McClellan

If you want generic budgeting tips and flavourless recipes this is the place to look.

An interesting take on multiverse where the stakes aren't grand and there's no great evil to fight. Just finding meaning and existence in a universe not entirely your own something that has always been a staple of science fiction but you don't often told in such a way.

Meh

The author clearly had a blast scouring for video game recipes and coming up with fun recipes for them. As such this book is a delight.

written with all the effort of a Simpsons family grift.

I'm not convinced this man is actually a fan of Star Trek. Most of the economic discussion is rudimentary. Most of the analysis is either personal diatribes or weird rabbit holes into other science fiction works. It gets preachy and pessimistic and doesn't seem to host any actual desire to engage with the signature optimism of Star Trek.

Honestly I'm just glad I'm done reading it. Not interesting enough to be a good lore drop. Not well written enough to be a good fantasy novel.

American Protestant apocalypse fiction. Not with out interest, but the entire book is so over bloated, anything interesting gets heaped under some of the dumbest things I've ever read. It's a compelling premise, but I am baffled at how it remains seen as a classic.

Loved this book as a kid, but couldn't remember much about it. And rereading it as an adult is akin to finding an old journal. I was this kid and this book was a delight.

It is fascinating how these series about convoluted and stupid as shit football is one of the most meaningful reads to me, who cares precisely half a shit about sports in general.

A bit on the nose, but a fun and interesting read.

More frustrating than fun. This book starts out interesting enough, but quickly becomes a sisyphean nightmare as the most arbitrary choices lead you into a cyclical labyrinth you can't escape.

A great jumpong off point for gardening. Not too dense not to light to be helpful. The layout in a couple parts was mildly confusing, but overall a great resource to get started with.

Useful information presented in a digestible way despite its tendency towards redundancy. The also has a tendency to state “recent studies have found” without actually citing the studies in question.

More traditionally rigid in its teachings for guitar than I'm interested in, but it's a solid reference guide for guitar basics and will get you where you want to go to play more interesting music.

Not so original of a story that you cant see what happens coming, but a delightful read with wonderful characters and just that sense of feminist rage we all feel when we spend a bit too much time with older relatives.

A generic fantasy that is painful clear it was written, by a teenage boy. It does remain interesting enough that it can be a fun read, but is endlessly frustrating in places. Mostly in its portrayals of women.

Fun fantasy romp with plenty of gore and nonsense to match. Feels fittingly consistent with any TTRPG narrative I've ever played.

A decent story. Just so very angsty. Had I read it when I was younger I would've liked it more.

This is one of those books that's just.... incredibly average. Nothing about it really astounds or delights in a memorable way. It's just kind of a decent story with a few moments that seem better than the book they're a part of.

When Twilight was popular I was too busy hating it exponentially on principal to give it any real thought. Reading it for the first time as an adult is interesting. It is still a deeply flawed narrative, but I was surprised at how much actually enjoyed reading it. And I'm uncertain how it remains an engaging read throughout when almost nothing happens plot wise until like the last quarter of the book.

Read this originally when I was in middle school and never thought much of all its various problems. It's a fun read with lots of interesting characters, but rereading it as an adult offers a lot of discomfort at the way underage girls are treated and the levity in which it takes sexual harrassment.

Fun to read. Less shivvings than the cover implies.

Bizarre and surrealist this books hits some incredibly dark places, but somehow manages to always have an optimism about it. Even the most horrifying elements are grounded in such compelling humanity from the characters, that at their worst you are still rooting for them to succeed.

This novel is so convoluted, so inconsistent, and somehow capable of burying every interesting part of it in a heep of needless drivel. It hand holds you through every part offering up almost no moments for you to extrapolate or think on your own about it. The novel cant even decide if its commiting to the otherworldly ness of star wars or if it's going to really commit to referencing our normal world. Filled with wink wink nidge nudge references to everything else star wars it feels about as subtle as the merchandising scene from Spaceballs.