Greg

I know it's gotten great reviews...I simply can't finish it. Maybe later

I thought this was a fantastically fun novel. Well plotted - and for God's sakes it's about the rare book trade. This cements me as a John Grisham fanboy!

Listened to this book and now must go back and read it in order to take copious notes and apply! Great book although at times the case study after case study format did get a bit tiring.

Good. I'm just not sure I'm even enough of a rudimentary artist to make this work for me. Perhaps with practice...but I think I need to concentrate first on basic handwriting.

Front piece for AWAI...Agora publishing. Gold. Commodities. Failing dollar. are our purported salvation.

Strong and moody with evocative language. The author worked as a roustabout in the circus for three years so you get an insider look at the behind the scenes workings. This story is at times bleak and takes you deep into a point form where you see no salvation. You do finally emerge but to a somewhat weak ending.

Down under coming of age story of two surfer boys and their relationship with their mysterious mentor and his limping American wife. Storyline was OK and I learned some things about surfing.

Dad is boring.

I know I'm in the minority but yikes - for me this was snoozeville and I usually enjoy Jim Gaffigan.

Sweet. Bittersweet. Laudatory. Confusing.

Viagra, Sacred Virgins, Blow up - sex doll saints, dump dogs.

Stigmata - fake, travel agents/sex partners (supernatural?), transvestites, donkey blow jobs.

The Circus.

Everything that should make this Irving novel great and it was. Once you hit the crescendo with books like, “A Prayer for Owen Meany” or “The World According to Garp”. It's hard for every book to be that magical.

This one delivers...I think.

Great fantastical fun!

This second story in “The Others” series is fantastic. Great world building and the relationships are on target even if we don't know what that target is supposed to be.

Let me start out by saying I loved Mr. Allen's first book “Getting Thing's Done” and have put the practices in to place, have sent employees to his seminar, and have generally been a cheerleader.

This book falls flat. This is what it felt like Mr. Allen was saying to me.

1. You DIDN'T understand what I was trying to say in my first two books.
2. You CAN'T understand what it was I was trying to say in my first two books.
3. Let me make this more academic and less understandable so I can write another book to tell you how you don't understand the complexity of simplicity.

HOWEVER - I would highly recommend getting the book from the library, skipping directly to the appendices, and making copies for personal use. There is some real value in those last 8 - 10 pages.

The show is fun the book is OK.

Fair. Not as engaging as her other Fox series books have been.

Fun read in immersion non-fiction. Mr. Jacobs is a good writer and comes up with subjects that will appeal to almost everyone. If you are interested in your health it's definitely worth a read.

Every now and again I feel the need to get back to some of my early genre reading in fantasy and horror. This was the perfect scratch for this itch. Mr. Gregory's use of language was surprising (like a cartoon elephant's trunk) and kept my interest throughout. The ending was a bit formulaic but for some reason entirely forgivable.

I hate books that can't come up with a better way to end than it was all a dream...or was it - and yet there were some very well developed characters. It was good enough to finish.

Theory sans action = stasis....read his first book “A Whole New Mind” if you want something to get your jazz going.

I liked the book at the beginning and was compelled to keep reading to the end. There are some disturbing elements to the book. I did drift when the author went into an angst ridden 9/11 plot sub line. I think the book would have gone to at least four stars for me if the author had just told the story. ALthough as I write this I would say he captured the feeling of 9/11 pretty well for all of us. I'm just not sure it was appropriate for this book.

Premise is good. Gets muddled in the middle. Nathan seems like a rescue character who has no real purpose except to move the story when the author gets stuck.

The Ozarks hills are the perfect backdrop to excellent characterization. Ms. McHugh weaves a story of intrigue, betrayal, and redefines the meaning of family as opposed to blood kin.

My only tiny wince is that the ending seemed a bit hurried.

More to come when I get a chance.

Loved this story till I didn't. I never figured out what the “deal” was so I was ultimately not satisfied. The voice was sometimes fantastic but the final few pages left me deflated.

Basically good. A little long on narrative and the whole last part of the book was really dense with explanation that wasn't artfully imparted. Also the term Man Wolf which is applied to the turned characters, while I realize this is to differentiate between the common term of Wolf Man, it feels clunky...and yet several times I'm told I'm supposed to love that literary convention.

I know this sounds snarky but for all I've said, I'd still recommend it and I would say that Ms. Rice is showing some of her earlier chops.

As always Tim Ferris is a winner.

Non-fiction book about one woman's year long journey into creating her own reality. Mostly a good book although some of the folks she quoted I resonated with more than the author. One quote in particular was delightful and I paraphrase...“How can you open yourself to abundance if your heart is closed tight like a fist?” Again, I'm not looking at the book so the quote is probably just close but I love the lesson.

If you believe in creating your own reality this is a quite good reference.