by Rick Lowe
The holidays have provided an opportunity to read a couple books I've been promising myself to get to over the past couple months.
One of the most intriguing books is A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson and I've just started it. I'm on chapter two as a matter of fact.
According to this… review in the U.K's. Guardian newspaper:
"The amount of ground covered is truly impressive. From the furthest reaches of cosmology, we range through time and space until we are looking at the smallest particles. We explore our own planet and get to grips with the ideas, first of Newton and then of Einstein, that allow us to understand the laws that govern it. Then biology holds centre-stage, heralding the emergence of big-brained bipeds and Charles Darwin's singular notion as to how it all came about. Crucially, this hugely varied terrain is not presented as a series of discrete packages. Bryson made his name writing travelogues and that is what this is. A single, coherent journey, woven together by a master craftsman."
So far it's excellent. A complicated subject distilled so that even your not so humble blogger can understand it, and he has an excellent sense of humour to boot.
Visit his Random House web site here…
Buy it here…
