re: #52 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Stephen Hawking’s Brief (and Briefer) History in Time were books with the intention of simplifying science to a layman.
I still read it with the look of Shaquille O’Neal before he shoots a free throw. Dead eyed, mouth breathing, blank stare.
I haven’t read it yet (Brief or Briefer), it’s sitting here on my reading pile to get to in the future.
Currently reading “Cryptonomicon,” at 1100+ pages of smaller than usual print, it’s about as dense as three novels (in fact, it is three interconnecting stories).