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Summary: Great Book!!
Review: This book changed the way that I look at my life. I wish that I could thank Lightman personally for his creation.
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Summary: A poignant and thought-provoking look at the nature of time.
Review: With equal parts of sympathy and irony, Lightman relates a series of dreams in which time behaves very differently than we normally perceive it to. Much like Borges' brilliant short stories, the author's real subject is human nature. While each story creates a fascinating hypothetical world in which, for instance, time is a flock of birds, the power of this book is in the subtle, yet persuasive way it asks us to reexamine the more familar world of the present.
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Summary: A GREAT BOOK!
Review: This is a wonderful book for anyone appreciating the philosophical aspects of time and scince.
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Summary: Time and life, complex and intertwined.
Review: Not so much a book about time as how we perceive time and how much attention we give, and should give, to the past, present, and future in our lifespans. This book is useful in helping us develop a healthy balance between remembering and learning from the past and dwelling on the past excessively; between having the spontaneity to enjoy the moment and indulging ourselves excessively in pleasures of the moment at the expense of future happiness; between planning for a fulfilling future and forgetting about the only time that really matters at any moment: now.
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Summary: A truly special book.
Review: I received this book as a gift and have treasured it. I liked it so much I am giving them out to each of my clients as gifts for the holidays. I rarely come across a book that mixes science and poetry any better.You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: A Brain Cell Stimulator
Review: Mr. Lightman presents a series of thought-provoking vignettes which for me served to expand my perceptions of the concept of time. While I found the mix of clever with what to me seemed a stab at being too profound, overall this book is a definite worthwhile choice for anyone with an imagination.
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Summary: Beguiling
Review: Alan Lightman's fiction Einstein's Dreams is a clever and thought-provoking work. Although captioned a "novel", it takes the form more of successive ruminations on a common theme - the nature of time. At the time he is having his great theoretical insights, Einstein has a series of dreams, each of which presents a different model of time. The dreams (and Lightman's book) are not so much about how time works but how human nature responds to time. Thus, in one particularly amusing chapter, the second law of thermodynamics is reversed, and instead of entropy prevailing everything becomes more ordered through time. As a result, in the springtime many people go through their houses making messes and undoing the order that had developed over the preceding months. In other vignettes, time is non-linear or runs backwards; or persons lives last but a single day. In each instance, Lightman's interest is not time itself but how it shapes how we live. Although a scientist (he is on the MIT faculty) Lightman writes with the sensitivity and language of a poetry. This book is beguiling.
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Summary: This book forces you to think!!
Review: The book is really a collection of short stories about worlds with different senses of time. Each chapter describes a world defined by time. In one world, an entire lifetime is one day, in another world time moves at different rates based on elevations. I highly reccomend this book for people who enjoy thinking and need a break from stress.
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Summary: Masterpiece of both fiction and the sciences
Review: The way in which this marvelous book was written enables the reader to interpret its passages on many different levels. It is the kind of book you can read again and again and still find a new insight into life and its meaning. I will not say anything else other than - you must read it and see for yourself!
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Summary: Pulling... but the conclusion...
Review: This book is a good readind and way to explain science with simple but strong words, I would have like a Dialog between Einstein and "The Great One" but this never happen. I enjoyed more "Dance for Two" this one although fascinating, left me with a sense of "incomplete", non defining. Maybe like a dream, then It was probably what he intended... to leave the door open...
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