Ryan Olson

Through most of my reading of this, I was deciding to rate this a 3. It was ok, but the dialogue and thoughts of the characters were so bad and so stereotypical. Yet once I had finished, I really enjoyed the story. I'm not sure why, but I really want to read the other books to see where this all ends up, and that warranted a higher rating.

Very disappointing follow up to Ready Player One. Story was predictable, and the nerd culture references that made RP1 so much fun, felt forced and unnecessary in this novel.

Didn't dislike the book, but I would have enjoyed it more reading them as blog posts over an extended period of time, instead if consuming them all at once.

Not a huge zombie fan, but a really cool idea, telling individual war stories. A fantastic read.

Good ideas, that just never really paid off in the end...

A different kind of fantasy novel, but I thought it was a interesting idea, and enjoyed not getting everything spelled out by the end. Lots of stuff left open ended. Really enjoyed how they treated magic usage.

Everyone isn't going to like this book, but I really liked it.

A decent read, but a really dumb prelude to the eventual ending bumped it down a star. Just felt like the payoff wasn't up to the rest of the story...

Too short, too predictable.

The Left for Dead story was good, the Team Fortress stuff was pretty bad, and the Portal 2 story was too short.

An interesting old fashioned sci-fi novel, that really suffered once they get to Mars. Sadly that was 3/4 of the novel.

It also could have used some proofreading . I know they scanned it in, but a simple read through should have corrected many of the errors. I get that a few mistakes might get through, but numbers in the middle of a word indicates that little to no editing was done. Hopefully their future novels will be more properly finished.

Interesting start turned into a completely different, and rather silly, story in the end.

It felt like they had a good idea, had no clue what to do with it, so they just kind of added sex and made a completely ridiculous story with that idea...

Nice space opera type sci-fi novel. Dragged a little at the end, but I really enjoyed the 2 different character perspectives.

I look forward to reading the 2nd novel.

Oh, and the Kindle version tricked me, it had one of the co-authors fantasy novels attached too, so I was much closer to finishing the book than my percentage was showing :).

I can see why people might think this is an amazing graphic novel, but I just didn't get it...

I have read very little of the “cosmic” Marvel stuff, the Silver Surfer and things like that...

This probably wasn't an ideal introduction to them :).

While I didn't understand some of the references, this book was still a good read. I laughed out loud a couple of times in the Nova miniseries bits, and would like to get my hands on the rest of the series.

A fantastic fantasy novel.

I have to admit, I'm not sure I saw much ground broken here, and it used many typical fantasy tropes, but on the other hand, it was very well written, and seemed to have an interesting history, without being overwhelming. Many fantasy novels tend to have long history sections that nearly put me to sleep, but this story did not do that.

The characters were fun and felt like they had many layers to them. It seemed like they agonized over every difficult decision in a way that did not seem forced, but felt very real.

My only complaint has nothing to do with the story itself, but the fact that I had to go out and buy a physical copy of the novel :). There is no US Kindle version, and my local library did not have a copy. I hope to donate my copy to them, so others can find this wonderful book.

Wow. Incredible comic. This was the first 6 issues, and I am blown away. The story was great, but it left way more questions than answers, which is ideal in a series anyways.

The art is amazing too. A phenomenal start to this series, and now I have to go get the rest of them...

A decent start to a series. An interesting experiment in semi-historical fantasy, being released online. This is the first of these stories published in novel form..

I enjoy Stephenson, but didn't really get any feel for which parts he may have written, but it was a good fantasy book, just not spectacular...

I had trouble getting into this book, but once I did, I enjoyed it quite a bit.I has the characters telling their backstories, and it does a good job of using different narratives, so the stories feel like they are being told by different people. I did enjoy some stories more than others, but that's ok.One major complaint, this book and its sequel, [b:The Fall of Hyperion 77565 The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1329610795s/77565.jpg 1882596], were written as 1 book basically, so the first book ends at a very bad place if you aren't planning to jump right into the 2nd book...

Dr. Dinosaur is possibly the funniest super villain out there. I laughed outloud several times in that issue...

This book is dark. Very very dark. But an interesting read. It's not a fun book in any way, but it is a really well written, interesting book.

A good issue. A few fantastic stories, snd a couple average ones, but nothing that I disliked.

My awesome cousin got me a copy of issue #1, personally autographed by Bill Willingham himself (or I beleive that's the autograph, these things are so hard to read sometimes...).

Can't wait to read this, I love the Fables series...

Sort of a more realistic, darker, Harry Potter. A good read, but it fell a little short of great to me. Having a difficult time putting my finger on why though, just didn't quite hit me in the right spots I guess. Will add more to this as my thoughts get more together about the novel :).

I enjoy Mur Lafferty's stories. While I haven't read much of it yet, I have listened to her Podcasted novels, and to her readings and occasional stories, on Escape Pod.

This story was enjoyable. I felt like the ending was way to predictable, but some of the ideas getting to that point were good.

Not much better than ok. It is really short, so it has that going for it, it doesn't overstay it's welcome, but it seemed fairly predictable and not very original...