Blog, Page 68

Did not finish. The prose was overly flowery (“purple prose”), the characters felt like something out of a bad film noir, and the story didn’t seem to go anywhere...

The good

The good Interesting new universe. Fun characters. Fun alien races. Cute family feel to the crew of the spaceship. A feel-good story of love, empathy,...

No matter how bad you thought the Trump administration was, they are much, much worse. This book looks at the damage they’ve done to some of the parts of the gov...

The good Hannibal Lecter is one of the most interesting villains in all fiction. And this book focuses almost exclusively on him (unlike Red Dragon, where he’...

An amusing, hit-and-miss story of angels, demons, the antichrist, and so on. Some parts of the book work well, and are full of absurd, nonchalant, tongue-in-cheek...

This book pushes back against the idea that hyper specialization and 10,000 hours of deliberate practice at one discipline are the keys to success in the modern w...

The good This is the classic book that popularized the concept of positioning. There are a few nice insights here: Positioning exis...

The good Well written. I ready it straight through on one flight. Interesting story that spans hundreds of years across large swaths of the galaxy. Some c...

John Irving has a gift for creating unique, memorable, interesting characters and books that feel alive… But the strong religious theme in this one didn’t resonat...