![]() ![]() While the book claims to be a history of everything, that's not quite accurate. That does not necessarily a good book make, and yet his earnestness shines through in his writing style - his fascination with what he's relating is transparent and contagious, sucking the reader into this dense aspect of our world. He obviously put a lot of work into this book and it shows. Bryson even donned his investigative journalist's hat and went out to interview scientists of interest. Important discoveries in biology, paleontology, physics, chemistry and geology are all covered. Everything, from the formation of the Earth through the latest advances in quantum mechanics are discussed. The title might sound a bit self-aggrandizing, but I have to admit that this book is remarkably thorough. ![]() He does a reasonably good job, but there are a few problems with his execution. ![]() It seems to me that travel writing is a hard literary field to break out of, so it was with great trepidation that I sat down to read A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson's attempt to render the science behind our little corner of the universe in plain language. I know he's done other stuff in the past, but I had always thought of Bill Bryson as a travel writer. ![]()
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