Steve Gross

An explanation of today's college kids and why they are so unable to withstand the Left. Mostly common sensical with a good bunch of documented cases.

Podhoretz's writing is never easy. About 1/3 wisdom, 1/3 biography and 1/3 somewhat airy philosophizing. People who want to write should read this.

Lots of fun for diehard movie fans

Mizzen! Jib! Top'sl! Stay'sl! Focsle! Reef'sl! Gallant'sl! Expect to hear those words over and over and over. The most valuable part of this book is historical, especially California in the 1840s, a completely alien place.

Useful introduction to Quantum Computing. Author must be a professor because he tells you what he's going to say, then says it, then tells you what he said. Also spends a lot of time irrelevantly talking about himself. Who cares where he went to school or lives?

The writing is in the present tense, which sounds weird. I found this book interesting although somewhat padded.

A comprehensive history of MGM's backlot. For hard-core movie fans only.

A comprehensive view of Halakha; historically, theologically, in modern times and old. Sometimes nice and clear and sometimes fuzzy and wordy. The topic deserves an overall clearer treatment.

Excellent visuals

Another entry in the Anne Hillerman series. Very much like the other ones.

This is NOT a biography of Freud. It really covers his intellectual development for the first half of his life. The portrayal, which I suspect is accurate, is unrelentingly negative and shows Freud to have been pretty much a terrible person. He was a plagiarist, egomaniac, greedy, petty, adulterous man who created a false science. The prose is excellent; nothing fancy but clear throughout.

Somehow, this book never really came together. The author obviously worked hard but none of the characters come to life. Additionally, many dumb writing errors and often incoherent timelines.

I found no clarity in this book. Probably it's me, but many of Dreyer's sentences are confusing. Most of his reasons is “because I think so”. Which fits right in with his smug-I'm-a-liberal-so-my-political-views (left-wing, of course)-are funny-and-true-and-I-can-insert-them-into-a-book-on-grammar-if-I-want-to.
Feh! I shut the book after the fifth Trump bash, and I'm not a Trump fan.

AN Audiobook.Nothing really new here.

Awful. The writing style can only be described as “handwringingly overwrought”. Plus it's bloated at 440+ pages. I've read every book in the series but I think it's time to retire this one.

Other than the first one, this is probably the best of the series

Eisler is a solid writer and this book is on par with his Rain series, however, too much time is spent by the characters figuring out what the other characters are thinking and which we already know, which makes this book too long. Second half is definitely not as good as the first.

Fun, interesting and informative. Well worth reading if you want to learn some things about genetics.

A pretentious mishmash of code, some history and self-absorption

This is an odd book - the author is a main character and there are several real people in it. I'm not sure what is accomplished by this. The mystery is OK but nothing spectacular.

The author has a terrific blog called Talmudology, so I wanted to read his book. Alas, it is not all that clear. Plus he inserts personal details that add nothing to the story, such as how far he grew up from the hospital. The second half is somewhat better.

Could have used a couple more twists

Good thriller but the ending seemed rushed and somewhat disconnected

Michael Caine strikes me as a nice guy, but the book is kind of tedious and repetitive: “family, friends, home, garden” and “so and so became my close friend” over and over. Not much depth here and the anecdotes are not very interesting.

Smart and interesting ideas to save American Jewry. Some of them are a bit dated in 2019. The author is a truth-teller.