John Micallef's Reviews > Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

This was by some margin the worst science book i have ever read. My 2 main issues with the book are the myriad analogies and the reverence for string theory.

Given the high level topic of this book, i assumed the text would not be 'dumbed down' as if the audience was high school students with only a semester of physics. But my assumption was wrong. This book is written such that chapters are prefixed by an analogous fiction and each paragraph after is riddled with allusion and metaphor to a ridiculous degree. The author will often belabor a point through this exposition followed by a slew of metaphors regardless of how complicated the original point even was leading this book on a fairly interesting and niche topic to become incredibly and increasingly boring.

I am unsure why so many physicists in the early 2000's held string theory in such high regard. It was a cool idea that just straight up does not describe the space we live in, by definition. It's like someone talking about "The Force" from Star Wars with the same respect as Einstein's field equations. It just feels weird, and wrong.