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I was going to give this book four stars because Bryson isn't the most dynamic prose-ologist in the world. BUT for the sheer number of times I said "Wow!" "Neat!" or "Honey, listen to this!" I'm giving this book five stars. The fact of the matter is I love this book, it filled me with wonder, gave me perspective and even made me appreciate human beings a little more, because each and every one of us is this miracle of science, intention and luck and we're all made of the stuff of stars.

I mean, did you know that if Earth was the size of a pea (think about your ordinary, everyday, garden variety pea), that Jupiter would be something like a thousand feet away. Longer than three football fields. The solar system is incredibly huge. And that's just our solar system.

That's freaking PERSPECTIVE.

There's a lot of stuff like that in this book. Open to any page and your jaw will drop.

Yeah, I loved it. The Universe, from the cosmically huge to the sub-atomically small is incredibly wonderful.

Live it up.