly everything in 2005 and it already has plenty of reviews - mostly fairly favourable. I didn't do a full review, but my comments when I read it were 'Very readable and interesting, with ...
Just jumping in here.
fancett, read Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything .
If you're picking for me, anything in my library's fair game. I've not allowed myself to add things I don't own yet because I don't want my list to get unmanageable.
I finally read some non-fiction ;-)
After Marley and me, I now started A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson.
hehe very welcome porchy my friend!
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson came to me today, used from Amazon. A very nice copy!
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Flowers For Algernon
No Country For Old Men
The 19th Wife
Mort
A Short History Of Nearly Everything
The Book Of Lost Things
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
The Three Musketeers
Wyrd Sisters
The Year Of Magical Thinking
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... you'll regret it!
At the moment, I am currently reading The Princess Bitchface Syndrome by Michael Carr-Gregg and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
... information along with their travel.
I actually have two more of his on my 999 list: Shakespeare: World as Stage and A Short History of Nearly everything - I can hardly wait for 2009!
... voor gevorderden. I was very disappointed when I read that book.
This story was nice, it contains more formulas than A short history of nearly everything , which is a recommendation (I really like formulas). Some people do not like the end, I think it was perfect. I think the writer tries ...
#19 beebowallace - I adore A Short History of Nearly Everything . I like Bryson's travel books, but his other books are absolutely wonderful - Shakespeare: The World as Stage and The Mother Tongue come to mind.
I'm progressing nicely on Independent People by Halldor Laxness. This ...
Still working on A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Seriously a very good read. I picked up about 10 books yesterday at the local used book shop. My TBR shelf just never seems to get smaller.
I'm not sure what is next.
I finished The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton this morning and started A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
... You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
3. What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman
4. A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
5. Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Richard Branson
6. The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
7. Bi ...
... of English Spelling
423 English dictionaries Legends, Myths, and Folktales
500 Natural sciences & mathematics Short History of Nearly Everything
510 Mathematics Mathematics Made Easy
530 Physics Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
549 Mineralogy Rocks and Minerals: ...
... of British Folk-Tales in the English Language
GT Manners and customs (General) Food In History
Q Science (General) Short History of Nearly Everything
UC Maintenance and transportation The Ancient Greeks
UF Artillery My Tank is Fight!
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Truman - David McCullough
Under the Banner of Heaven Jon Krackauer
Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson
Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
And the Band Played On Randy Shilts
FDR's Last Year Jim Bishop
... much prefer The Lost Continent and Notes From a Small Island for his travel work. My all time favorite of his remains A Short History of Nearly Everything .
Cliff, this whole group makes me think of Hick's "people who hate people political party" bit.
I'll second Bill Bryson. I've read his A Short History of Nearly Everything three or four times. A Walk in the Woods is also quite good, and Mother Tongue is an obvious pick for people interested in the English language.
... and Young Adults ed. by Naomi J. Miller
8. As They See 'Em by Bruce Weber
9. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
CATEGORY COMPLETED 6/30/09
... Lesson by Katherine Weber
Master Class by Terrence McNally
The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
A Certain Chemistry by Mil Milington
This week's reads:
367. Dark Curse by Christine Feehan - BC book for this week
368. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - nonfiction; I generally enjoy Bryson's titles and this one was no exception
369. The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan - young adult; I ...
... to hold galaxies together and that there must be some other gravitational influence - what we now call dark matter.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Currently engrossed in A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
... but have not had a chance to tackle it yet. Currently, the nonfiction I am reading is A Summer of the Hummingbirds, A Short History of Nearly Everything , and Truth and Beauty.
another one for my wishlist, I saw there is a Dutch translation: Een kleine geschiedenis van bijna alles by Bill Bryson, thanks!
... - married to Prince Charles!!) he is a very down to earth writer, and his chapter on Laos is fantastic.
I did enjoy A short history of nearly everything , I managed to read it in two days whilst on holiday. The remarkable achievement for Bill Bryson is that he manages to hold your ...
Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything sounds interesting, so that's my pick from Sandydog1's library.
#78: Did you like A Short History of Nearly Everything ? I have it at home from the library and would be interested in your thoughts on it.
BTW - I very much enjoyed Garlic and Sapphires. Thanks for the recommendation.
52. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
53. A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
54. A study in scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
... for the group read on LT.
They came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie because my mum bought it and leant it to me.
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson because I'm interested in the topic and really like his way of writing.
De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eed ...
Still reading The poisonwood Bible and planning to pick up Saturday by Ian McEwan after the weekend.
Just finished A short history of nearly everything .
I'm planning to start with They came to Bagdad by Agatha Christie later today. First a chapter in A short history of nearly everything and of the Poisonwood Bible
I'm planning to start with They came to Bagdad by Agatha Christie later today. First a chapter in A short history of nearly everything and of the Poisonwood Bible
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt (A Midnight Louie Mystery) by Carole Nelson D ...
I have no idea who's written in the most categories, but I do know that A Short History of Nearly Everything taught me that Bill Bryson is ridiculously versatile. The amount of science he had to learn to write that book was pretty astonishing.
I have no idea who's written in the most categories, but I do know that A Short History of Nearly Everything taught me that Bill Bryson is ridiculously versatile. The amount of science he had to learn to write that book was pretty astonishing.
31. Wife in the North by Judith O'Reilly
32. Imagined London by Anna Quindlen
33. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Just finished for 500:
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. This book is basically a social history of the history of science and technology. Bryson describes the history behind the major scientific discoveries from the Enlightenment to the present. He focuses on how ...
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A Delicate Arrangement: The Strange Case of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace by Arnold Brackman
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Hiroshima by John Hershey
Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes us Human by Richard Leakey
Rhythms of V ...
I've recently become a Bill Bryson groupie. I started by listening to Short History of Nearly Everything , which should have been a snorer if anyone else had writen or narrated it...but I loved it so much that it's on my hard drive forever. I often put Short History back on my ipod just to listen ...
... This is much better!
Wicked by Maguire
Historical fiction: a guide to the genre by Sarah L. Johnson (LT author)
A Short History of Nearly Everything on audio by Bill Bryson
*The Plot against America by Roth on audio
Wrapt in Crystal by Sharon Shinn
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... already can tell I will like it. I haven't read any of Bryson before, but have only heard very good things. I have A Short History of Nearly Everything , that my husband has been reading and I will eventually get to it.
From A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson.
"The upshot of all is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances from us and each other we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with ...
I'm reading A short history of nearly everything . I already liked Bill Bryson after reading The life and times of the thunderbolt kid, I like him even more now.
Furthermore I'm reading a Ducth book: Arend, as I liked De engelenmaker. Also just started Het grote baggerboek, bought at ...
#98 - - I did finish A Short History of Nearly Everything and am glad I did. Right after I posted here saying I wasn't enjoying it, the book seemed to pick up speed. Not being a science buff, I learned a lot and found many sections interesting - - especially about cells, bacteria, and evolution. ...
96 - We both enjoyed A Short History of Nearly Everything
I'm about 150 pages into A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Not really enjoying it and considering giving up. Does it get any better or just more of the same? Has anyone out there read it and did you enjoy it?
The People's act of love by James Meek
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
A short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The History of the World in 10 1/2 chapters by Julian Barnes
The World According to Garp by John Irving
... Recently we've read The Omnivore's Dilema, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, The Book Thief, The Sound and the Fury, A Short History of Nearly Everything and next month is The Zero. We meet monthly at an independent bookstore, which sponsors the group. It's a great setup because we ...
I found Natalie Angier's The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science much like Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything , without some of the problems Bryson's book has.
500- Natural Sciences and Mathematics
I'm currently reading Bill Bryson- A Short History of Nearly Everything . It's funny and very readable.
I've read most of his, although I decided not to read A Short History of Nearly Everything - that's one I may try as an audio "read"! He is one writer who I laugh out loud at, and also admire his turn of phrase and his observations.
