Have any of you laymen actually read

[sangria]

a Brief History of Time?

If so, how tough was it to get through?

[mrsbro]

I stare it at the Library but have never read it. For 212 page (I just looked) one would think it wouldn't be too bad?


Says the person who is too intimidated to read it. 

[jln]

It's very easy to get through. He writes in a manner that makes it easy to understand and explains the difficult topics well. I read it for the first time as a teenager when I was obsessed with Hawking and had no trouble comprehending it.

[downtoearth]

I was assigned it in a class once. I think I read about 4 pages of every chapter, but it wasn't bad, I was just not that into studying at the time.

[EllieArroway]

It is not that bad. I read it in high school for fun. (Nerd.)

[mominatrix]

I read it years ago, and it was fascinating and a good read.

[Deleted]

I read it, understood the first half, got a little confused on the third quarter, then gave up. I was much younger though, and I think I only tried to read it because I thought that was a cool thing to do lol.

[runaways]

I have. It took me a while to get through just because I stopped periodically to think about it. The basic gist of it is not too difficult to understand however.

[meltoine]

I read the first ten pages in college and then I stopped because I could not get through it. I'm an intelligent person, but physics is of absolutely no interest to me.