Kent archie

Great adventure and mystery. It holds up pretty well since the late 1940's.

An excellent adventure. 10 year old me found the plane crash scene to be very scary.
The tech was pretty advanced for the time, The book was written in 1952, just 4-5 years after the invention of the transistor at Bell Labs.
Most of the tech would be still relevant as it is similar to UAVs today.

Great fun. An exciting story and excellent artwork.
Highly recommended.

Wow, there is a lot in this book. I haven't read the versions for ST:TOS seasons 1 and 2 yet.
I learned a lot about the hard, sometimes tedious work of TV production.
And my view of some of the people involved in the show has changed a little.
I recommend that you read a chapter of this book about an episode and then watch the episode.
I didn't do that but I think that would make the book more fun.

It had a good mix of short comics about science principles and observations.
I was a funder of it and it was well worth the investment

A pretty exciting adventure but with some mildly racist overtones.
At one point, while a an archeologist is describing the accomplishments of the indigenous people, Scotty says, “you almost talk as if they were civilized”

The sciency thing is a souped up metal detector. If these were updated, it would probably use ground penetrating radar or something.

This is a very quick read, part 3 of a multi-book series.
It wasn't hard to figure out what was happening even though I didn't read the first 2 books.
There is a group of pilots going though the same process as the Mercury astronauts only much quicker.
I don't know why that is.
Anyway, if you're about 10 years old or remember being 10, this was kind of fun.

This is the fourth book in the series and the story so far is summarized for a reporter who discovers the top secret program.
Perhaps this was discussed in the first two books which I haven't read.
And it's kind of disturbing.
This group of 7 is being rushed through the space program (in this book it's the first orbital flight)
to get ahead of the Soviets.
They are expressly considered expendable and the launches are rushed and probably more dangerous
than the official program.
This seems kind of dark for the target audience of (what are now called) tweens.
Since it seems these books mostly parallel the actual space program, I doubt I'm going to read any more of them.
Can anybody tell me something different happens, like First Contact or the development of warp drive or something?

This could be used almost unchanged.
Maybe require Jan to take a real SCUBA course
Also, there is current research that uses magnets to alter
brain activity, so the basic weapon would still be pausible.
An exciting story, a little scary.
Also Jan Miller is introduced and is a welcome addition.

Excellent book. Lots of description and details about various space stations.
I learned/relearned a lot about the Russian/Soviet Mir and Salyut stations.
Recommended if you are a space fan.

Excellent book. Enormously detailed. I learned a lot about the history of paleontology in the US, UK and Mongolia, Mongolian history, politics and customs, laws governing fossils and that if you sink a cypress log in a river for 100 years it becomes very valuable.
There are stories of a bunch of interesting people on several continents.
All this and more from a story that was at it's essence just about a guy arrested for smuggling a dinosaur fossil.

I mostly liked the plot. but some of the writing style was annoying.
Frequently I had trouble determining who was attached to pronouns.
He would have two men talking and then a couple paragraphs later, say something like
“he stared at the paper” and I couldn't figure out who “he” referred to.
He also uses italics to indicate someones thoughts and I often had trouble figuring out
whose thoughts were being displayed.
Plot issues
In the beginning of the book we find that the super powerfulsecret evil organization arranges (using threats against people and everybody they know)for the Titanic to pause briefly part way though its journey and wait for 15 minutes.Meanwhile, a hit squad was on a nearby US Navy ship.The squad was supposed to murder Astor and another guy for some reason related to the US Federal Reserve system.This never comes up again and if they wanted these two dead it would have been much easier to kill them in New York.There is also this bit about employees quitting the organization and signing a letter that is supposed to force the next two generations to do whatever the organization wants.This is silly, especially as whenever the organization requests some one to do something, they are threatened with the death of every one they know if they refuse or fail.
It was a quick read and fairly exciting but I don't think I'll read any others any time soon.

Excellent mystery and very exciting.
Its been so long since I read this that almost nothing except Rick being in the rocket at launch seemed familiar. It was like reading the book for the first time.
The bad guys were surprising and much more complex than most of these books.

Very creepy and gruesome, as befits a zombie book.If you liked [b:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 8908 World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War Max Brooks https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1528312647l/8908.SX50.jpg 817], (which I did)then you should find this interesting.It's a pretty clinical presentation of how pathogens could produce zombies.It was written in 2012 and it is even creepier to read now during the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic.

This is an interesting subject, especially since I grew up in Northern Wisconsin where much of the work described was done.
The writing is kind of clumsy and that is distracting.
The main subject of the book is the use of plywood in aircraft and after reading it I still am not sure how sheets of wood are removed from a log or how plywood is shaped into curved aircraft sections.
I had no idea how much wood went into shipping things to the front and that you could build aircraft from plywood.
The authors grandfather ran a company that made plywood for use in the British Mosquito bomber.
This became important to the book when she wrote a letter to a German company that provided some equipment they used to ask about any records they had about her grandfathers visit to Germany in the late 1930's.
They said they couldn't because airplanes built with plywood her grandfather had made using the German equipment and destroyed their archives during the war.

