Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Great book that I stopped reading after a few chapter. It is very well written and very interesting. Maybe I will finish it some day.

Very well written on one of my favourite subjects.
Really liked the writing style and structure of the book.

A good introduction to astrophysics. I read before his other book - astrophysics for people in hurry, and they bare some resemblance regarding content. I feel though, this one is actually more focused on astrophysics while the other feels more as an introduction to science and science history :)

I so desperately wanted to like this book, but I just didn't. Whenever I find myself avoiding reading it means I'm not enjoying my current book, and it's time to accept that and move on.

The flaws here, if any, are attributable to it being drawn from a series of columns Tyson did for Natural History. That means there is some repetition, and the overall effect is kind of a hodge podge of cosmic information. Even so, I loved it. Tyson is a great writer.

This was a fun book–it's a really approachable take on some of the fun as well as some more serious topics in astronomy and astrophysics. It doesn't assume any prior knowledge of physics yet still manages to get into enough detail to stretch your knowledge a little.

There also is some interesting commentary on the way astrophysics is covered in the press and in politics as well as how to approach learning astrophysics. I enjoyed it.

A great introduction to the physics of space and black holes, this book collects the author's well-written, and often funny, essays on a variety of space and astronomy related subjects.