Review:Exceeded my expectations, and was a thoroughly enlightening read. That being said, the book should come with a disclaimer warning readers that your deadlift will increase, women will start throwing themselves at you, and you will feel an acute urge to forego clothes entirely...

Should NOT be read at wine bar with gf. Read more

Review:I wish I could convince everyone who avoids older literature to read Candide. This book is hilarious, dark, bitter, snide, and beautiful. If you love Vonnegut novels, you will likely enjoy Candide. The satire from yesteryear is just as applicable to the personal and political interactions of mankind today. Read more

Review:I like the concept that the elderly are so invisible that they (we) can get away with almost anything. However, the writing was heavy-handed and humorless. A very slow read with a less than satisfying outcome. Read more

Review:Tristram Shandy, like Don Quixote, is a classic humor novel. It contains some hilarious premises (i.e. his father being obsessed with his family's noses and Tristram's nose getting smashed by clumsy forceps work during his delivery), but the digressions, which are the central conceit of the book and can be humorous on their own, dilute the fun to the point of making it a tedious exercise to finish it. The author is clearly impressed with his own cleverness but also has a sense of humor about h... Read more

Review:a real good and entertaining read. Odd Thomas and the "good" characters are so like real people although Odd would comes across as a liitle off in real life. but that makes the stories even more entertaining and interesting. Read more

Review:This is a great book, and it knocked Blake Snyder's Save the Cat right off my bookshelf. It's funnier than hell, and the tip about writing outlines instead of screenplays was alone worth the $0.05 I paid for my used Amazon copy. And no joke, with my next script, I did that and had a completed (brilliant) script like two months later. The only issue I have with it is that I am not a successful Hollywood screenwriter yet, and I thought the book would help me take care of that pretty quickly. I mea... Read more

Review:I first got to know David Mitchell through his extraordinary CLOUD ATLAS (2004), a matrix of six connected stories in different genres and periods, encased in one another like a matroshka doll. He repeated much the same formula in his recent BONE CLOCKS (2014), though there the separate stories are linked linearly thro... Read more

Review:Seriously a MUST-HAVE. Especially after seeing Season 3. There's nothing essential, but there are enough clues peppered throughout the book to add context to some of the things going on. It can be wordy, but it's never boring. Once you get through the Nez Perce stuff in the beginning, it's hard to put down! Read more

Review:A very interesting book. The chapters leave a lot left open for you to expand upon should you choose. There are three epilogue chapters that all relate to each other, but the rest of the chapters (maybe 30 of them or so?) are only a few pages long and don't relate to each other. It can be tough to wrap your mind around some of the ideas, but once you get it they are very interesting. A great book for upper intermediate to advanced readers. Read more

Review:It is more for visual presentation. It is small. Not meant to be played with. Snitch is attached to box and does not come off. I got as a gift for someone. She will like it. She can put it on her bookshelf. Read more