If you're looking to tap into your inner science geek, this is the book for you. It's actually a short history of nearly everything "scientific." Bryson has done an amazing job putting the most complex scientific topics in layman's terms. In fact, if you're someone who never really got what science is all about, then this is a good book for you as well. I found it incredibly mentally stimulating and entertaining at the same time.
Bryson adds personality to well-known and unknown scientists of all disciplines by including anecdotes and personality quirks. My only bone of contention would be that each chapter seems to cover a topic (i.e., geology, astro-physics) almost entirely independent of the others. To his credit Bryson did create some linkages between the topics, but more than once I would be reading something I was positive contradicted something else I'd read earlier (i.e., how long ago earth was created). Then again, for all the information we know/have in science, there's nearly just as much we don't so maybe the contradictions are the reality rather than an oversight by the author.
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