Sara Maitland

I wanted to love this book, but... nope. The subject is right up my alley for sure, but the writing is dry and humorless. The author several times reveals her shallow knowledge of topics (confusing dark matter with antimatter, for example). I'm sorry, but if you are going to write about astronomy -- or whatever -- you ought at least to read up to the point where you don't make basic errors like this. Such fundamental errors in areas I happen to be versed in don't bode well for what she says about the areas I'm not familiar with.

The dry humorlessness made the listening tedious, so I sped it up to get through it faster. Two days and, while I appreciate much of what she had to say about silence, modernity, and related topics, I can't say I'd recommend this to anyone. I'm waffling between a two and three, but GR says three means 'liked,' and for me, it was a bit less than good. In GR star parlance, 'It was ok.'

The topic deserved a better, more conscientious treatment.… (plus d'informations)