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This could have been an interesting read. This book has all kinds of fields in it, math, medicine, cosmology.. I really like that. It is a collection of articles about the subject of nothing. Yes, you can write a lot about nothing.
The order of the chapters is a bit confusing at first. I expected a chapter per field, but they explain at the beginning of the book that they have chosen to do it a different way. The first chapter is about beginnings, and it has something about the big bang and about brainresearch.
If you read a whole chapter in this book in one sitting, it is a bit chaos. But if you read it an article at the time, the order makes this book easier to read than if they had devoted a whole chapter to on field of research. In that case, I would sooner be tempted to skip something, because I've read enough about brain research already, for example. That is not the case now. So I do see the perks of this, but I'm not a fan of it because the feeling of chaos overrules the surprises you get because you've read something you wouldn't have read otherwise.
And than I have an issue with the writing. Most of the articles are interesting, but sometimes I lost what I was reading about. It is a bit all over the place. Sometimes I was even wondering what I've just read. It is in a particular way good because there is interesting stuff in it, but it didn't felt like an amazingly read I've learned a lot from, somehow. It doesn't endure.
It just feels badly written and thus it is hard to read. Maybe this is because of the translation, I dont know, so I do recommend if you want to read this, to read the original English version. I think that is better because it are articles fro New Scientist and that is usually very well written!
It's not that I notice that the translation is bad, but it feels like something is off with the writing. Very hard to pinpoint what it is that makes me feel like this is not a good book, while it has all the potential and subject to be one. I just had to drag myself through every single page of it..
The order of the chapters is a bit confusing at first. I expected a chapter per field, but they explain at the beginning of the book that they have chosen to do it a different way. The first chapter is about beginnings, and it has something about the big bang and about brainresearch.
If you read a whole chapter in this book in one sitting, it is a bit chaos. But if you read it an article at the time, the order makes this book easier to read than if they had devoted a whole chapter to on field of research. In that case, I would sooner be tempted to skip something, because I've read enough about brain research already, for example. That is not the case now. So I do see the perks of this, but I'm not a fan of it because the feeling of chaos overrules the surprises you get because you've read something you wouldn't have read otherwise.
And than I have an issue with the writing. Most of the articles are interesting, but sometimes I lost what I was reading about. It is a bit all over the place. Sometimes I was even wondering what I've just read. It is in a particular way good because there is interesting stuff in it, but it didn't felt like an amazingly read I've learned a lot from, somehow. It doesn't endure.
It just feels badly written and thus it is hard to read. Maybe this is because of the translation, I dont know, so I do recommend if you want to read this, to read the original English version. I think that is better because it are articles fro New Scientist and that is usually very well written!
It's not that I notice that the translation is bad, but it feels like something is off with the writing. Very hard to pinpoint what it is that makes me feel like this is not a good book, while it has all the potential and subject to be one. I just had to drag myself through every single page of it..