I like to think I'm fairly intelligent and I usually like reading about physics, but I don't know if it's that she didn't do as well a job as like Hawking at explaining things, or it is finally a topic that I really have a hard time wrapping my head around.
I also didn't really care for the partial memoir of growing up in Albania. I can totally respect that but if I wanted the authors memoir I would have bought that instead.
And while I was hoping more for theoretical discussion of what "existed" pre-Big Bang, it was more about how the big bang happened. Misleading title.