A Briefer History of Time

I read this in order to compare to A Brief History of Time, thinking this might be a better recommendation for most people. Both books felt pretty much the same to me (although I didn't read them back to back).

I was particularly interested in the presence of more diagrams. My purely scientific thoughts on those, however, were “meh”. It felt like an excuse to advertise “color pictures!” without actually including anything of value.

I'd stick with the original, which I do recommend.