Nice binding and book jacket, quality paper, clear print, wide format, good price. This fascinating scientific text for the non-scientific reader has been updated and enhanced beyond Hawking's original.
Attempting to finish would have been a complete waste of time. Hawking had the advantage of knowing that his audience could range anywhere from teenagers all the way up to his contemporaries and knew that he would have to attempt to explain a lot of what he was saying and I'd say he did a four star job of that. For example, I started reading a sample of something that Einstein had written and I was almost immediately lost and buried in equations. But the illustration helped