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Although an entertaining book with an interesting concept, I felt it was lacking. The lack of character development and the rushed pacing dropped the book's quality.
This certainly has to be one of the weirdest books I've read. It was funny, easy to read and a quick story to get through. However, I wasn't really that gripped with the plot. I don't know if I'll read the other books in the series.
Caitlin Doughty, AKA Ask a Mortician, is back with her 2nd book. This time she looks at death and funeral rituals across the world. As with her first book, she writes with sensitivity and her usual humour. Doughty has a talent of writing about death in a way that makes it a lot less scary. The illustrations by Landis Blair are stunning and really make the book more engaging.
My only suggestion for an improvement would have been to include a map, marking the places mentioned in this book.
Recommended for the morbidly curious and those who want to face their fear of death. A firm 5 stars.
My only suggestion for an improvement would have been to include a map, marking the places mentioned in this book.
Recommended for the morbidly curious and those who want to face their fear of death. A firm 5 stars.
I think we are acting with reckless indifference to our future on planet Earth. At the moment, we have nowhere to go, but in the long run the human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. I just hope we can avoid dropping the basket before we learn how to escape from Earth.
Brief Answers to the Big Questions, is filled with powerful messages as the one quoted above. It's an account of Hawking's thoughts on a number of topics written during the final year of his life. Although each answer to the big questions are deeply rooted in his scientific and philosophical beliefs, he wrote this book in a way that makes it very accessible to the general reader. He raises important points of how science plays a critical role in our future.
Hawking does have the tendency to repeat a lot of the explanations and points throughout this book; making it really repetitive. However, this may be due to the fact that he was still working on this collection around the time of his death.
I would really recommend this book. Although some of his predictions look bleak if we don't act now, Hawking did leave us with some positive and uplifting messages:
So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future.
Brief Answers to the Big Questions, is filled with powerful messages as the one quoted above. It's an account of Hawking's thoughts on a number of topics written during the final year of his life. Although each answer to the big questions are deeply rooted in his scientific and philosophical beliefs, he wrote this book in a way that makes it very accessible to the general reader. He raises important points of how science plays a critical role in our future.
Hawking does have the tendency to repeat a lot of the explanations and points throughout this book; making it really repetitive. However, this may be due to the fact that he was still working on this collection around the time of his death.
I would really recommend this book. Although some of his predictions look bleak if we don't act now, Hawking did leave us with some positive and uplifting messages:
So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future.
This has redeemed the series after the mediocrity of The Ill-Made Knight.
