Quote Originally Posted by Andre View Post
Two things Abrief history of time Stephen Hawking and A novel called The Slap, by Christos tsiolakas set around these parts in Melbourne about a family of greek Aussies who get together for a bbq and one of the men slaps a spoiled kid (who still breast feeds) of 5 years down after a light knee to the cods.The family fall apart sort of, court case etc well written and fucking funny in parts.
A brief history of time was great but towards the middle Hawking kind of forgot that the idea of the book was that it was supposed to be quite accessible and you didn't need to be a rocket scientist to understand it.

I gave my copy to a mate for him to read and he moved to the other side of the country the bastard, never got it back off him.