I didn't like Hamish at the beginning, he was a whiny jerk.
But he got more likeable as the story went on.
It was a decent mystery with a reasonable resolution but I don't think you could figure it out
until the characters explained it to you.
I read this because my mother-in-law is a fan and I thought I'd try it.
I don't read many mysteries but it was a quick pleasant read.

Way too dark. I was expecting the character to be more like the one in the SpiderVerse movie but there was little resemblance.

This is a pretty straight forward mystery.
It was nice to see Jan and Barbie involved although they didn't contribute enough to the solution.
The science/engineering stuff was weaker than most of the books, but there was some good geology.
The foxhole radio they make was pretty cool to read about in the 1960s but now, I mostly wondered where somebody would get rusty razor blades.

At the end, when the bad guy is confessing, I couldn't help thinking he was going to say
“And I would have gotten away with
it if it hadn't of been for you meddling kids!”

I don't recommend these books.
They are terribly violent and gleefully violent as well.
A high ranking Police official says to the “hero”,
“You're needed, too, Dick,” he said quietly. “Don't forget that this is only the beginning of the battle. As usual, I'll be hampered by the confounded laws. We ought to take this Devil Hackerson and torture the truth out of him.”
The plot, involving destroying things to increase the value of the bad guys stocks, is both horrifying and current.
The descriptions of the catastrophes are intense, taking me back to 9/11.
If you want to read some old timey pulp stories, stick to Doc Savage.

Not much to say about these books. If you liked the TV show and can tolerate the mild sexism and racism, you'll enjoy these. I have another 7 to read and I think my review will be the same for them all.

I can only read one or two of these a year. I like the adventure and the outrageous plots
but the misogyny and racism, while not excessive, are annoying.
Women are instantly and desperately attracted to Doc and generally are decorative to the plots.
And any culture that isn't white America is described as lessor.

The writing style is irritating as well.
In this book, rain is described as , “drooling”, “leaking”, and “sobbing”.
Doc likes to ride on the outside of cars and is said to not get wet when it rains.
He also can't get sunburned either.
He (and one or more of his team) are familiar and often fluent in all human languages.

He uses sonar and underwater breathing gear. I later found out that at the time these were written, a form of sonar did exist.
And people had been using underwater breathing gear at least as far back as Jules Verne, so its use here is not surprising.

But the bad guys have a weapon that is clearly a magnetic rail gun and I haven't heard of that tech either existing or used in previous SF&F works.

So, if you like this sort of thing, then this is the sort of thing you will like (Thanks, Don Thompson).

Pretty good mystery, maybe a little too complicated.
It would have to be updated to reflect changes in the politics
of the region.
There is a little more than the usual amount of fist fights and
a bunch of gun fights as well.
Perhaps the mystery radio source could make this book part of the Rendezvous With Rama
books by Arthur Clarke.

The stakes are higher in this book than in most of the TV episodes.
I was a big fan of this show as a kid and picked up a bunch of the books over time.
This one was pretty exciting and kept to the style and themes of the show pretty well.

There was one plot point where the bad guys had to get Kuryakin and Solo to call Waverly to assure them all was well or their plan would be disrupted.
And then the author forgot about it as this never happened.

In the final scenes, our heroes are rushing away from a disaster resulting from their thwarting the bad guys when they have to jump from a speeding car just before it explodes.
And that's where the book ends, just after the explosion.
No wrap up, no Solo going off with the woman, not even an explanation of how they
survived the disaster.

I had acquired two copies of this book and checked the other in case some pages were missing.
But no, that was how the book ended.
It's as if the publisher said the book could only 159 pages and just threw away any pages after that.
So, if you're a fan of the TV show, you might enjoy this.

If you only saw the recent movie, then none of the books or the TV show will make any sense
as the movie is about two characters who coincidentally have the same names as the characters in the TV show. Other than the names, the movie is completely unrelated to the TV show.

Amusing little mysteries solved by a super-genius.
The kind of guy who listens to a description of the crime, asks one seemingly ridiculous question, like “Did the victim own a green tie with red stripes?” and after getting the answer announces the name of the perpetrator.
Short, kind of fun stories. These were written in the early 1900s. The version I had has some serious formatting issues. There would be weird jumps in the text and then the missing paragraph would appear a couple of chapters later.

I read this just after seeing the new Netflix movie.
The movie and the book are pretty much the same up to when Enola is being sent to boarding school
and then the plots diverge. A lot.

Both are pleasant and fun stories, but I preferred the movie.