Ok, obviously he can't include everything, and I felt like there was a lot missing in terms of math and statistics and science and what not. However, that may just be my bias. He also had a lot on architecture that I could care less about, but that may be because I know so little about it.

Besides that, wonderful book. A little slow at the start, but the ending flew by as I raced through the pages. Again, could be my bias. ( )

Imagine a book that gives a paragraph to every person in the 20th Century. Or at least to everyone who got his name in the news for more than a day: scientists, writers, philosophers, artists, you name it. All are here in this fatboy of a book weighing in at 800 plus pages. ( )