Mer Barr

If you have a bit of patience and can wait for the Carnival to arrive in the book, you get to learn about the history and culture of Haiti and Jacmel, itself.

Whatever you do, don't read this while eating. Who knew cattle had so many issues? If you can get past this, the stories were enlightening and many times funny.

Not a fan of short stories but keep trying them anyway.
Some humor but several are dark.

A good reality check for me. I've been wanting to do a walking vacation in Ireland for a long time and of course I have dreamy ideas of all the greenness, but have to remember the only reason there's green is because there's rain and cloudy skies.

Although the story is not roses and sunshine I appreciated how they shared with honesty, how they adjusted to their new life and made connections with their neighbors and surrounding communities.

I wish I could think out and organize details the way the main character does, however I'm glad I'm not this obsessive. I like the rhythm and flow of the sentences, but the plot is drawn out waaay too long!

I'm not fond of depressing openings.

Lots of ‘let me educate you a bit' sidetracks from the main plot slowed down the momentum.
The mystery was nicely complex so you didn't figure it out too soon.
Lots of descriptions that can be pretty gruesome at times.

Lots of humor and not to detailed; this is a nice book for a not-so-scientific person like me.

Amazing read! The beginning can glaze the eyes with the industry-specific terms and details but it blows me away at how detailed the research can be! I'm glad I hung in there and made the effort to understand some of the references becuase I really got excited around chapter 4 with the information about water management and chapter 5 where the garden is actually described!

I had to bookmark a bunch of the graphics to refer back to and so glad there were quite a few photos and images.

The drawback is from now on, and I've already experienced this, is cringing when I see a reference to the urban legend.

I read this back in the early 80s when I was being introduced to fantasy and had not yet come across science fiction. Rereading it now, I see what I like has changed considerably and won't remain in my collection.

It has some interesting concepts around the creation of reality, and it interestingly is well ahead of its time in exploring sexual identity! However there's something about the ?maturity? of the writing that doesn't compare to the books I love to reread.

Intriguing supplement to the Walkin' Man universe. You'll finish it in 5 minutes, 10 if you stop to appreciate the words and artwork.

I haven't laughed this much in years! And once again so many geek references that folks in my line of work will understand.

A character and method of storytelling that I enjoy!

A prequel to one of the few series I've read multiple times. I would say whoever was responsible for editing the kindle edition had some issues with punctuation that had me scratching my head to figure out what was actually supposed to be there.

For someone whose not that familiar with this universe I had to do some serious pausing to connect all the dots of X-Men, Fantastic 4, Venom, and a female Star Lord, but a pleasant exercise.

The style is verging on difficult for me; tiny print, the bubbles almost not in logical order for my brain, and the ‘books' seem even shorter than other series! So glad I had access to it in a digital collection, form.

Wow! If your concentration lapsed for one moment you missed the next connection or two. So many times I kept wondering how the person they're talking about now, was related to the folks that started the whole story. I wonder if the hardback editions have a diagram [like those histories of the English kings and queens]?

I found it interesting for this being a story about the authors by the authors, that they refer to themselves in 3rd person. I would say it made it much easier to follow along audibly than if they were speaking in 1st person.

I'll be reading more of their work.

an amazing plot! and the layout and detail of the artwork has not strayed into the realm of “I can't tell where to look next for the storyline!!!” which I don't like. I'm putting that down to “my generation”.

Definitely creeped out with the visual violence.

I remember the first time I watched the movie “Deadpool”, I was seriously offended at the visual violence and cursing. It's kinda frightening after also seeing Deadpool 2 and the creepy Deadpool in the Wolverine: Origin movie how tame this collection seems.

I would say Ryan Reynolds did a great job of replicating the character I read here.

It's been years since I was in the Dresden universe so it was nice not to scratch my head over references to things I'm supposed to know about.

Ugh, sitting in the mind of someone with an insecurity issue, for chapters on end. This one goes on the donate pile.
And to make matters worse, the opening hints at an alternate universe ?clone? ?twin? and I gave up before the author ever got back to it.

Finally, a book that refers to my job and an agency I know about [BSA], life is all anti-cliimatic from here on...
More technical jargon and thankfully not as much gore as book 1.

This ?novella? was included, in its entirety, in the Recorded Books audio book I borrowed.

Somewhere between a short story and novella, it's read in one or two sittings.

Egadz! what a bait-n-switch. I thought this was to be a light comedy, which it started out as but once it had my attention, the claws-n-fangs came out! Lots of gruesomeness and alot of technical jargon that I'd hate to have to research to determine where a statement is on the fact-or-fiction meter.

I did like the characters, what humor was there, the mystery, and the pace of the story so giving this a 3.5. And I might try another in the series.

One third auto-biography, two thirds candidate speech. Nice to know what to expect from the potential VP of the USA.

I'm glad I had the physical copy so I could see the non-traditional formatting and photos; so much like the character “Sam Axe” in Burn Notice. And I'm really happy to hear that “Sam Axe” is pretty much the actor Bruce Campbell in casualness, humor, and plain speaking.

A whole lot of technical jargon but it was an eye opener as to his relationship with Sam Raimi and brought more perspective to Evil Dead, which I'd tried to watch but just couldn't; same with Evil Dead II. Now that I know a bit more, I may be able to watch Evil Dead, at least, with more compassion [I was throwing US Football yellow flags and waiving Soccer red cards right-n-left, initially].

Still not sure how to interpret the Forward done by the editor of the book...