It was well liked all around. Carolyn read it once and nearly finished it a second time. Bruce read it four times. Jenna picked it up and read random chapters from time to time. The humor was appreciated (although sometimes the glibness was distracting). He made the science pretty clear, with analogies and tricks to visualize the vast expanses of time and distance involved. There was wonderment at how much he managed to cram into the book, and on how he decided what to leave out. (There's a suspicion that he only picked the most colorful characters to give antedotes about - or maybe he just picked the most colorful antedotes.)