{"id":847,"date":"2010-12-15T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T02:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=847"},"modified":"2015-05-31T20:24:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T02:24:19","slug":"a-briefer-history-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"A Briefer History of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Steven Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow, unabridged, read by Erik Davies, 2005, Random House Audio<\/p>\n

I have a remodeling project going on and that is why I have so many audio books listed versus hard print (in addition to the fact that I am currently wading through a 937 page novel in print).\u00c2\u00a0 I thought I would give this one a try since I started out as a physics major in college (for one semester anyway).\u00c2\u00a0 The subject matter was pretty interesting and I had just a bit of knowledge to build upon.\u00c2\u00a0 However, listening to this book rather than reading it is, in my opinion, a mistake.\u00c2\u00a0 This is not due to a lack of talent on the part of the reader, but is rather because of the lack of time that I had to think about the material.\u00c2\u00a0 When listening to the examples that were provided, I quickly lost the sequence of thought because I didn’t have a chance to go back over them in my mind.\u00c2\u00a0 The information was so complex and presented in such rapid-fire succession, that there was no opportunity to pause and reflect (I certainly couldn’t hit the pause button because my fingers were full of faux paint).<\/p>\n

I also think that the authors tried a bit too hard to make the explanations as brief as possible to fit in with the title of the book.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe a bit more explanation or even repetition of some of the complex trains of thought would have helped.\u00c2\u00a0 The book does provide the reader (listener, in my case) with some thought-provoking ideas regarding the origins of the universe, predestination, and whether we will ever know how we and our world came to be.<\/p>\n

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