If it is not a tech manual or a "how to" or geek magazine, I am usually not interested in reading it. A friend gave me this book hoping to segway my intent from a purely task driven need to read up on something, to reading for entertainment purposes as I would with TV and movies. It worked for about 6 months. I got to get back into it again so I figured I would reread this book to get me started. This is pop science at its finest and is worth the read.