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Summary: Achingly Beautiful.
Review: Many people misunderstand this jewel. It isn't a novel in the traditional sense, but that doesn't detract from its beauty. It isn't actually based on anything Einstein said or wrote, but that doesn't diminish it's stature. What it is is simply some of the most beautiful and evocative prose ever put to paper. I first read this book on the recommendation of a friend, straight through with tears always in my eyes. Not because it's sad, although it is in some passages, but because it is achingly beautiful. I have since re-read the book many times, and my love of it only grows.
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Summary: I know a guy...
Review: My dog layeth the mack down to the authors daughter
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Summary: An unforgettable journey through reality and beyond
Review: Just what is Time? What is reality? Through the dreams of Lightman's recreation of Einstein, we are shown scores of philosophical possibilities, that are not quite reality, but not quite fantasy either. Every chapter portrays a new world, a new reality, a new definition of time and space as dreamed up by the young pattent clerk on the verge of the major discovery of the Theory of Relativity. Each journey into Einstein's imagination show the reader just how similar these fantasies can be to what we perceive as reality. It is impossible to read this book without imagining yourself as a character in each of these different realities, feeling as they feel, thinking as they think. Einstein's Dreams is a very quick read, but it leaves a lasting impression in your very soul. It goes to prove that big things still come in small packages.
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Summary: Incredibly Intelligent
Review: I can't believe that I liked a book that is made up of a measly 30 little thoughts, but I did. Alan Lightman re-creates the dreams that inspired Einstein's theory of relativity. Each little section touches on one of his special theories, and each one of them with their own odd psychology. An easy read, that discuss things in a light hearted way. This book pushes the mind to think beyond the boundaries....A must read!
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Summary: Beautifully chaotic
Review: Einstein's dreams delves into a purely imaginative perspective on the relativity of time. Each dream of a theory of time leaves us with a way to better appreciate our time on Earth. Many of the dreams are irrational or sometimes have more to do with dimentions and universes rather than time, yet it is a work to be celebrated for its stream of conciousness approach to a factual and mathematical scientific theory. In all the equations and calculations, how many of us forget to let our imaginations run wild? As Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge...knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world."
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Summary: Time is not absolute. It is elastic. Students reflect.
Review: I have used this eloquent and profound, yet simple and accessible, text for the last four years with my advanced photography students (11th & 12th grades). It helps them to pause and reflect on their young and quickly changing lives. It helps them to consider one of the key elements crucial to making photgraphs (and by extension, film & video) --- time itself. This book helps to facilitate the thinking and making of images which interpret the structure,creative expression, and metaphorical value of time as it passes. This little gem of a book is good food for the visual arts classroom.
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Summary: A book which makes you re-think what you had thought
Review: This book is excellent, pushes the mind to think about life and evaluate your own life. This book reviews different people and their reactions to time, mirroring ourselves and our actions. Not in complicated text, even Einstein's brilliance failed him in his work on the theory of relativity, but even then there is enough work to influence those who analize his work. Very influencial, a book that makes you put it down and analize that last chapter before going on, because there is so much to realize that it must be taken in. Are we any of these people, do we live in any of these lives? A magnificent book that everyone should read...
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Summary: It makes you think. What more can you ask?
Review: This book is wonderful. I recommed reading Flatland first, so you start thinking about how to conceive of other dimensions. Then read this book, and see how you can conceive of time as a dimension. So thought prokovking, so entertaining, you must read this if you like physics. It's all conceptual, so fear not math phobic people. Any book that makes you really think is worth the read.
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Summary: DO NOT PASS THIS ONE UP!!!
Review: Einstein's Dreams is awesome! It is great. Every part is very creative and incredible. This is a great read..DON'T MISS IT!!!
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Summary: Very good, but not great
Review: Lightman's book is an enjoyable read, but not the most inspired or enlightening. It makes for an enjoyable bed-time story, but seems to lack a certain edge (partially due to the author's style of writing, and partially to content). Often you know exactly where the story will lead from the beginning, and the path there is not that exciting in and of itself. A great concept, unfortunately not done justice.
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