I've got his British TV series "Notes from a Small Island" on ...
... I found much more compelling when read aloud. Suite Francaise is another audio that I could listen to again and again. A Short History of Nearly Everything is one that I peruse over and over again because the material is so fascinating, and I enjoy hearing the author Bill Bryson read ...
Finally finished A Short History Of Nearly Everything , which is probably the best science book I've ever read, although now I'm convinced that a meteor is going to hit Earth like... now.
Reading Sourcery, even though I told myself I'd wait for my next Pratchett fix.
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508- American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World by Susan Scott Parrish
... being too technical or stuffy. So good infact I bought standard editions of Dawkins' Unweaving The Rainbow & Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything . Even though I'm not scientific by nature I am very interested in it & am determined to read as much as poss. =)
Oh A short history of nearly everything is great ellevee.
Mem it might be more to your taste if Hawking is getting you down or The Dancing Wu Li Masters which is a highly readable book about physics.
Bib what did you think of Dracula?
As for classics well I was an English major so I ...
Finished Mort last night, which I loved as much as I expected, and am now reading A Short History Of Nearly Everything , and feel like I'm getting very smart.
Dude, seriously, the universe is HUGE.
... at my brother's baseball game, and since my copy of Sourcery had been moved by a well-intentioned parent, I'm now reading A Short History Of Nearly Everything .
Science is AWESOME.
After I finish Mort,
* Sourcery
* The Thirteenth Tale
* A Short History Of Nearly Everything
* Swann's Way
So many more....
#137 Wodehouse rules!
The Thirteenth Tale
A Short History Of Nearly Everything
A Short History Of Nearly Everything because I'm trying to read more nonfiction.
The Thirteenth Tale so people will stop telling me to buy it and read it.
>60 I wouldn't trust Bryson on the facts, though. I haven't read A Brief History of Nearly Everything , but The Mother Tongue was full of errors. It seemed like he was more concerned with telling a good story than with actually taking the time to find out the truth.
... The Marvelous History of our alphabet from A to Z, and Bill Bryson has tackeled both science and language artfully in Brief History of Nearly everything and Mother Tongue.
More along the lines of what Gladwell does, you might want to try Made to Stick, which is all about how marketing ...
Far too many:
I picked up Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything to round an Amazon order up to $25 to get the free shipping.
Used from Amazon I also got:
Five Mile House by Karen Novak
Innocence by Karen Novak
Coal Run by Tawni O'Dell
Book Lust and ...
... always wonder about - if self-help books were effective, why would you ever need to buy more than one of them?
Book 15: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I liked this so much, I am now contemplating going back to university to do yet another degree - this one in science!
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... from a Small Island and several others. I read it rather than listened. He is quite the curmudgeon. I did listen to A short history of nearly everything and it actually worked well as audio.
... A history
The annotated Alice
Something by Dave Barry-the man is hillarious and I think I'd need my spirits lifted
A short history of nearly everything -funny, dense, and informative
The Red Tent-a good one to reread alot
The Neverending Story
The 21 Lessons of Merlin
Handmaid' ...
A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
... and I like having both options available. But that's just my personal take on it.
Vivien ~ Thanks for the tip. A Short History of Nearly Everything on audio is going right on my wish list.
mejix ~ Ditto to you. The brief wondrous life of oscar wao and the Plot against Americ ...
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson surely wouldn't be considered light reading, and listening to it is a mind blower, but when I got to the end, I just started all over again. It's so packed with information and told in such a wonderful airy manner, that I figure whatever I ...
Our church book group read A Short History of Nearly Everything .
I noticed early on that he said a proton, I think, was infinitely small. That is not true, and I mentioned it. One of the wiser folks in the group asked me whether the whole book was spoiled by that error. I replied that it ...
I will will WILL get A Short History of Nearly Everything read.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
3. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
4. Oliver Twist by Dickens
5. Etham Frome by Wharton
... are the books currently on my TO BE READ shelf (in no particular order):
1. PS, I love you by Cecelia Ahern
2. A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
3. Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (have read when younger, ...
