John M. Wargo

Ok book, a little rough around the edges from a writing standpoint. The movie based on this book is very different from the book. Some similarities, but also very different.

The books are shifting to a huge time-wasting theme: The CIA's battles against the Government's CIA haters. I'm getting tired of all of the time he spends on that topic instead of letting Mitch kick ass and take names. The series is slowing down for me and I'm not enjoying the books as much. Besides, what ever happened to Signe?

Ok, it got better, but this was not a good one

Really good and a great story.

Fantastic engaging book. Loved it. Can't wait to read more.

I've known Steven for decades and was aware of some of these stories, but it was fun to read the fill details. He does a masterful job blending personal history, business acumen, and personal growth into a colorful story.

I had to abandon it. I was about 200 pages into the second volume and still didn't know what's going on. So many unanswered questions this late in a book series. Way, way too complicated. Unnecessary cross gender pairings and gender fluidity that distract from the story. Just a long, complicated story that I'm just not willing to invest more time in. It has such promise, but just didn't go anywhere.

Excellent story, very well crafted. I did not realize this was a book two in a series, so now I have to go read book one.

Excellent book, really enjoyed it. Such a tragedy.

Excellent book. I watched the Andromeda Strain movie when I was a child. I love Wilson's work, so I read both books. This is much more action packed and suspenseful with some cool and interesting twists. Just like what I expected from Wilson.

I read Smart Brevity and gave it 5 stars, so the publisher offered me a copy of one of the author's latest book. I'm a writer and avid reader, so the Smart Brevity approach resonated with me with it's quick hit then move on approach to writing.

Just the Good Stuff: No-BS Secrets to Success is essentially a self-help book and a memoir wrapped up together while written in the Smart brevity style. The author writes about his extreme failures in life and the things he did to recover from them and that's when it switches from a memoir to a self-help book.

Fortunately, unlike other self-help books that spend most of their pages repeatedly telling you why the book is the best book to help you, the Author points out a point of failure in his life then explains with a quick introduction, why it matters, and a bulleted list of strategies, how he resolved the issue. You learn a lot about him and important people in his life plus how those people steered him in the right direction, modeled the right behavior, or picked him up and shook him until he straightened up.

The book's broken up into multiple sections: Life Stuff, Work Stuff, Boss Stuff, Tough Stuff, Small Stuff, and, finally, Good Stuff. A lot of the life stuff applies to children, people just getting started in life and I wish I could get my children (and my stupid nephew) to read that section because there's a lot of excellent advise in there.

The middle sections are all related to careers and work; I'm a little (OK, a lot) too old for that, but if I was starting my career or in the middle of it (I'm not) this would be an excellent guide for how to deal with a lot of the BS you'll encounter.

There's 70 vignettes in there many are amazing and thought provoking, a good selection are good, and there's a few (like the one about his cousins) where I just couldn't see the value of. Regardless, it's an excellent read and could really help you sort out parts of your life.

Excellent book, very well written. Great stories about motorcycling across the US and Europe peppered with fun stories about the band and xonci.

Loved it, excellent book. Quick read and very interesting. Now I have to watch the movie again, I haven't seen it since I watched it as a youngster

Loved it loved it loved it. An amazing and heart wrenching personal story couples with an insiders view of the history of artificial intelligence. Absolutely amazing

I absolutely loved this book. So detailed, so well written. Excellent, engaging story with some excellent twists.

A little disjointed and disorganized. Enjoyed his stories about being in England and so on. Surprised by the depth of his musical interests.

Meh.

lots and lots of typos and errors.

Poorly produced manuscript. A good story but a trifle long winded in places. I assume there will be more books and I'm looking forward to reading them. I hope they spend more effort on quality.

I wasn't sure what to expect

But this book was awesome. I couldn't put it down. I can't wait to see what happens next. Soon, soon...

Learned a few things I didn't know. Will make me more confident using promises

It's a great book, well written, lots of facts and statistics. I simply had to stop reading it. I found myself becoming more and more upset at the absolute f#cking ridiculousness of our elected officials. I just couldn't read anymore.

Good, but she went too far with the cursing

Best one so far. Lots of action.

I read this book back when I was in college or perhaps high school. Primarily because of how Rand's work influenced the rock band Rush. It was fun to read it again, I'd forgotten so much of it.

I wish I could give it ten stars. An amazing book, so hard to read due to the honest truth of the horror this country endured in the January 6th insurrection. Every American should read this if only for the concrete, organized, honest and disturbing details of all of Trump's lies that are tearing the country apart.