Title: Not really for the casual reader.
Product review: I'm probably the type of person who needs some pictures to go with the text, but I think I "got" about 90 percent of what Rees was saying. If you are not up on science and math, it can be some pretty slow slogging, though. There are too many asides in footnotes, which I consider "speed bumps" for readers. Why not just put what you want to say in the body of the text? One problem that I think Rees has is that he forgets who his target audience is. He'll take the time to explain some simple, and not too relevant, item (e.g.;definition of an isotope) and then launch into a very complex principle of cosmology at breakneck speed as if he were talking to a colleague. With all that, the ideas Rees presents of how the universe developed and the possibility of multiple universes is fascinating.
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