Dave

It felt super misogynistic and very classist. I think it's a product of the time, he doesn't come across as mean about it more like Very matter of fact. It made it hard to get at the heart of what he was trying to do (I think) which is get you to try and imagine what a fourth dimension would be like through analogy. By telling you a story of a two dimensional creature having to get a grip on a three dimensional reality, he's really trying to get you to understand how it is to conceive a fourth dimension. Which is kind of cool. But slogging through the classist mysoginy seems like too much to get through.

Read the ebook, I don't have the limited edition actual copy.

A couple of these stories were pretty creepy and good, and a couple of them were just kind of musings of a middle-to-late aged man. I give it a clear ‘meh' except the man in the black suit. That had an old timey feel with some real menace that I quite liked.

On the plus side, this book's opening is a great hook and draws you in. It has some really interesting ideas about time travel and how navigating a multiverse would be. The ideas aren't just clones of other popular ideas floating around that I've seen, it's something different and the actors in the story seem to be richly described and thought through a bit.

On the negative side I thought there was too much description of action/adventure which I'm not a huge fan of. There are only so many times I can read about the hero barely dodging laser death or almost perishing before I just don't care anymore and want to advance the story. The hero is a bit of the white guy savior cliche but it's an old story so I give it a little forgiveness.

A solid weird story that went in a totally unexpected direction for me that was somewhere between alright and good. The opening really was the best part though...

I am a sucker for dystopian fiction, and this certainly qualifies. I like the story and it's interesting how it's told without first person tense and pronouns from the speaker. When the dude finds a house ready for him full of knowledge and treasure to just take and then he starts talking about how he will only live by his own works I think that's the most Ayn Rand thing I've ever read.

Crichton has a lot of exposition and sometimes it's a little clunky why there's characters explaining to one another something that is common knowledge with the group experiencing whatever the story is about. You should expect this in the book.

I thought that this had a similar pattern to Disclosure in some ways. Something wonky happened with a high-tech product and the protagonist has to find the right people to get information that makes the pieces fit together despite management setting you up to fail. The specifics of the friction and trouble are different of course, in one it is sexual harassment shenanigans and in this one it is union trouble and EVPs fighting for more money.

I thought it was alright, the murder attempt being kind of brushed off as union hijinks was a little off putting. I'd read disclosure over this one though.

The invisible man starts as kind of an ass so if there is a morality tale about how being released from moral restrictions by being unobserved it is a little lost on that. This is a pretty fun read otherwise.

I really liked the story, honest. But I take a star for the large variety of racist terms that don't really add anything to the story and I take another star for the solution to a great old one rising to reclaim the planet is running it over with a boat. Put a damper in the terrible god like being.

I am a huge fan of the first 4 books in the gunslinger series. This filled in a little bit of missing time when Roland was chasing the man in black and I liked that pretty well.

There were a little things I saw changed here or there from what I remember the original book having, but I don't think it was huge changes so far.

In a way, this book reminded me quite a lot of guns, germs and steel in that it took a theory explained in the first few pages and then showed you repeated examples of the theory explaining historical examples. It just so happens that all the examples happened in the last 10-20 years instead of millennia. If it wasn't about such a depressing topic it would be amusing. It also is written blissfully unaware of the coming Trump presidency.

the art was quite good, for no reason that I know I found the text font to be off-putting when contrasted with the art.

Decent story, I thought the ending and the method of Roland's survival to be a little hard to swallow.

This is a pretty amazing story. I won't rehash it, it's a quick read. But this book is both an amazing sci-fi story and the terror communicated by the story teller comes through still today.

I knock it a star because of the ending. I feel like it's a bit cheap. I'd give it 4.5 if I could though.

I read Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls right on top of each other. They are fast food reading and I enjoyed myself enough. I checked out a bunch of other Patterson books after finishing those and discovered that the Alex Cross stories are really repetitious and quit after a few others read.

If you are down to read some schlock, this is fun enough. I wouldn't go much further than this one in the series.

