Dave

I figured this would be life lessons on how money affects your life. This was a rambling bitch and moan session about jerk people. Usually with money.

I identify as pretty liberal, so this isn't me saying that I don't like bashing republicans. But this book was lazy writing and I found it tough to get a coherent philosophy from the writer.

A good yarn about post apocalyptic America

This was a good page turner. I liked the descriptions of societies in post warish America. Nothing really silly in the future tech department is employed. Recommended if you like distopian with a dash of hope and patriotism.

Not just a fascinating read

Also has actionable items to integrate into your life and helpful summaries. Tore through this book, but it has great summaries per chapter

A blog turned into a book

This had some interesting ideas, but felt like I was reading a listicle. There was nothing wrong with the writing but few were practical.

It did not go into enough depth, but it was a check list of questions you should have asked yourself if you know what your plan is about X. It's like how to be responsible with money as an adult.

I'll save you the pages. The way to get your house clutter free in 5 days is to get some friends to come in and help take all the clutter out of each room and put it where it should go. With boxes.

Good basic advice

The book covers basic scenarios in good depth. I especially appreciated the chapter summaries with lists of things to do

I couldn't finish it. It made me gag reading this guy brag about being a jackass. An ignorant jackass no less.

This was a book filled with half-assed common advice you get off of a website, told in a gruff “tough-love” manner. It wasn't particularly useful nor will I remember much of the advice from the book in a couple weeks time because of the broad scope of the life problems talked about.

None of the advice seemed particularly harmful though, so I don't hate it.

This had a bit of something for everyone I thought. Psychology of a soldier examined, thoughts on society and how you can slip out of sync with it, culture shock. I just tore right through it, and had a great time doing so.

This book is an older one, but was recommended and loaned to me by a friend when I asked for an example of good sci-fi writing. I found the story to be pretty engaging and it had several side stories that described a vision of the future I thought was decently believable. No magic dressed up as science, and I enjoyed the examination of what alien life might be like. It didn't get to crazy into details, but imagined several distinct life forms that weren't just humanoid things with antennae. I'm happy I read it.

I really like it when sci-fi writers try to imagine the impact a technology would have on society. This book is glimpse into several different people's life in a post-scarcity world. It centers on the tale of a girl coming by a very special book and how it shapes that girl's life.

The book had some very fascinating ideas about what shifts society would take given trivial creation of people's basic needs. I enjoyed the snapshots of different parts of the world and cultures trying to come to grips with all the upheaval that this brings.

The story was a bit on the simpler side, and the character's rationals seemed off. And not because it's how people are in the future, or maybe it is but it made the story kind of suck for me.

I'd give it 2 stars but I like the story's setting. It's pretty much a straight forward crime novel, almost boring, but the theme and flavor gives it a little bump.

If you ever wanted to read a book that had a similar feel to say Goonies - quite a bit goofy, dorky but lovable heroes, epic quest for treasure while being doggedly pursued by bad guys - then I've got the book for you. I found the countless regurgitation of my childhood a bit much which is why I just “like” the book. The story is a feel good yarn, nothing really amazing happening in here. The story is a well-worn but loved one.

This was a decent book, but it definitely reflected the age of the author. Lots of nostalgia is indulged in, which kind of makes the story drag a little bit. But, the main story line itself is pretty decent. If it had been reduced down to a short story, something King used to be so good at, this would have been an excellent read.

The story was a little unusual in how it was structured, but it wasn't too hard to get into. The story itself seemed to end (to me at least) ambiguously, like there wasn't a theme that really tied it together for me the story just sort of stopped.

The last few pages that describe the event hinted out throughout the book were really good. The delayed payoff coupled with really good writing bumped this up a notch.

Kind of like a girl interrupted story crossed with the movie Kids. I thought the writing was interesting, but the quick shifts from reality to fantasy/hallucination really made it hard to understand why you care about this terrible thing described vs. some other terrible thing being described.

It was alright, I wouldn't tell you to not bother finishing it but I wouldn't recommend you start.

The art was ok for me, and it was interesting to learn that Dahmer had friends in high school and to get some information about this time in his life. But, as a story it was just mildly interesting and just kind of sad.

Man have relations between the sexes changed since the book was written

While this is not the worst of Stephen King, it's not the best either. But I am a bit biased as time travel stuff just usually doesn't work for me. Reviews saying that Stephen King likes to romanticize the 50s in general and this book in particular are correct. I don't agree with the haters on the love story.

If you like to read there are certainly worse things to put yourself through. It read pretty easy, and I thought the ending was decent.

This book covers the final days of the civil war and has biographies for a few of the major characters involved. I think there was not a lot of deep analysis of the motivations of the people there, just kind of a re-hashing of history.

This book was definitely supposed to be used as a tale of competing philosophies. I found the main character to be unlikable, inscrutable, and long-winded.

As a story, this is just garbage to read through. As a philosophy on display, it's not much better.

This was a large collection of anecdotes of people successfully becoming wealthy. There was a couple of interesting points where it talked about common personality traits of the successful people detailed in the book most of it revolving around a healthy amount of self-esteem. I felt front there was a fair amount of trying to redefine what wealthy was which made me suspicious that it was not really trying to talk to me about the psychology of wealthy people but rather how to find inner happiness even though you're poor.

If you want to provide some anecdotes of people succeeding and attitude a presentation or talk this book might be interesting for you otherwise I would pass.

I had a hard time suspending disbelief for some of the other things that Dan Brown has written, this one is no exception.

I am really all over the map on where to rate this one. Personally, I think the Trojan war was not exciting reading in it's original form when I read the Iliad. So I thought the author did as good as a job as I can imagine being done given the source material I really hated most of the characters in the book, and that made it a bit hard to stick through