Steve Gross

ANother enjoyable entry to the series. Softcore porn is still bizarre, though.

Engrossing and well-written true crime story

It feels like the author read 5 or 10 books on Jewish gangsters and pasted in the Bugsy Siegel stuff. And where was the editor? No names were changed at Ellis Island. Lansky had a boy and a girl, not two boys. He says Benny was named Nick and then never repeats that. Dov is Hebrew for bear and has no relationship to Benjamin.

Good but too long. And the interactions between Ben and the various ladies is bizarre.

Good explanation of the settings of Bond books and movies in the larger world

Nice coffee table book

A solid biography

This book is a Malcolm Gladwellish set of chapters surrounding the mystery of mystery. It started off great but then sadly became increasingly sludge-like. I would love to know what “Pythagoras's Constant” is (p. 203) or why the author thought it important to repeat the mechanic's profanities.

Solid background on the political, social world of Agatha Christie. A lot of the British political history made this American's eye glaze over.

What a monstrous ego this man has. Some interesting stuff but the self-inflation gets in the way.

Fun if you're Jewish

This is not a conventional biography; rather, it is a protracted essay that tries to answer the question: “Why was Fred Astaire so great?” Epstein is the best essayist I know. However, it is too long for what he wanted to accomplish.

I read the first two books in the series and now mistakenly the last. This book was ugly in every way - Rapp was a horrible character, the language was ugly, the torture was ugly, the situations were ugly. I'm done with this series.

The space stuff was cool, but the things you are asked to believe are just too unbelievable

I'm a huge Thomas Sowell fan and a general Jason Riley fan, but this is not a well-written book. It's repetitive (Sowell is an iconoclast, Sowell doesn't care what anyone thinks, Sowell on race, etc) and unfocused. I learned things, but overall a disappointment.

Better than the previous Child brothers collaboration, but the ending made no sense.
Reacher talks a lot less, but. there. were. too. many. short. sentences.

interesting focus on the classical backgrounds of the Founders. Wanders a bit and sometimes doesn't do a good job of explaining the basics. My greatest concern was the author dumping on Trump in the Introduction (and Afterword), exposing his left-wing bias, all of which was completely unnecessary to his points.
Also, I suspect he ignored the influence of the Bible, particularly the Hebrew bible, on the Founder's thoughts.

good but standard except for the ending, which takes place with all the characters, which is ridiculous. Delilah and Livia are total pills and I am not interested in reading further about them.

A very sweet story, even with murder. The author says it best in his afterword: there is a sense of kindness and justice throughout.

My first (and last) foray into Nordic Noir. the detective is a semi-alcoholic, semi-divorced, semi-obsessed fellow with no real interesting qualities. the setting is uniformly bleak with long, unpronounceable names. Pass the Agatha Christie, please.

It's hard to distinguish between my view of Stoicism and the book itself. The writing is generally good although a little repetitive. I found the imagined conversations with Epictetus to be both jarring and creepy. I was very off-put by the Stoic denial of Evil. As for the author's belief in Evolution, look up two things: Cambrian Explosion and Protein Folding.

Goofy, fun and readable book. The standard liberal potshots are already not aging well. BTW, AJ is my former step-step-brother-in-law.

Thought this was going to be a biography with some science in it; turned out to be a hagiography that ran all over the place. I don't understand why the author kept inserting himself into the story.

A nicely written book in the COrk O'Connor series (#0!) which is a mystery, a history and sociology of Ojibwe and mostly a coming of age story.

Dense and tedious. I appreciate the amount of research the author must have done, but sometimes, less is more. Too many characters. The writing is often awkward. Coolidge does not come across as an interesting or sympathetic person.