This is easy reading, a loose collection of stories, memories and thoughts about death, grieving and the impact these feelings have on a family. I found the name dropping tedious, and the snapshots of family life an incredibly privileged sort of life that I find it hard to find sympathy for. I am sorry for your loss, but good lord this is some upper crust grief right here.

This was entertaining a bit, and I can appreciate the thoughts being advanced on how people getting tagged as elitist can maybe try and reconcile with the populist people. Now I've got to go find a book that's about not coming across as smug.

this was a decent detective story. A bit of fluff around location description that I just skip, but the characters felt fleshed out more than usual in this kind of thing. I'm glad there wasn't like a triple cross twist at the end, it was just solid.

I couldn't finish it and skipped chunks like pages of songs to have sex to and the sex horoscopes.

This reads like a bunch of cosmo articles. The author seems alright enough and she tells plenty of amusing anecdotes but it's really just not my bag.

I read this as a stand alone book. I didn't know (not did it seem you should have been familiar with) the characters in the book. This was ok. It had some interesting ideas but really not a whole bunch happened in the book, it was just kind of psuedo-sciencey magic.

I'd give it somewhere between 2 and 3 stars. I find the characters a bit odd to believe in and I especially find it tough to believe that people would be convicted and hanged on some of the chain of reasonings supplied. In this one, the final bit to force a confession was more plausible than some of the other ones I've seen.

The story is about a student boarding house, and the various shenanigans that students engage in. Poirot gets a person killed by poking around and then it goes downhill from there. :)

I read this looking to understand what people see in Trump and what they think Trump has done for them in the time he's been president. The title of the book implied that it would help me understand why the state of America should be considered winning and why I would want to vote for Trump in the upcoming election.

Unfortunately, the title is a promise not kept. It is a meandering slog of ranting about how various people in the political spectrum suck and are contemptible. This is usually Democrats, but he touches on suckage for many different people. Would not call it a balanced amount of rage in any way, just wanted to note that he doesn't like some republicans either.

There is an incredible amount of vitriol for Ted Kennedy, which makes me want to ask “Where did Ted touch you? Can you point to the area on this doll?” I mean, seriously, how this has anything to do with Trump and winning is beyond me.

Anyways, if you listen to AM talk radio with a conservative bent, you've got the jist of what this hack is laying down. You can save yourself the trouble. I really was hoping to hear stories of people, ordinary people tell me the positive things they are enjoying because they voted for Trump. If anyone has a line on that book, please let me know. I have an open mind but I just see Trump as a clown that failed up way too far. I want to understand why others don't see the same thing.

I thought the book had a few sections that I skipped over where it was just a wall of words describing something I had long before gotten the point of, but other than that I thought the world portrayed made sense, had interesting characters and events and told a story I didn't want to put down.

I thought this book was well written and provided detailed critique of Beck's schtick and how he has ruined people's lives and influenced violent people when they act out. It lacks a call to action, so that if I agree with the central premise of the book (Glenn Beck is a shyster contributing to national disunity and making it difficult to have a shared truth) there is nothing I can do about it personally to feel like I am helping the world bend towards justice.

This was a little too cutesy and for me felt like a lot of common sense. I was looking for more information about what society expects from certain situations, but the book presented a way to look and operate in the world. More like philosophy. I did appreciate the philosophical stance though.

It was a fun book, and I liked the double mystery.

The subject matter is fascism in the U.S., as told by someone writing in the mid-30s. As a story, and the main subject of the book both are interesting enough and the book seems fairly realistic if a little jaunty about people facing life and death.

The reason I don't give it full marks is the writing style was difficult for me to parse and keep coherent. I'm fairly well-versed in history and I still didn't understand a good chunk of the references and asides.

Given the time we're living in now, looking at the government converting to more authoritarian rule is quite interesting. But the read was quite a slog.

For such a small book, I found it a bit hard to get through. It was trying to show things to be mindful of in this modern flavor of autocratic rule in the U.S., but I found it similar to a in-depth web article.