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A friend of mine bought the book "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene and he's raving about it. Of course, he's usually stark raving 😉 so I thought I'd get another opinion first. Anyone here read it? Any good?

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Originally posted by PBE6
A friend of mine bought the book "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene and he's raving about it. Of course, he's usually stark raving 😉 so I thought I'd get another opinion first. Anyone here read it? Any good?
You could just borrow the book from your friend or a library and form an opinion of your very own!

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Originally posted by PBE6
A friend of mine bought the book "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene and he's raving about it. Of course, he's usually stark raving 😉 so I thought I'd get another opinion first. Anyone here read it? Any good?
Its atomsphere is too elegant.

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Originally posted by Mimor
You could just borrow the book from your friend or a library and form an opinion of your very own!
My friend is a jerk and won't lend it to me. I also got my library card revoked after a jaywalking altercation with a local militia group.

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Originally posted by PBE6
A friend of mine bought the book "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene and he's raving about it. Of course, he's usually stark raving 😉 so I thought I'd get another opinion first. Anyone here read it? Any good?
Google it to get reviews. 🙂

EDIT: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/everything.html

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Originally posted by PBE6
A friend of mine bought the book "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene and he's raving about it. Of course, he's usually stark raving 😉 so I thought I'd get another opinion first. Anyone here read it? Any good?
Looks like you could get a pretty good taste of it here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html

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Originally posted by PBE6
My friend is a jerk and won't lend it to me. I also got my library card revoked after a jaywalking altercation with a local militia group.
😀 I think I'm on a "Wanted: Dead or Alive" poster at my library. I don't even drive past it anymore.

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I've read it. Really good if you're non-mathematically inclined... or is that mathematically declined? Recommended.

Edit: Sorry, I've read Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos not The Elegant Universe.

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Originally posted by Green Paladin
I've read it. Really good if you're non-mathematically inclined... or is that mathematically declined? Recommended.

Edit: Sorry, I've read Brian Greene's The Fabric of the Cosmos not The Elegant Universe.
Finally, a sensible post!

I am now the proud owner of a paperback edition of "The Elegant Universe". I can't wait to spend the next month reading short snippets on the subway and on the crapper, and tossing out half-baked physics trivia cobbled together from my faulty memories at my local watering hole.

To the rest of you knuckleheads who chimed in, thanks for nothing!

EDIT: rbmorris and Pawn Queen, yous guys is a'right. I'm speaking only to the knuckleheads.

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Originally posted by PBE6
EDIT: rbmorris and Pawn Queen, yous guys is a'right. I'm speaking only to the knuckleheads.
Are you calling Mimor a knucklehead? 😠

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Are you calling Mimor a knucklehead? 😠
Are you calling me a liar? 😠

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'Cosmos', Carl Sagan is also a good read.

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Originally posted by English Tal
'Cosmos', Carl Sagan is also a good read.
Are you calling me a metrosexual? 😠

Oh, 'cosmos'...gotcha. 😳

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Originally posted by PBE6
Are you calling me a liar? 😠
Yes. Metrosexual liar! 😠

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Yes. Metrosexual liar! 😠
Ha! You spelled "Seacrest" wrong. 😏