Steve Gross

Almost all the characters are unpleasant.

Long & Dreary. And Nora is a total pill.

Fast moving but more and more unbelievable

Slow, Swedish and Somewhat Sick

A powerful introduction to the world of Daf Yomi. My only minor complaint is that the author starts off as very private, but I was crying TMI by the end.

This entire book could be reduced to half a page of instruction. The author thinks he is really charming and cutesy - quite annoyingly so. Also, completely gratuitous use of profanity.

Lovely book, part travelogue, part meditation on place

A “What If” for the Oak Island story. OK for what it is, but the ending really makes no sense.

Heilman's writing is dull. His credibility is also greatly diminished by his last book about the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Three interesting facts about these Hasidic Rebbes jump out at me:
1) Their supremely hypocritical way of saving themselves at Israel's expense when they denounce the Zionist enterprise both before and after
2) How often they fail to produce a son/heir or any children at all
3) the lust for power and the cynical maneuvering to get there

The authors fly all over America to see the real country. Interesting, if somewhat repetitive. The lefty biases of the authors show through; in all their travels to see the real America, they never once attend a church service. Also, for some reason, they think the reader is interested in their sporadic reminisces of China?

Not easy reading but a fascinating and deep analysis of the value of education, strongly buttressed by fact.

The best Sherlock Holmes pastiche I have read.

solid and straightforward, but not much insight into either man.

I don't think the author is a very good explainer.

Almost all of this book is recycled material from other books, with the great exception of Stanley and FACS. Might be time to pack in the series.

More of a vintage Cole than recent books. Too much hugging at the end.

Good of its kind but only goes through season 3

Many similar elements to the Rachel Gold stories, but a shade darker.

Fun but very legalish

Good but the mystery isn't very mysterious

The best word to describe this book is “unpleasant”. Bosch is an unpleasant man. He lies to everyone. He doesn't answer. There's nothing special about him. The other characters are mostly unpleasant people. I don't get the appeal of this series.

Fun. Rachel Gold makes a half-page appearance.

Weird, florid writing. Cardboard characters with one of them being downright racist. Alex Hawke has nothing interesting about him.

Too discursive and prolix. Would have been quite helpful to have some engineering diagrams.

As good as any in the series