Nomad Scry

Creeeeeepy! I couldn't listen to this one when I was falling asleep. The ending was a bit mush for me but that was okay. The shear amount of hair raising, shivers, and uncomfortable confusion more than made up for anything I could invent to complain about. (The narrator did an excellent job, especially with Annie and Campbell.)

Best Cat & Bones so far. I always seem to enjoy it when a human (or in this case, human-ish) steps up and accepts vampire responsibilities.

Considering the target audience seems to be 8 to 12 year old boys, I'm mildly surprised at the amount of noise I'd heard about #4 or Pitticus Lore. Maybe it was something non-story related? Whatever. I enjoyed the story, though not enough to make me want to read further. Maybe the inevitable movie adaptation will change my mind.

Have you ever read any of the annotated Sherlock Holmes? This runs in the same vein. ;) I described AL:VH to a friend as less entertaining and more (deeply) interesting. I now want to know more about the real story of Lincoln. I want to dig into the spots where fact and Grahame-Smith's creations meld together. Is there a real Henry? Did Will really get accosted by a stranger? Gah! I don't have time for the obsession that I could have over this subject.

While the beginning was numbing, the further I got, the more I was drawn in. Each continuing revelation of further layers of complications and deceptions made me glad that I had decided to stay on board. I just wish the next part of the story was already available to me. ☺

Slightly rough beginning, but more than made up for by the heroine being heroic.

Fantastic.

Dirty, rough, visceral, and very memorable. I wasn't expecting Miriam to stay on my mind for so long after I finished reading. She's inside me now. And that's worrisome.

One of my pet peeves are bullshit sex scenes. Is sex scenes? Whatever. Altered Carbon has one early on that really grated on my nerves. And then, somehow, redeems it later on with another one that isn't pointless because of the counter balance provided by the early one.

I respect how Morgan did what he did, but that doesn't mean I liked it.

I felt like the supernatural elements were unnecessary to the story and only there so the protagonist could remain a “good” person. If those elements were removed or more incorporated, I think I would have liked the whole a great deal more. Instead, a distraction. Meh.

Very clear and very informative, until I got to the Keynesian section and then I was just bottled by margins and other jargon. I think the author made a case against Keynesian economics at the end, but I'm not sure I understood correctly.

Despite that, this book provided the essential background information that I wanted, and I'd recommend it to any other jack of all trades interested in a smidgen of economics.

I'm glad that people I trust recommended sticking with this one. I like how little things from the first book, the one I didn't like, kept turning up as significant points in the later books. And I like/dislike the Middle-Earth/Black Cauldron sort of magical dilemma that Tavi faces, because it brings a wonderful feeling of loss and meaning.

There is a lot to like here, but the best part is the fantastically satisfying way that Carey wraps things up. I love a good ending and this has one. Yay!

I'm torn about this one. There was a lot of really neat stuff later on, but I had to go past a lot of stuff that felt like a twelve year old trying to be edgy and provocative. I don't mind modern cursing in my fantasy, but this felt like a square trying to fit in by saying fuck every other word.

I do wish I could read like Gaiman... Lovely comforting voice. I shared this with my almost three year old and she was listening intently until she fell asleep. Which is a big thumbs up from her.

Instead of reading the text version, I listened to the audiobook of Timeless and really had a hard time letting go of how annoying it was to have the characters voiced the wrong way. Never mind that those voices had only been in my head, it was disturbing to hear Ivy ditzing about and Connell sounding like a blow hard. I wouldn't have followed through with the series if I had started with the audio.

That said, I really enjoyed all the bits with the baby Prudence. She is wonderfully precocious and reminds me of my own little soul stealers. And I hope that Carriger eventually follows up with more of Prudence's adventures growing up.

The young little liar was really quite interesting. Sadly, the book isn't about him. Instead, it stars the vaguely clever adult Locke being neither smart nor capable, instead relying on a suicidal stubborn streak. Which would have still been fine if the story hadn't persisted in telling what was coming before it came. And at that point, I think I still would have been happy if some of the world's mysteries had been addressed. But they weren't.

Fast, fun read with no squick. My only real objections were with some word choices, like describing furniture as second hand rather than used, ratty, worn out, or some other visual descriptor.

Very nice introduction to what Marx really was wanking on about, though the commentating was a bit high-handed.

It's funny. The only thing wrong here is that I liked the way I misremembered the series ending better than the actual ending. I guess that's a risk when rereading a series after (insert too many years.)

I really liked how the ending addressed the issues with the manner that Tavi solved his issues. Very cool, Butcher.

The problem with the abrupt ending of the prior book is that I had no idea what the hell was going on here. So much so, that I thought I must have accidentally skipped a book.

I guess I am a bit disappointed, though. I can't recall what happened and I just finished! It couldn't have been that fantastic.

More an episode than a novel, and still not bad without being the equal of the TV series.

What can I say? It's a PKD, so I expected and received a bizarre experience that left me a little more than confused as to what really happened and what was “merely” in the narrator's head. Recommended.

Fully loaded with ideas and interesting irony. Mostly with regards to the author's personal bigotry but whatever.