Dave

Pretty quick moving, rough little tale about a guy being pushed around and how he enlists others to help. There is a twist so I'll keep it vague. It's short, sweet, to the point and I liked it. I can't say anything else.

It is fairly shallow reading. If you are looking for some deep revelations or sage advice, this is not the book for you. If you want to repeatedly be told to be kind and think about how others feel in your actions in various mildly amusing ways, this book is for you.

I have read about half this book, and I'm pretty sure I'm done with it. It is very heavy on the mindset that you should take if you want to pursue being wealthy and it is incredibly light on the details of how to accomplish the not insignificant task of actually building wealth. Instead, it seems to encourage you to believe in a the secret like idea that if you believe in a thing it will actualize in the world.

I give it 2 stars instead of 1 because I think the mindset thing is important but these days lots of people think they are worth more than they really are so I don't know if the advice is too timely.

I've read a lot of Stephen King and considered myself a fan. I would not recommend this book to anyone other than a completionist. I thought desperation was a bit better even though it had a lot of God rolling around in it. This seemed to be a rehash of some ideas that brought us desperation and didn't really gel as well as desperation did for me.

Things I've learned about what Heinlein thinks about himself:

- I love cats
- all women want me
- I'm the coolest MF on the planet

There's nothing particularly wrong with this, and if etymology and a dash of history are your thing you might rate this much higher. The actual words that surprised me as coming from someone's name (rather than from another language which is what I usually assume) were few. I either had never heard the word before or I knew that it was derived from someone who personified the meaning.

Anyways, it was fine to read through but I don't think I'll remember much, so I say it's ok.

This needed editing or something. It went on a long time

I thought Ride the Bullet was probably one of the better ones, but none of these stories are bad. I also really enjoyed 1408.

Comes close to the old school King that I remember reading voraciously as a kid. I think King's best form is the short story or maybe even expanding to a novella (The Mist and 4 seasons are great).

This was a swashbuckling yarn with some old school views on women. If you can get past the real sexism (maybe appropriate for the time, lord knows) it's a fun enough story. You'll probably see the ending coming a mile away but it's decently good time getting there.

I'm not sure I care much for either plays adapted to books or Poirot in this one. I've liked his personality well enough in other books, but this grated.

I didn't find the stories about the psychology of robots as interesting as I think other people do I think it was made up problems that are given weird solutions.

But it was entertaining enough to read.

I've read this one a couple times. I really loved when the story was in our world, especially the last door but the trip along the coast and the handling hostile Ms.Walker was not the greatest of story-time for me. Overall, still in the ‘very good' category.

I thought it was easy reading, a spooky story with a good twist. It's not 5 stars because the ending felt like it want even there. So I'm a little torn.

There wasn't anything particularly original presented in the story, so I can't give it full marks. It was a pretty standard revenge story in a way. However, the way the story was told was tight and you can blow through it in a single sitting. There is a fair amount of story packed into that little space.

I on the nose satire about consumerism.

This is a book for middle schoolers, so take my reading with that caveat.

When someone writes a book about the hyper competent person and everyone wants to bang him, it grosses me out like when people involved you in their public lewdness kink without your permission. This is some real auto-fellating nonsense. Also, it must have been pretty racist back in the day.

I save 1s for books so boring I can't finish them. This wasn't boring, I'll give it that.

I am not familiar with the author but I'm guessing he is paid by insurance companies or was for a long time. I think annuities do have a time and place as part of your total plan but this dude sells it pretty hard. I give this pitch and the first portion of the book making that pitch like zero stars.

The second half of the book walks through fairly detailed planning of converting a traditional 401k into a Roth IRA this part of the book I think is well thought out and well laid out. All the stars in my rating come from this portion of the book.

I might be too hard on annuities but I feel like if you've gotten into social security then you already have some form of annuity built into your retirement program. I don't know if they're cool enough to double down on. I do kind of like the idea of a life insurance vehicle that will pay for long-term care and provide a death benefit if you don't use it I'll have to look into it.

I thought this was fairly interesting sci-fi, I'm not in love with how it ended but I can see that there's more in the series so maybe that will help. I found the alien race fairly interesting in describing a fairly in-depth view into plausible reasons for them to act like they do.

Oddly enough, the way the human empire is portrayed in this docked it a few points. They were not well developed or believable.

The book has an interesting quandary that is posed by the alien society, but in the end I thought the book was just alright.

This really comes across as cutesy newspaper comics with no story or anything. It's just member-berries with a twist of fatherhood jokes. Some are good, which is why it gets 2 stars and not 1. But it's not written for kids, even though it looks like it is. It's written I'm guessing for people my age who have children and know star wars really well.

This one is pretty wild in a few different ways. It seems like misogyny is in full stride here. The villain is.over the top. This is like the fourth book I've read where Bond is catching someone cheating at a gentlemen's card game. I figure the author got cheated by somebody once in his life and has never given up that memory.

I give this three stars instead of two only because it is so over the top outlandish you kind of have to read it to believe it.

I've read worse, but it was a pretty rambling reflection of what he had done with his kids and how he thought they'd turned out pretty sweet so you might want to absorb his wise ways.

It was hard to formulate a call to action in my life based on this meandering collection of stories. I do agree with a few of the more core principles, letting our kids fail more and try to do big adult things more so they learn how to operate independently is a recurring point to his anecdotes.

I did feel like the spinning of early U.S. history was a bit “good ol' days” leaning, but I wasn't as offended too much by that.

I'm marking it read, although I didn't actually get to finish the book. I went in thinking it would be practical advice about living frugally but it was more of a reminiscence coupled with folksy wisdom on random topics. I wouldn't say the advice was bad, a couple of bits stick out as quite solid (Don't carry credit card debt, take the plunge on a long foreign trip when young, others). But I felt like the book read more like a mildly interesting reflection on the author's life instead of practical advice. This was very different from my expectations, and also I don't like even themed autobiographies that much so I don't rate it very high.

The writing was fair, it doesn't feel too dated, but it wasn't what I was looking for.

This book had a good start and I liked some of the ideas they were hinting at in the beginning. I started to not like the book when some comic book store guy showed up with all the exposition and the ending made me almost give it a one, it was seriously crazy hokey.

If you like supernatural stories with white and black magic, maybe you'll like it. I can't recommend it.