Mr Fred
Good, fascinating book. What was confusing at times is that simple concepts were explained (“an ellipsis is an elongated circle”) and other much harder topics were somewhat glanced over. Nonetheless, I had fun reading.
Holy smokes. Explosive story, every page was a new revelation and a scandal of its own. Could hardly put it down.
Neil Gaiman is a great storyteller and this is an amazing retelling of these timeless tales. I recommend the audiobook, read by the author himself.
Great volume in the series. In this (eventually) fast-paced story, Bond gets himself tangled up in business that should be easy to solve, and yet, as usual, he himself, and his closest acquaintances, get hurt. That Bond's inner monologue speaks to me more than I care to admit just adds to the intrigue.
Not the best Bond. Plenty of action especially towards the end, but also fairly single threaded and simplistic. Another variant of the brilliant billionaire villain.
Entertaining, fast paced and intense at the end. Perhaps a little dated in the details, but what do we expect anyway from a book this old.
An intriguing book about the true nature of time (or lack thereof), I enjoyed it. Toward the end the author derails a bit into rambling jargon and then, apologetically, lands on an overview of his general life philosophy. Overall though, a good, relatively fast read.
A tremendously fun book. Few people understand both the science and the magic of the world's top auto race championship in the way Newey does, all the while remaining remarkably down to earth and human. I enjoyed every second of it.
Great fundamental book about modern racism and the fight for racial justice. Oluo shares her experience with the necessary bluntness yet empathy for her reader who probably picked up her book to learn and do better and become an agent for change. Her writing is humorous, enlightening, and despite centuries of hardships for people of color, she remains full of hope. I admire and respect her for it, and recommend this book to anyone.
A great nerdy heist (?) book where, as in all great heists, everything goes to hell very quickly. Artemis is no Martian, but it is still an enjoyable space book and there's plenty of entropy to contend with in this one, too.
Great book about the ups and downs of an accomplished career, and notably his extended thoughts on passing with dignity.
Overall very accessible if you have some background in the subject matter. However, the book was also very concise (intentionally) so if you were hoping of diving deeper you might be disappointed.
Intriguing, mostly entertaining, but not groundbreaking or even particularly surprising. All in all a book I enjoyed but wouldn't talk my friends into reading.
Entertaining insights into Franken's personal history and an honest discussion of the current state of the Senate.
A well researched and riveting book about a misguided libertarian idealist turned white collar druglord. It's truly fascinating not only to read about him but also about the people who enabled, benefitted from, were harmed by and hunted him.
A deep insight into one of America's most violent gangs. The story is well told, and from beginning to end it is hard not to be repeatedly struck by the pointlessness of it all, the toxicity and sadness.
A collection of James Bond short stories, entertaining though all in all not nearly as polished as the first installments of the series. You can tell how these later books were simply turned into “action dude does action dude stuff” when the films were made. Some of the internal struggle that defines the earlier books is still present here, to be fair, but he ends up shrugging it off a lot more, in favor of whichever pretty woman crossed his path today.
It's great that the author highlights the fates of women who would become the worst kind of involuntary pioneer: who had to suffer and die for people, lawmakers, corporations to start caring about a modicum of workplace safety and worker protection.
The writing itself starts smoothly and easy to follow, alas after a while gets repetitive and lengthy recounting every single minute event in detail and it seems a good editor could have shortened the book substantially.
Four stars for the subject, three for the writing.
This one was tough. The story becomes very cerebral, the choices made keep getting worse, until finally everything explodes in a supernova of broken glass and bitter regret and the taste of disgust (for the villain) is all that remains of this strange novel.