Sarah

This is such a unique, AMAZING book.

I think this is my favorite decluttering book.

I definitely can't be bothered with the rest of this series.

Excellent first novel! Actually just excellent novel period. And Ferrett is a super awesome person. But that's not why you just read this. You should read it because he's written a book about interesting, flawed people and an unusual magic system that's not quite like any other book I've read.

Good book just not totally for me.

This was fabulous. It's a middle grade level hitchhiker's guide crossed with Terry Pratchett footnotes crossed with the demons of Hell crossed with particle physics and the LHC at CERN. Absolutely brilliant.

This was hilarious! What a pleasure to read Jim Hines going MST3000 on his first novel. The snark is awesome and I actually think that folks who want to write would benefit from Jim's examples of bad writing.

Really 3.5. Some (most?) of the book was top notch but there was one really meh part. Very interesting other than that section though.

Wonderful collection of classic Vance works. It was my first exposure to him and I'll be tracking more down.

I really like this series. Although it's billed as YA and it would be totally appropriate for that age range, I actually think that adults might enjoy it more due to the references tucked away in the narration (as is typical for Fforde).

Absolutely loved this. It's got amazing engineering, Scotland, interesting stuff from the literary Stevenson (who did NOT want to build lighthouses), cool bits about lens improvements etc. Unbelievable that anything could be built on those bits of rock and even more so when you consider the level of technology available to them.

John Hodgman (unsurprisingly) was an amazing narrator for this book. I'll agree with everything I've read about his being a precursor to Douglas Adams even though Adams had never read Sheckley prior to HHGTTG publication. Great stuff.

Loved this! I really want a 4.5 star, no a 6 star scale. There's definitely two tiers of I loved this and will read again books that don't make the “run around squeeing” 5 star category.

So, on a 6 star scale this is a 5 star book and I really hope Seanan plays more in this universe.

Need to back up to read the first two now!

I get why people like this book but I might have liked it better if I had first read it when I was younger. It still gets 3 stars because of the awesome range of fiction/literature it draws from. It only gets 3 stars because I couldn't stand the protagonist.

Meh. Least favorite Nix book with the exception of “Ragwitch” so far. It was ok. But I'm accustomed to much more than ok from Nix. Ah well. Can't love ‘em all.

I really liked this. It was a neat way to look at different types of rocks and I'll be looking at old buildings in a different way now (not that I'll be able to identify anything but it will be fun to pretend that I can).

Well I tore through that like there was no tomorrow. It's good. I need to read it again more slowly. I think I may need the audio version (which Neil as usual for his work narrates himself). It reminds me a bit of “Coraline” in that the protagonist is a child and that there's more than a touch of horror in the magic. It's almost a YA that's way too scary for YA. It's not my new favorite Gaiman but the more I read, the more it grew on me. I'll be back to this one for sure.

Update: I liked it even more as an audiobook. Neil's narration as usual was great. I felt that I got a lot more out it at the slower pace that audiobooks keep me at.

Absolutely loved this book and am delighted to realize that it's a) book 1 and b) there are two more to go read. I've yet to meet a Wrede book I didn't like and this one lives up to its predecessors.

Reminded me of Bryson's “At Home” albeit with a narrower focus.

Everyone should read this book. Now I understand why it's recommended so often.

According to my records here, I've listened to this 4 times since 2009. It's still awesome and I think everyone should read it. It's both fascinating and I think useful although I hope to never have to utilize any of the usefulness.

It's almost painful to give this book 3 stars. It's THE LAST DISCWORLD BOOK EVER. And I liked it, and it finished off the Tiffany Aching series nicely but it's just not as good as earlier Pratchett (much like “Raising Steam”). Lots of cameo moments and attempts to tie up loose ends but the the level of prose just isn't there. But still 3 stars for Pratchett is probably 4 for almost anyone else!

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett

I love Jenny so much.

Meh. Good enough to finish, not good enough to read the rest of the series.