My Brief History was a brief memoir by Hawking. It was written not as a long detailed autobiography but a brief history of his life which included pictures which I liked. It includes a little bit about his parents, childhood, education-preparatory school and college, his marriage, children and his career which detailed his areas of interest in astrophysics. He also detailed a bit about working around his disability. In this book, I found he had a sense of humor and would make bets with peers a

Thanks to Netgalley.com and Random House Publishing Group for a review copy in exchange for an honest review.Cross-posted on my blog, The Periodic Table of Elephants.I have never read any Hawking before *gasp*, so what a place to start, on his autobiography. Titled 'My Brief History' is really is brief and to the point.The style of this autobiography is terse, to the point, and mainly about his academic achievements. His children and wives get a brief mention, which is reassuring, with the only

I feel like a terrible person giving this book two stars... I'm sure Mr. Hawking has far more important things to do, think about, and write about than himself... and it shows in the book. One wonders why he bothered or why he didn't hire a biographer to write a more concise story instead of making it a slim-volume autobiography. I'm sure, given the speed at which he works, this was still an impressive achievement, but as far as an informative biography of a fascinating person, it fails to achie...

Very very good. Stephen Hawking's mind an way of writing a book is just genial. And after all he's been through, he still published this. All my respect

This is a very straightforward, short recount of Stephen Hawking's life told by himself. It is beyond inspiring and it left me in complete awe for this man but it was not full of sentimental heartfelt chapters describing his endless struggles in life and his battle against his disability. On the contrary, this was mostly facts, facts, facts with the occasional pondering here and there. It was not at all difficult to read and only had scientific-talk when he described his accomplishments and the

I'm giving this a neutral 3-star rating. From the description of the book, I thought this would be a biographical telling of Stephen Hawking. Perhaps I misunderstood, but his biography probably makes up less than 50% of the entire book, which is quite brief.It starts out well enough, beginning with his Great-Grandfather, and working up to his own birth during WWII. Then the accelerator is floored, as he zooms through childhood and into his college and post-doc years. From there, it's physics, ph...

For me it was a nice read. But I would have liked more personal topics, less explanations of physical theories because Mr. Hawking seems to be an interesting and extraordinary human beeing even without his achievements in science, but this book did not deliver this.

In his beautiful autobiography, Stephen Hawking focuses on his academic life details. He didn't mention his family more than when it is necessary like when talking about his childhood or his problems with his motor illness that affected his work.This book tells the very brief story of Stephen Hawking: his childhood, his youth, the heyday of his career, and the most interesting of all, his process whilst writing his famed A Brief of History. Also, he mentioned his collaboration with Kip Thorne -

Nothing wrong with this, but it didn't offer up a whole lot I didn't already know, so it felt a little meh for me.

It is not what one expects from a biography. Very little information about the man's personal life, his beliefs , his friends , his enemies, his relationships with children, relatives, students, the world! And too much science! But he already wrote about it in other books! So better watch the movie!

This makes sense to me. Not the physics, that will never make sense to me. The physics are leagues beyond my comprehension. But, the heavy leaning on physics instead of personal detail does fit perfectly for what I know of Mr. Hawking. Which is not much more than what I knew before going into this book. Ask a man who dedicated his life to finding the secrets of the universe and the meaning behind our existence to write a story of his life, what do you really expect to get? I was happy for the sm...

Stephen Hawking: the man and the human being. It is extremely difficult to see Stephen Hawking as a person with love, fear and loneliness as things he possibly suffers through. In his autobiography we learn about Stephen’s life leading up to his grand successes and beyond. As a child he loved trains, was curious how machines worked, and was not skilled with his hands when rebuilding the machines he dissected. Professor Hawking is revered for his “genius” in the theoretical physics realm and he

With the passing of the great cosmologist last week, it seemed fitting to read his autobiography as a way of appreciating the man a bit more. It’s a very compact account of Hawking’s life, hitting the high spots without going into great detail. One of the more charming aspects for me was the inclusion of a fair number of personal photographs, many supplied by Hawking himself and his sister.Numerous tributes to Hawking last week referred to his sense of humour. Unfortunately, that didn’t really c...

I really enjoyed this. You can tell he is a scientist as he gets down to the facts and doesn’t waste any words but somehow I found, for biographies, that kind of works really well. It’s also far from a dry read as Hawking’s humour appears throughout the book. Very interesting.

Stephen Hawking, one of the most famous physicists and researchers in cosmology in the world, tells the story of his life in this book. Did you know that he is self learned when it comes to maths? Or that he wasn't happy when his little sister was born? This book includes information that shows the man behind the success.What made him interested in science and so successful? As a young boy, he was fascinated by systems and wanted to control them. He used to take apart items to see how they worke...

This book was short and sweet! :)

I have always been intrigued and fascinated by Stephen Hawking but knew very little about him, his work and his life. After seeing the movie, "The Theory of Everything" based on the book by his first wife Jane, I became even more interested and wanted to learn more. My Brief History is truly that. A very short, quick insight into the man and the scientist; touching briefly on his personal life and two marriages. It is a very small window we are given to look into this great man's life. There is

"The Theory of Everything" was a romantic drama film. I would summarize it as "the love they felt at that moment was true and opted to part away before things soured too much and scarred whatever was left good!" Or, in other words, both of them felt they would be better off with somebody else.Hawking wrote this memoir with "as-a-matter-of-fact" tone. So, it might read a little bit dry. And it's also very brief. I wanted to brush away this "factual" tone thinking Stephen isn't quite a writer. But...

very light and educational. he changed people’s lives without even knowing.RIP

This is an autobiography of the famous physicist Stephen Hawking. He is one person who has probably inspired me the most in my life. His book “A brief history of time” made me fall in love with physics more than a decade back. So happy that I read this book finally about him and his research.He talks about his childhood, his parents and siblings in the first few chapters. One interesting fact is that I could relate to his father a lot. His father sounded so much like my own father sometimes. The...