Steve Gross
Not sure who this book is aimed at - kids or adults. Author intrudes too much in the text.
Everything about this book screams “Amateurish” - the writing, the dialogue, the characters, the plot. Even the subtitle = “When Justice is blind, scavengers do the hunting”. What the heck does that even mean? It's awful.
Avoid this book.
Halkin is an excellent writer and a deep thinker. However, it shocked me when he said in one of the last essays that he is an optimist. The big thing lacking from all his works is any sense of joy. I also wish he would write about where he stands religiously; there are a lot of bits and pieces but I have little sense of what he believes.
Lousy. Both the math and the literary parts are wanting. Like many current books, this seems to have lacked a proofreader. Lots of repetition, mistakes (Einstein is called Eisenstein once) and the author tends to go into random excurses, discussing Hindu theology and Ledeerman's dementia for no apparent reason.
The mathematics goes from simple to difficult, but the prose is what is lacking. Things are not clearly explained as they could have been.
Erudite historian discusses all things Holmes. A little too much detail on foreign wars.
Short but deep book. Half a discussion about Reason vs Faith and half apologia for Christianity. Although I agree with the author's characterization of Islam, the same could be said of medieval Christianity, with pogroms, Inquisition, Jew burning and the like.
Another great Benn book. I would have given this 4 stars but the ending was a bit forced and not very surprising.
Probably the one I enjoyed least in the series so far. Seemed disjointed and no special magic here.
A timely book that exposes the rotten foundation of most Jewish institutions. The best essays are by Glick and Lekht.
Excellent but somewhat depressive writing, exclusively about older, male Chicago Jews.
As good as any of the Reacher novels. The first half was excellent but the second dragged a bit. The fifty-fifty refrain was nonsense.
The theory of general relativity has gone from revolutionary to almost ignored to hot again over the last 100 years. This is a difficult kind of book to write - too much detail and no one will understand it, too little and the whole enterprise is abstract and vague. On a 1 to 10 scale, with 10 being too technical, the author achieves about a 7.
Underwhelming after all I've heard about it. Mostly about Lunar life (interesting) and politics (not so interesting).
