Alyse

This is insane. I love it

More talk about inflation and taxes than a Ron Paul book

Lizzie Borden meets Cthululu. Yep. That'll work for me

Super dry and full of characters defined solely by their technical expertise. Exactly how I like my science fiction

I'll read pretty much any spy story a hammer and sickle on the cover, but this was silly. And the dialogue was horrible

Fascinating subject, but a good chunk of this book is marginally related nonsense. I didn't care about the author's personal life or his interpolation of how long-gone people thought or felt.

Convoluted, Russian-influenced fake histories and religions full of spies and unhinged people. I'm there.

Lord knows I love spies, stoic lady scientists, and unnecessary philosophical conversations...but this was kinda boring

This is not how logic works

Why does Scully occasionally have blonde hair???

Hot damn, this is good

Childless women are up to no good

This is way more interesting than I thought it would be.

I think this was written by a 12-year-old kid. The humor is painful. CBS-sitcom level painful. No story need this many disco “jokes”. The dialogue is stilted. The character development is non-existent. The science is interesting, but it's mostly just algebra and unit conversions

Miranda Hart makes me happy

Amazing subject, but I hate this Narrative-Non-Fiction genre

Just once, I'd like a character in a Connie Willis book to go back in time and not spend all their time worrying about altering the past

Contains the most adorable, “and then I chopped off his ass so that I could eat it later” conversion that I've, personally, ever read

This is somehow really boring and really compelling at the same time

A crap-ton of world building, not a lot of plot

Oryx and Crake was a long prologue. This is the actual story. The interlocking plots are fun, even if they get pretty coincidental at times. And as always I love Atwood's paranoia and concise prose. Plus Toby is my hero and Zeb is a dreamboat.

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to agree with the author and call this Star Wars meets Game of Thrones, but certainly Farscape meets Mass Effect. But there is absolutely nothing wrong with that

This is way more interesting than it has any right to be

For someone with such a fascinating life he sure goes off on a lot of boring tangents

I love the things Jonathan Lethem can do with words, but sometimes I wish he'd remember to include a plot. Also, the last 200 pages are as horrible as everyone says