Helpful Score: 4
This book is written by a CalTech graduate and MIT physics professor. It is basically a collection of short stories, except none of the stories actually has a plot. Each story is a fictional dream that a young Einstein had about time. Each dream is set in a different universe in which some aspect of time is slightly different from how we understand it to be and each story is a glimpse into that universe. Most of the stories are actually very interesting in a thought-provoking kind of way.
Helpful Score: 3
Great book and a perfect beach read, it may be short read but its filled with some deep beautifully captured words.
Helpful Score: 2
Thoughtful, but too slow for me. Gently written. Had an "art for art's sake" feel for me.
Helpful Score: 2
Moving and humorous and fascinating. Who thinks about Albert Einstein as being anything but an iconic human being? Reading about Einstein, as a man was fascinating and delightful.
Helpful Score: 2
LOVED it! It makes you think of the concept of time in wonderful ways.