Comments on: Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman – a review

By: Aicha

Aicha — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:43:24 +0000

I don’t have a copy of this though I dearly wish I did.

I did read snippets of this in a local bookstore and was so thrilled, excited, so at peace and left wondering. Could this be real? Is time really a circle and a mirror at the same time? Are all choices at all points of time really carried out in different world?

It is an extravagant but quite wonderous thing, the idea presented in this book.

I am just sorry that the book is priced expensively for a small copy but I am saving up for it and I can’t wait until I can buy.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:29:57 +0000

Wish I’d read this piece sooner, or perhaps I did. Have checked house, but can’t find a copy of the book, unless I’ve already lent it to someone. Then again I can’t remember reading it, but I suppose I might have years ago. I’ll just have to move it to the top of the list and read it again or for the first time?

Have an enjoyable Xmas John.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:21:54 +0000

Thank you for the review. I read this book a few weeks ago and I was going to bring it home for Christmas. But you seem to have all angles covered. The part I liked most about the book was the theory about life being like a river. That sometimes it goes fast and sometimes slow. At the edge of the stream there will sometimes be eddies where the water doubles back on itself and joins the flow of life somewhere in the past.

jb says: It’s beautifully written. I’ve lived with the suspicion that time is circular for many years. The book made me remember how very limited we are in our interpretations of the world and the poverty as well as the blessing of our imaginations.