A bit dry, not perhaps as focused as it might have been.

It took me a while to get into this. I was looking for a biography of Schrodinger, and a lot of the first half of the book was context, more about people before and around him. I understand it's necessary to set the scientific scene, but I found it frustrating. I thought I was getting a bio, but it didn't read that way...

The second half improved somewhat - I got a better sense of the man as a person, even if the science was beyond me (it seems to require prior introductory reading, to be honest; I can't imagine lay readers making anything of this). I rather get the feeling that Gribbin's audience is historically-minded physicists rather than the average person.

For me at least, I know nothing about quantum physics so some of what he was talking about was absolutely incomprehensible (it gave me that fed-up, irritated feeling I get when wading through philosophy. "What is quantum physics? No, what is it really? How do we know we know?" *shudders*).

In sum, I finished this book none the wiser (and considerably less interested) in quantum physics. But Schrodinger himself seems interesting, so I'll probably go looking for a more accessible bio that talks more about him and less about everyone around him.