Brit

Interesting topic, but the format was difficult to tolerate, let alone enjoy. Snippets from separate interviews with child actors and crew members were arranged topically together, but since they were separate interviews, it was a bit choppy and not a real conversation. You could, however, tell when some interviews came later than others, because one actor would comment on the point that another actor had made in the previous snippet, as prompted by the author/interviewer.

The actor's name accompanied each quote, and sometimes I could figure out what show they were on if they mentioned it in the comments or in context with nearby quotes, but I felt like I would need to sit with IMDB open next to me and keep looking up the actors to place them in context and reflect on their shows correctly. I actually wish they showed a headshot of the character they played at the time and the show name underneath of it, preferably with each quote, but at very least in an appendix for reference until I could place the actors' names.

Read the audio book narrated by the author himself. Lovely layered story.

Interesting commentary, but the repetitive phrasing and style start to get in the way of the narrative. Also, he does such a great job summarizing the concept in the first few chapters, and then it's so interesting hearing how he ended up in this job, that once he starts telling the nitty gritty story of his time in Java, it's a bit boring, because we've already covered it so well at a slightly higher level.

Fun techie adventure puzzle of a mystery book.

Interesting enough, but the tone put me off. Some of the humor seemed lightly disrespectful or goofy to me, little side quips to take the edge off of the serious subject. Which I would have expected myself to enjoy, but it was a different sense of humor than I wanted.

Bailed halfway through. The serial killer story was fascinating, and the building of the fair was interesting, but so detailed, that it was too much for me.

Liked Mort when I read it a while ago; enjoyed meeting the Death of Rats in Reaper Man.
Power-skimmed the last bit of Soul Music. Because I am thoroughly TIRED of the same running joke about “rock music” at least a hundred pages ago.

Maybe will return to this when reading it together with a young person.

The Bastion of the book is so much less likable than the Bastion of the movie of my childhood.

Meh. Bailed halfway through. It wants to be a classic pulp sci fi adventure with modern jokes, but it's trying too hard and telling rather than showing. Also not very fair that I read a Bujold in the middle of this, which really blows most things out of the water by comparison.

I read this, and it was great. But I think I need to read it again, just to try to absorb all of the details. I am still not sure I understand it.

Recommendations from Griffin: The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwhich Horror, and the Colour Out of Space

Great start, then got annoying with the forced marriage. Stopped reading, may consider flipping forward and reading if the marriage junk disappears.

Gave up partway through the audiobook. The teenage characters seem accurately written to being teenagers, and irritate me to no end.