Kent archie

This keeps up the style and fun of the other Twins books.
But there is a little too much gruesome (and casual) murder in it.
It seems that Beckett is rather different from the previous books, becoming smarter
and more Artemis like.
I enjoyed it and if you are an Artemis Universe fan, you'll like this.

I find these books increasingly anoying.
Most of the woman characters and all the child characters are put into great harm or great danger
mostly so the men can feel scared or be determined.
Two groups are chasing the McGuffin and the one abusing the women and children is
not related to the main gang. The AI technology in here is essentially magic.
Anyways, it was OK but I'm not excited to read the next one.

A little dated, I suppose.
But I enjoyed it.

If you liked the others you will probably like this.
I think these stories work better when they are a little shorter.
I was losing track of who was were and the relationships between people and organizations.

I like reading these because of the view of the future as seen from the past.
But Tom in these early books has two servants.
One is a giant that is not very bright and refers to Tom as Master.
The other is an elderly ex-enslaved person who refers to Tom as Massa.
Neither of them speak standard English.
So I can only tolerate 1 or two of these a year.

It's amusing that Tom creates a new powerful explosive that he transports by train and ship without
feeling the need to tell anybody they are transporting it.
Also on a high speed train, it takes a week to get across the US.

This was an exciting adventure with a non-science mystery.
But it involve science/engineering issues.
It includes saturation diving and cryogenic scuba.
The latter was pretty cutting edge at the time and probably wasn't used for helium/oxygen
mixture as liquid helium is really cold.
I liked the references to other books, they were very appropriate given the mystery.
I looked up Peter Gimbel and it's possible that the movie about sharks that Rick mentions
is “Blue Water White Death”.

Not one of my favorites.
There is no science element to this other than references to the Rocket Belt.
It was also darker and more violent than I like in this sort of book.
An anachronism was
at hotel Regina in Amsterdam, clerk checks keyboard. Not a typewriter but a board where room keys are hung.

One of my favorites. I always wanted a rocket pack like Rick. I did a little
work trying to design a rocket that used hydrogen peroxide but it's really dangerous and not as easy to get as the book suggests. At least not when you're in junior high.
The forest fire scene is very exciting and I get nervous reading it even though I knew how it came out.

Many interesting stories about Wisconsin. I grew up there and attended college there and while I was exiled to Illinois, I still consider myself a cheesehead.
A number of these were new to me.
Highly recommended.

I probably would have liked this better when I was 10.
Danny, even when he tries to do better, usually does the dumbest possible thing.
But I think 10 year old me might have thought they were good ideas as well.
Didn't care for the constant concern that any indigenous peoples (or “natives”) they encountered would be cannibals.
You should probably skip this one.
Also, Grimes is a jerk.

I sort of recall reading one of the novels in the Ministry Of Peculiar Occurrences series.
And yet I really enjoyed this book.
The stories are set all over the world and vary from funny to scary.
If you haven't read any of the books, just look up steampunk on Wikipedia and read the cover blurb of one of the novels and you'll be all set.

Interesting complete story. It appears there were/are planned for more stories with these characters
and perhaps I'll look for those.

I liked the way it was written and I learned a lot about the long duration mission Scott worked on.
He overcame great problems to accomplish a lot.
I plan to read his brothers book and see how it overlaps.
A quote I liked:
“I've learned that most problems are aren't rocket science, but when they are rocket science, you should ask a rocket scientist.”

The story gets more involved, lot's of travel and whose Megan?

Intriguing story, nice art. I wanted to read some more after the first book

The team up between UNCLE and THRUSH and the discussions of the organizations
origins and philosophies are more interesting than the actual plot.

I read a bunch of these as a kid but I don't think I read this one.
For books aimed at 8 year olds, the time traveling parts are a little complicated.
A character gets duplicated because a past version meets a future version.
There is also discussion of alternate timelines.
The kids learn a little history and electricity by meeting a famous person in the past.
These are fun short adventures long out of print.
But you can sometimes find them in used bookstore or shops.
And it's possible there are digital copies out somewhere on the web.

This was written before people had gone into space.
Venus and Mars are inhabitable , where Venus has swamps and dinosaurs.
And you'd be a space brained space rat if you traveled at full space speed in the space lanes.
And even though its set 400 years in the future, there are no women in space.

A really interesting book. When I read SF, I'm looking for big ideas and action, not so much character development and relationship subtleties. So this was right up my alley.
Long detailed discussions on relativistic physics and exobiology.
Plenty of action.
The politics of US and China relationships are kind of dated since the book was written in the late 1970s.
I also think it was a bit long.
So I recommend it.

Fascinating book. You could make a half dozen movies out of her life and adventures during WW2.
But nobody would believe they were true.

A true hero of the Allies that I had never heard of.

The plot was decently interesting and set in pre-statehood Alaska, which was interesting.
I've read another of these books and they seem to be more respectful of indigenous people
than other kids books from this era.
That doesn't mean there weren't any cringy moments but it tried harder.
AS a result of the sked race mentioned here, I read a summary of the history
of Skagway and that was also interesting.

I was mostly interested in the findings on Mars, that was what attracted me to the book.
While the battle scenes were exciting, they read too much like a Marines recruiting video.
I also didn't see what the Japanese scenes were for.
It also seemed unbelievable that Canada and Mexico would start a militaryconflict with the US and if they did, they wouldn't start with civilian targets.
The archeological discoveries on Mars were interesting and fun.
I have heard about most of these either on Ancient Aliens on the misnamed History Channel
or on Coast To Coast AM where everything is true.
This is a multi book series but I'm not very interested in reading the rest.

I think 10 year old me would have liked this better than current me.
The super science used to make earthquake machines and containers for brain energy
were just a little too much for me.

I had heard some of the stories about the stealthy ways Disney bought land in Florida.
But there were many more in this book.
If you are interested in Disney history, read this book.

In this book, the Iranians varied from standard bad guys to evil incarnate.
That was pretty annoying. The super soldier part was unexpected.
So overall, didn't really like it and won't read any others