Michael Flynn

Ended up really liking it. The story moves along somewhat predictably (the good guys win?!?), but there are enough really cool ideas in the mix to make it more than worthwhile.

I bought the second book in the series right away, if that tells you anything. I like a well done fantasy book and I think this one more than qualifies.

Heavy.

The commentary about belonging to a group was very interesting.

A good, quick read. I think my oldest daughter will be into it.

They may have saved Hollywood, but it appears to have been at the expense of several marriages and a good deal of human decency. There isn't a single person mentioned in this book who comes out looking admirable or even decent.

Maybe you have to be that sort of at-all-costs person to make good movies, but I can't really reconcile that with all of the straight shittiness that went on. And that's assuming all of the stories are true.

Fits the dictionary definition of “cracking read”. Once the ball started rolling I couldn't put it down.

As much as I enjoyed it I struggled with a couple of things: 1) I don't know how to pronounce non-Arabic letters in Swedish so I was constantly distracted when I was trying to figure out what words sounded like. I got better towards the end of the book, but it bugged me early on.

2) “Kalle Blomquist”. I didn't look it up until after I finished. A solid American parallel is “Encyclopedia Brown”. This bugged me every time I saw it and I'm a dummy for not looking it up sooner.

I really, really liked this book. To say more might spoil it and I think it's best enjoyed without knowing too much going in.

I should mention that I definitely wouldn't file this as a “vampire” book. It's totally not.

Absolutely gripping read of the near-collapse of the US banking system.

I work in the industry so I watched all of this unfold on CNBC, but these first-person accounts are fascinating.

If you're remotely interested in what happened I highly recommend that you read this book.

Too Big to Fail was written by a reporter and it was much more about what happened. Michael Lewis doesn't pull any punches with his thoughts on who he thinks is to blame and what he thinks of them in The Big Short.

I liked this a lot, and some of that is no doubt because I agree with Lewis on a number of points.

Good read. Faber does well at the tough job of explaining just what those bankers built that caused so much trouble.

It's pretty amazing what these guys got away with for so long.

Loved it. I know it was a big deal when it was new but I never really thought it would be as good as the movie (which is high cinematic art, IMO). I think the book is better right now but I am going to watch the movie again to see it with fresh eyes.

I'm not as into this one as I was the last, but I'm reading it to keep up with Emma.

I liked it well enough. The teenage angst was a bit much at times, but it seemed to fit how selfish Q had been the whole time. There were a couple of scenes that I thought we terrific and really balanced out some of the elements I wasn't crazy about.

This would be a solid beach read, IMO.

And the paperback is cheaper than the kindle edition so it's a definite sand-n-surf candidate.

I am all in on these Peter Grant books. This is another good one.

It was fun to get back to these characters. I enjoyed the twists and the callbacks.

Fun followup novella.

It was fine. I didn't know anything about it (or the fanbase) going in so I didn't have any notion of what was coming. There were definitely some cool bits, but the things that put me off will keep me from reading more. I finished it, which is something more than nothing.

I ended up not like Harry Dresden very much and that will be a roadblock from moving through the rest of these.

I'm a Krakauer fan but took a while to get around to this one.

It's a gripping read, for sure, but holy mackerel is the subject matter aggravating. The gall of these fundamentalists is just amazing. Jaw-dropping and horrible, really.

Quick and interesting read. Some really neat history in there.

I got this for Emma based on a review on BoingBoing. She got into it right away and raced through it. It was killing her not to spoil it to me so I went behind her and knocked it out.

Great read. I'd recommend it for sure.

I did not enjoy this book.

I loved In and of Itself, so I was totally in the bag for this book before I started it. I'm glad it ended up being good.

Loved this. I was a fan of the comic book back when it was in singles. I grabbed my copy of this from Kagan at SDCC this year. It was cool to meet him and to tell him in person that I like his work.

if you like comics and Kung Fu movies you should definitely check this out.

I didn't like this.