John M. Wargo

disorganized, scattered, not quite sure what I learned. Lots and lots of references to other books.

meh. Not very useful. Stopped reading it.

great story, very engaging. Sad that there has to be a third book.

great short story, shouldn't be its own book. Scalzi always does an amazing job defining these weird scenarios and telling a good story around it.

It's good, but the authors could have done better. The books for an older version of Eagle, so a lot was wrong in the instructions (not the authors's fault). My problem with it was that the instructions were incomplete. If they showed you how to use the UI in some way, and later referred to that UI element. They didn't repeat the info - so, you only get the info once, not once in intro and later when you actually use it for the first time. I also noticed that the authors fell into the same trap many authors of technical content do. They provide information in the wrong order. Don't tell me what I'm looking for, the how to find it, give me the instructions in the exact order I need them in. Look here, then here, then click on that rather than click on that, looking first here, the here to find it. Makes sense?

Great story

Saw the movie when it came out, but didn't remember much about it. Fun to experience it in its original form.

Murderbot is cool

I love the way he's growing emotionally as the story progresses, but still ready to destroy people for his clients. Fun series.

Fun little sci fi murder mystery

Why do I need to say any more than that? Just to get a submit button in the good reads app.

A bit overdone

Lots and lots of long and boring back story as the tale unfolds. It's the author's MO, but I wish he'd try something else. I hate stories told from 5 different perspectives with constant jumping around. Could have been more tightly told, and therefore shorter.

Really good book, excellent short stories. Some stories develop really nicely, then end abruptly, but they're still good stories. I didn't finish the last story as it kept jumping around and after about 6 pages, I couldn't tell what it was about, so I abandoned it.

Its OK. I spent a lot of time trying to understand what he's telling me and why. There were a lot of things he brought up, but never explained or explained at a very high level. I found that I didn't get as much as I wanted from this book.

Couldn't finish reading it, I think I'm done with Card. Almost halfway through the book and nothing's really happened. It's all long, boring dialog with the participants all trying to look smart or prove that they're smart. Its a space freaking opera, something should happen, but Card just can't get past his need to fill the pages with arguments and analysis of political situations. Ugh. I used to love his work, but all he wants to do nowadays is write arguments.

Finally finished this

Second half was much better than the first half, really enjoyed it and happy I picked it back up again.

Disorganized and incomplete. Short (64 pages). Not worth it.

interesting stories, great insights into the life of a war correspondent, the stupidity of the military, and more. I'm glad I read this, no history book would have given me these insights.

Excellent book - very clear and concise introduction to React.

Good, solid methodology for determining and building product features. I think the playbooks sections went a little long, lots and lots of repetitive information in those sections.

a really good book, great read. It jumped around between characters a bit too much for me, but still a great read.

Good book, covers a lot of topics.

Excellent book. Loved it. It's a great story of empires and greed. He left it open for a sequel, lets see what happens.

It's OK; there are some good tidbits in there. Unfortunately, the book's more than two years old (as of my reading) and the author did nothing to fix the myriad of typos in the book. There's also many long listing of app reviews eating up the page count for limited value. The author made almost no effort to format the book for print, so sections end where they shouldn't, and there's big blank or almost blank pages where he could have made better use of the space. It would be interesting to see this book get a refresh, heck, I'd even help format it for print for him.

Excellent, thought-provoking book. I have it to my 13 year old son to read next.

Too weird. I have a rule that if I'm 100 pages into a book and don't understand what it's about that I will quit reading it. At 100 pages, something actually happened and I thought the book would start making sense. Nope, not so much. It's quirky enough that it's fun, but it's so non-cohesive that I just couldn't finish it. He tried way way too hard to be quirky and he lost me. Waste of time.

More about politics than I expected. A good history, but I know less about what it was like than I expected.

A little long winded, but fun.

The author loved to go into long descriptions of ship components which I found tiring (and therefore skipped). Could have been a better book, but it was a fun read.