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It was discussed as a bestseller, but with a humorous note about whether people actually read it due to its complex content. It was also compared to the 'pocket fisherman', suggesting it was a gift rather than a book meant for everyone to read and understand.
Remember when Stephen Hawking's A Short History of Time was a bestseller? And there was a kind of an open joke about whether anyone who was buying it was reading it because like, that is not a, you kn...
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It was discussed as a bestseller, but with a humorous note about whether people actually read it due to its complex content. It was also compared to the 'pocket fisherman', suggesting it was a gift rather than a book meant for everyone to read and understand.
Remember when Stephen Hawking's A Short History of Time was a bestseller? And there was a kind of an open joke about whether anyone who was buying it was reading it because like, that is not a, you know, the idea that, you know, some, a standard normally educated human being could read that book and make sense of it is a little bit of a stretch.
I feel like the Stephen Hawking book was for giving, not for reading.