Picked it up when I heard that a TV series is in the works. It's an entertaining twist on modernized mythology, but it's nothing like Percy Jackson.
Really fun, quick read.
It also reminded me that even 80s geeks can have wildly different expertise in different sub-genres...
One of the first puzzles to get solved was something about Dungeons and Dragons that felt so esoteric to me that I almost lost interest in the book, thinking “These are not the 1980s references you were looking for.”
Later, I was rewarded with a clue that should have been so obvious to anyone who played text adventures. But, bafflingly, the clue was so challenging to the general population of players in the book that this puzzle went unsolved by any character for a significant length of time in the book.
Must-read Holocaust literature. I finally picked it up shortly after Elie Wiesel's death. I regret not reading it when I was younger.
Start with the author's TED talk. If you like her style and message, you'll enjoy more of the same in her book, plus some field research, like her entertaining observations participating in a Tony Robbins seminar.
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