... World by Edward Hasbrouck
19: The Book of Ballads by Charles Vess
20: Seeing Me Naked by Liza Palmer
21: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Total this month: 8
Total so far: 21.5
... Of the genre I describe as "high-quality chick-lit". Made me feel warm and fuzzy. All that jazz. Highly recommended.
21: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
reread
A very nice introduction to a staggeringly wide variety of the natural sciences. The one caveat was ...
... The Discoverers. New York: Vintage Books, 1985. 684 pp.
This work reminded me a lot of Bill Bryson’s recent work A Short History of Nearly Everything . While Boorstin does not quite achieve Bryson’s level of finesse, wit, and trivia, his history of the great scientific, geographic, ...
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I have a few more pages of KeeperS of the Flame then I am going to start Bill Bryson A short History of Nearly Everything .
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500 Natural sciences & mathematics -- A Short History of Nearly Everything , Bill Bryson
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Selected while heady streams of book-buying-mojo clouded brain:
How to be a Villain by Neil Zawacki
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The Boy Who Went Away by Eli Gottlieb
Little, Big by John Crowley
The Seven Lady ...
A Short History of Everything in which (touchstone is wrong!) Ken Wilbur does explain everything.
Not for the faint of heart.
... Austen: A life - Claire Tomalin 13/03
2. Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination - Peter Ackroyd
3. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
4. Beatrix Potter: a journal - Beatrix Potter 13/03
5. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Di ...
My first book of the year! I've just finished Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything .
At this rate, I'll never make 50!
My review:
'Funnily enough, my favourite Bryson. Not as outrageously funny as his travel work, but a broad, anecdotal sweep through astronomy (the big world) ...
... origins of the modern world, by David Keys (ties our current cultural arrangement to a volcanic event in 536 AD)
A Short History of Nearly Everything , by Bill Bryson
And a few from my to-read list:
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, creativity and the renewal of civilization, ...
... the answers are available in lots of books, it helps if you look for yourself.
A very basic beginning can be found in a short history of everything and many others. Science of the discworld is another attempt.
... - a reading list that can help her fill in the rather large gaps in her science education?
I'd put the ever-classic A Short History of Nearly Everything and Cosmos on that list. I wouldn't give her anything from Dawkins or Sam Harris, at least not yet. Science education takes ...
A short History of Everything is read and reviewed
readable, and probably useful if you're not previously familiar with the topics but hardly enlightening.
I think I'm supposed to be selecting for fyrefly - how about The Paradise War (Song of Albion, ...
... Good, but very bizarre book.
reading_fox - how about a review of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson? My dad keeps recommending it to me, but I'd like a second opinion. (If you've got some subset you'd rather I chose ...
... Count of Monte Cristo
PR The Museum at Purgatory
PS The Red Tent
PT The Metamorphosis
PZ The Golden Compass
Q A Short History of Nearly Everything
QD Napoleon's Buttons
QH Get a Grip on Genetics
QK Introduction to Plant Biology
QL Beachcomber's Guide to Gulf Coast marine ...
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
... the notion lay dormant for another thirty years until ressurected in England by Nevil Maskelyne, the astronomer royal.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
... the years. My own development has been greatly influenced by his writings.
I've read:
Atman Project
No Boundary
A Brief History of Everything
Marriage of Sense and Soul
Integral Psychology
A Theory of Everything
Grace and Grit
One Taste
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
B ...
... finished his Notes from a Small Island on his years spent living and traveling in Britain. It is hilarious. I also loved A short history of everything he is a great science writer as well. I'll have to pick up A Walk in the Woods
I saw the version of Persuasion with Amanda Root and Ciria ...
I am reading A Short History of Everything by Bill Bryson. It is very interesting, but long. I can't seem to make any headway. I do really recommend his A Walk in the Woods. It is one of the funniest books I have ever read.
EM, Are you reading Persuasion for the first time? I don't ...
