Steve Gross

Long & Dreary. And Nora is a total pill.

Twenty-odd chapters, each one the recounting of a Mossad exploit and related stories. The writing is just fair, with the authors having a penchant for describing people's foreheads. Good if you like Mossad stories.

Everything your mother told you was wrong. Interesting and funny, just like all of Ken Jenning's books. Recommended.

Tedious and cutesy, but not as charming as the author thinks.

Better than average recreational-type math book.

Standard Gideon Oliver mystery. Well written but nothing new here except lots of Italian.

Suarez is a terrific writer who takes a science/computer idea/trend and stretches it to the max. In this case, drones. Lots of action and scary plausibility. Recommended.

Charming, very well-written modern-day fable featuring books, mysteries, technology, codes & Google.

Each chapter deals with two or three classic horror movies - who created them, how the movie was made, what were the reviews, etc. No plot summaries. Writing is simplistic and kind of boring.

A lot of blather about movies. As an example of how badly Thomson misses, he describes 2001 as “a numb elegy to advanced technology, the American space program...” Skip it.

The author explains nine enigmas of physics, such as “Why is the sky dark at night?”. A little dense at times but generally clear.

Eye-opening and funny at the same time.

Fun, interesting and informative. Well worth reading if you want to learn some things about genetics.

Overwhelming amount of data here. It's hard to digest this book in a single reading. Chapter summaries would have been helpful.

Standard entry in the Gabriel Allon series, which goes like this: some kind of crisis happens, usually in the Vatican. Gabriel is drawn in, against his will. He assembles his team. During the effort to defeat the first crisis, a much bigger one ensues. Ari Shamron appears. Eli Lavon appears. Chiara is extremely beautiful but otherwise serves no purpose. Gabriel defeats plot #2. As an afterthought, plot #1 is taken care of.

Another Reacher excellence, although could have been a little shorter.

Interesting and original.

Stewart is a boring writer. The equations were good.

Entertaining if you like magic but the author does a heck of a lot of padding. It would have been a more interesting book if he just stuck to magic.

much the same as the others.

One of the many books about getting Bin Laden. Relatively straightforward but jumps around a lot which makes it confusing at times. Probably a better book out there than this one on this topic.

Bernard Lewis is the doyen of Middle East scholars. I expected him to have had a more exciting life, visiting and studying Middle East countries and offering sage advice. Unfortunately, not much of either in this autobiography.

beautifully crafted book with color illustrations but the writing is not very clear.

Gentle introduction to understanding the words of the Hebrew bible. The ending spends too much time in the author.

What happens at the denouement is unclear.