Meg

An encouraging and inspiring read featuring lots of interesting scientific research.

Bottom line: Move your body. However works best for you. Do it as consistently as possible. You will think better, feel better, and live better.

Most of the revelations are considered “common sense” by people well read in the science/how and why of fitness. The science of why was very interesting to me. Still, it was a very enjoyable book and for everything I “already knew” I learned a little more that I didn't.

If you love learning, ignore the negative reviews and give it a chance. Those with beginner to intermediate knowledge should learn some useful things. Those with more advanced knowledge may want to skip this one.

Do yourself a favour. If you choose to read this book, stop here.
This has about as good an ending as you're going to get, they left the city and made their own way in the lands outside the fence, faced man and nature and themselves and all that, overcame obstacles and took risks, and they lived interestingly every after.
Trust me. It's better this way.
If you really want to read the rest of the trilogy you're better off writing it yourself.

I only say this because this book in particular is actually a little fun and interesting as a light read. Kind of a Hunger Games meets Enders Game in my opinion (because the compound parts totally read like Ender, obviously Ender is wayyyyyy better written. Hunger Games is not a well written book by any means, but this has an eerily similar feel -to this day I swear it was written for the sole purpose of becoming a movie, like writing the movie novelization before the movie even gets made so that people will actually read it-)

Veronica Roth does have some great potential, her ideas are interesting and well worth pursuing. I look forward to better development and execution of those ideas in the future.

The first two acts of this book are very inspirational and a very useful tool for recognizing and helping you to pull yourself out of your own self-sabotaging, procrastinating, and distracting ways. I really enjoyed these parts and learned some things about myself in the process.
The third act is a very spiritual journey that I could really take or leave.
Ultimately the message is clear: Get out of your head and do the work, every day.

This book is FUN!
The audiobook read by Wil Wheaton is SUPER Fun!

Read with an open mind and a fan-person state of mind.
I want to say more but anything I can think of gives things away. I read this after reading nothing more than a few vague reviews saying it was a good story and well written. I also love John Scalzi and if you know anything about him or have read any of his other books this will be a treat.

There's nothing quite like a great con.
I like that this wasn't perfect, they're just people, who happen to be great thieves and con artists. They make mistakes like everyone else, and they have great victories like everyone else.
An awesome fun story. I really enjoyed it.

It starts small, personal, focused on the individual. Then grows to businesses and similar organizations. Then ultimately grows to make statements about our human nature, crowd psychology, and how we behave as communities and nations.

It was interesting but ultimately a “MEH” read.
It offers observations and generalizations, but no concrete solutions.
I'd have liked the conclusion to back track down through the intensity and bring it home to the individual more thoroughly rather than as a less cohesive afterthought.

The beginning is great fun, but this is definitely worth quitting halfway through.

Such a fun book!!
Couldn't stop!
Soooooo much better than the movie. (Though I have a wonderful place in my heart for the movie too, time for a remake more true to the book version I think or perhaps a TV series lol.)

Great continuation of the series, It reminds me of The Empire Strikes Back.... unfortunately I get the feeling a lot of the books will be like that. One reviewer said of the series “If you like closure when you read you wont find it here” by the third book I wholeheartedly agree, I am one of those souls. The endlessly unresolved tension is starting to drive me slightly crazy. I'm mostly through the the third book now and it's getting hard to keep reading.
It seems the only resolution you get in this series are when people die, I have no doubt that the only escape or peace the characters will experience is in death. I would love for the series to prove me wrong however I think I'll be taking a break from the series after this next book. I love seeing characters beat down and struggle to rise against odds in impossible fantastic situations, much like life there is usually no end to it, but the small victories are to ultimately disappointing for everyone involved (for my tastes at least).
I still very much enjoy the writing, styling and development. It has inspired me to continue Joe Ambercrombie's The Blade Itself trilogy, they have very similar feels to them, should be fun! cheers!