I thought A Short History of Tractors in the Ukrainian was so funny...laughed out loud even...starting this week Letter From Point Clear by Dennis McFarland
... Marenbon, Early Medieval Philosophy
Pierre Riche, Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne
Marc Bloch, Feudal Society
Johnathan Riley-Smith, A Short History of the Crusades
R. W. Southern, The Making of the Middle Ages
Frank Barlow, Thomas Becket
David Knowles, The Evolution of Medi ...
... my ESL classroom
and my grade seven history textbook Proud Ages from 1966/67! - that made my morning.
Also borrowed A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson from my bf.
... - Charles Bowden
The Politics Of Rich And Poor - Kevin Phillips
Ecology Of A Cracker Childhood - Janisse Ray
A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Thank you! I'll check the library webiste for it now.
One book that made me feel the same was A Short History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier. I read it more than a year ago and still find myself thinking about it.
10th book: A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian , Marina Lewycka
... catch in your throat you get when you find a valuable but dirt-cheap book. (I got this illustrated, hardbound edition of A Short History of Nearly Everything for only P400 in Booksale!) 2ndhand bookstores that have delivered in this area are: the cheap books section in the National Bookstore S ...
... a large hardback copy at 496 pages and I figure it'd be more in a regular-sized paperback.
CHUNKS WAITING TO BE READ:
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson (687 pages)
Shadows and Strongholds - Elizabeth Chadwick (568 pages)
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre ...
I got a couple of books for free today:
A Short history of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Airframe by Michael Crichton
#4 I have avoided Bill Bryson's A short history of nearly everything for the rather lame reason that he is a layman straying into a topic outside of his usual territory.
Am I wrong to do this? Is this a good book that I should add to my collection of books on physics and the cosmos?
There's a huge range of popular general science /history /philosophy books.
Bill Bryson's A Short history of nearly everything and the Science of Discworld I trilogy cover most basics
For Astonomy and universe theory Stephen Hawking's Universe in a nutshell is much more ...
... name with Discworld* emblazoned on the front, they are actually popular science books more in line with Bill Bryson's Short History of nearly everything , and as such nead to be read as non-fiction rather than as a novel.
#5 - No curiosity at all about how the world around you works? Neve ...
... about Bill Bryson who is one of my favorite authors. I will read just about anything he writes, and his recent book A short history of nearly everything was a wonderful, easy to read book about science.
I gave three books a 5-star rating in February. To narrow it down to just one, I think I would choose A Short History of Nearly Everything .
... Durrell books which are older but they're quite funny and span both fiction and non.
Oh, and Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything . It spans almost all of science and history and I love his writing. Plus, he's hilarious. He actually puts a lot of fact into his ...
... by practical examples that could only happen if it was to be true.
Some fo the thinking behind this is in bryson's history of everything and the previously mentioned science of discworld books, but there are many other authors attempting to explain how it might make sense. New Scientis ...
I'm currently reading A Short History of Nearly Everything , by Bill Bryson, and What's the Difference by Mark Tyler Nobleman. I'm also reading Biomedical Informatics, but that's for school and I'll be reading it for the next 4 montsh, so I don't count it.
I'm listening to In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson. I loved his A Short History of Nearly Everything , so I thought I'd give his audiobook on Australia a shot.
... is why I love Booksale : I was looking around (not hoping for much) - then I see Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson - the hardbound Illustrated Edition! For P450! Sure, the dust cover was rumpled in places, but it was what book ...
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Fablehaven
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, vols. 1 and 2
The Masks of God (Primitive Mythology)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Endymion Spring
Pay the Piper
The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature, slipcased edition
Break, Blow, Burn
Heavy Wor ...
... a negetive face on it all. I think the only really good book in the realm of layman's science has been Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything .
That isn't the case. You share three books with me, none of which you have in the same edition - your History of Nearly Everything is a US paperback, for instance, but mine's a UK hardback. I can't see anything wrong with your catalogue sharing statistics at all. (PS it's ISBN for books, ISDN for ...
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