Kent archie

I've already forgotten what happens in this book. I thought the first one was moderately clever and this was more of the same

Maybe a little long, but well thought out and exciting.
The space activities and the alternate history felt very real.
Reccomended

Learned a lot about the development and use of the lunar rovers during the last few Apollo missions.

I rather enjoyed this although it was a little slow moving.
It was fun seeing the D&D versions of modern equipment.
At times it reminded me of Terry Pratchett.
It;s a relaxing book and I recommend it.

I was hoping for an interesting mostly hard science fiction book.
But the new technology, magneto hydrodynamic power didn't ring true.
I either missed or they didn't explain how it magically burned high sulfur coal and produced no CO2 or SO2.
But what did me in was that the hero of the story was interested in two women. His relationship was mostly about whether they would have sex with him or if they had had sex with the other men in the story and so on.
This managed to make both him and the two women too boring to continue.

Loved the foxes. It was a little confusing how we got to the house but overall, an enjoyable Rivers story. I had to look up a lot of slang but that is part of the fun.

One of my favorites of the UNCLE books, partly because of the plot and partly because it was set in Wisconsin, where I am from. The author had a lot of details about places and roads but that could be gotten from a map
The stuff about the margarine problem requires a deeper knowledge of Wisconsin in the 1970s

As a software engineer, Babbage and Lovelace have a special place in my heart, so i especially enjoyed this book.
There is a (annoying) style in TV shows to show a car chase, lots of shooting and then the car gets stopped and the police surround the evil driver, only for us to be surprised that it is the hero of the show.
Then the next scene starts with a text that says something like 12 hours earlier.
This book did that a couple times and I hope Mister Aaronovitch is done with that.

Pretty complicated plot. After I read about 1/4 of the book, it started to sound familiar. A look in Good reads showed me I had read this 3 years ago. Pretty exciting magic fights.

A lot of amazing stories. Some funny or exciting, some sad and tragic.
There is a story of the theft of a train and two movies were made from this event.
A white woman disguised herself as a black women to spy on the south.
A man was shamed into fighting for the South, got captured, changed sides and went on to be very famous for a 4 word question.

There are a lot of interesting projects in this book. While the parts needed are easy to acquire, you likely don't have craft sticks and a glue gun around. At least I don't. But I do have a lot of K'nex pieces so I could build most of the designs using those.

A good stand alone book in the rivers of London series. It took me a while to realize that not only does the book take place in Germany, but the narrator is a German version of Peter Grant. A fun and exciting story and a nice break from the Faceless Man

A lot of detail aboit the earl days of the Lego Group.
I had no idea there were so many sets made over time.
Sometimes it seemed the author didn't have access to enough photos. We would see pages of pictures of the sets as well as descriptions and then it would suddenly turn to text only.

Pretty good UNCLE book. I thing I missed the explanation of why the dam was built. It made references to other UNCLE books, including citations.

I read this mostly because it was a kind of big deal long ago. There were 3 major military battles in this and I couldn't understand 2 of them.
So it was OK but I am not inclined to read others.

Pretty good but I felt like I was supposed to have read something else first

This was a great history of the Saturn 5. Lots of details on the organizations, processes, problems and solutions.
Even better, as this is a NASA funded project, it can be found for free in the NASA archives as a PDF.

Parts of it were funny but most was kind of mean.

On the who;e it was OK. The first part where they explain how they got a computer that knew everything and how it could re-create any historical even was pretty interesting.
But the middle part where two of the characters go missing and the third basically gets trained to be Batman was kind of disconnected from the rest.

There is a comic book in the Marvel universe about the company that comes in and cleans up or repairs the damage caused by superbeing fights. This continues that idea ( the book is not set in the Marvel or DC universes) added in the stories of the people that do the office work and other non-super work for the super villains.
A number of interesting ideas are presented in the book like superhero retirement homes ( imagine the Human Torch getting old and suffering from dementia) and what happens to the bystanders who get hurt when The Hulk smashes buildings.
If you are a comic or superhero movie fan, you will probably find this interesting.
While there are some funny bits, this gets pretty dark at times.

I generally like this class of books. There is an ancient mystery that has to be solved at great peril.
But I couldn't really follow how the site they found is related to the Biblical Eden. Kind of like the DaVinci Code, the church has a secret that must be kept hidden from all humanity forever.
But instead of just destroying all the evidence and clues, they try to make them hard to follow.
Security through obscurity is never a wise plan.
There is a monster in this book that I found completely unbelievable.

It's been a long time since I read some Doonesbury and it was fun to get reminded of people an events
of when I was in college.

Two teenage boys are going to spend the summer working on ore boat in the Great Lakes.
Sandy is often described as being the best there is. They have many life threatening disasters, It would be hard to update this because several of the disasters would be prevented with modern communication and navigation tools. So it's OK but I wouldn't recommend putting much work in finding it.

I enjoyed this more than the first one. The writing was less flamboyant.
And I was genuinely interested in what the alien culture and technology would be like.
It ended a little abruptly but it's worth reading.

I read a series of essays about what Victorian science fiction books would have won the Hugo award, had it been handed out in those days.
This book was on of those mentioned.
It's SF only in that the first section discusses at great length what kinds of plants and animals would thrive in London many, many years after civilization had collapsed.
The rest of the book is a kind of dull Medieval adventure story.
So I can't recommend it.