Steve Gross

Truth be told, there's really not much about John Colter in this book. But it's a delightful read with vivid descriptions of the life of Mountain Men.

As good as the rest of the series. Recommended.

The author should have learned about the science of radio before he tackled this.

One of the better Holmes pastiches I've read

Same as the others, although Jessica's constant emoting of her fears is growing tiresome.

Started off well but got bogged down in “who was where when” details as is common in True Crime books.

Underwhelming after all I've heard about it. Mostly about Lunar life (interesting) and politics (not so interesting).

Beware - the author doesn't explain any of the central mysteries of the book.

Noticeably better than the first one.

Four stars for the research, which was often quite impressive. Two stars for the writing (author thinks he's cute and witty by putting things in parentheses, but they are mostly irritating) and the constant repetition (Harry Price and his marvelous library) and large swathes of obvious material (the importance of practice, etc.).

Starts off interestingly, but by the end, how much Casablanca can you stand? I guess if you're a diehard fan, you'll enjoy the Bugs Bunny and Simpsons versions. I didn't.

Four stars for the deluge of facts and the broadness of the topics, two stars for the writing. Explanations are not clear and the author writes as the professor he is - often mentioning what he's going to write about and what he just wrote about.

Too much information is piled on the reader without a clear idea of where this is going. It doesn't help that the author is just this side of smarmy.

Better thriller than most of this genre.

Above average Al Queda spy story

I may have missed it, but this seems to be largely a recounting of Palestinian atrocities with not much description of what Harpoon did. Meir Dagan is someone I would like to know more about, though.

A business journalist's take on the business of drugs. Thoughtful and interesting with a lot of facts I've never heard before. Based on his understanding of the situation, the author gives a lot of prescriptive ideas for solving drug-related problems.

Your standard paranormal debunking book. However, in the introduction, the author makes two mistakes: he attacks religion and he has no skepticism about global warming. Physician, heal thyself.

Nice graphic book

For a book about writing bestsellers, it's a terribly written book. Little clarity of ideas. The graphs are laughable.

Interesting story but the author spends too much time trying to justify his “polyphonic history”.

Promises more than it delivers. Kind of sparse on symbols & puzzles. Skip it.

It amazes me that a book about the Hebrew language does not contain any Hebrew (other than photographs of manuscripts). I wanted to like this more but I never had a sense that the ideas and theories put forth had any foundation other than the author saying so.

I read this book because I like gambling and the Internet and wanted to learn what Fantasy Sports betting is all about. The author doesn't begin to describe it until halfway through the book! Lots of tedious political descriptions and the colorful gamblers are really not the colorful. The author is timid.

Pleasant muses on geography. Author needs to revise his comments on Palestinians.