“Whoa. I just finished this book, after months of once-or-twice-a-week reading. Maybe it was that I started it at the beach in the summer, but I found the first section to be pretty boring, and difficult to wade through. A lot of stuff about Newton and Mach and their 'spinning bucket' mental experiment, which I'm sure is really important to the whole subject but that didn't really catch my fancy. The book definitely picked up in the middle, but then by the last section I was ready to put it down.
Maybe my brain worked better a couple years ago (quantum degeneration since then? :-), but I really found Greene's "The Elegant Universe" to be a much easier and much more interesting read. I almost hadn't gotten this book because I'd read some reviews that Fabric was "dumbed down" from Elegant Universe, but I didn't find that to be the case at all. This book seemed chock-full of some really esoteric and down-in-the-dirt details, which might appeal to a physics major but not to the average technical-minded layman. I'd definitely recommend Elegant Universe over Fabric.”
Robert wrote this review Sunday, October 5 2008.
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