Matt

Great stuff if you enjoy sword and sorcery. Well-written and you come to love the characters. Just a few bits were predictable enough to keep it from being five stars, but I'm hoping it gets even better as William King's run goes on.

Lots of great stories, but I don't think I absorbed what this book was trying to tell me. I may read it again for that reason.

Inspiring stuff, but since the author has only published three books in the last six years, I guess his answer to the question is "make excuses."

Don't know why, but I had a harder time getting through this book than any other Moorcock. Still good enough not to quit, though.

I'm not a person who ever reads kids' books, but I read this because the author is a friend of mine. I'll be damned if the book didn't win me over! Great stuff!

Great, lighthearted read. It especially appealed to my fondness for taking things as literally as possible.

Loved the history of the game. The game-related autobiographical bits were okay. I didn't like the game demo parts and especially didn't like the fictionalized narrative describing the game demo parts.

Read this on the heels of a Drachenfels reread and expected a good twist near the end. Readers looking for Genevieve Dieudonne will be disappointed. She and her playwright lover do appear, but barely, and are, for the most part, superfluous to the plot.

This is a mystery, almost a procedural, with a seer taking the place of a forensics expert. Wound up with this is the story of the commoners of Altdorf being stirred up for revolution, making things all the hairier for the group trying to solve the mystery as they're led by one aristocrat and suspect another might be their prey. I'm a sucker for characters who are the best at what they do, and I'm given a great duelist in this novel who is quite satisfying. He's regularly given a chance to show his stuff thanks to his beautiful, difficult, and slander-magnet sister. Wonderful characters including two ambassadors who couldn't be more different and some good guys who are actually good in this bad, bad world. I got my twist and it was a great one.

My first ever Warhammer 40K novel. War always and forever seems ridiculous and super bleak to me, so I've avoided them until now. This one was great! Much better than I expected, so I know I'm in good hands with Dan Abnett, anyway.

Nota bad book, but I was disappointed in the distance between my expectations and what the author delivered. It's mostly pointing out the problems with established religions and doesn't seem to approach creating your own religion until the final chapter. In the book's defense, the subtitle clearly states "without instructions," but a more accurate title might be Why Religions Mostly Suck.

Never disappointed by Backderf's work. I love everything he does.

Just finished my second reading, the first being twenty or twenty-five years ago. I liked the book a lot more this time, because I knew what type of book I was getting into. My first read felt too slow and it was only after the big event of the second-half of the book that I realized I had read something great.

Delany always makes me feel like a bit of a dim bulb, but most of this book was accessible , entertaining, and thought-provoking.

Helen Marshall???s latest collection feels like dreams: linear plots are often abandoned for events and places that haunt you long after you wake. With regularity unsettling image draws you toward sharp observation toward brushes with divinity toward caked blood and dirt beneath your nails. Marshall???s work seeps into you so your skin never settles quite evenly across your muscle again.

An amazing oral history of an amazing movie.

Martha Washington is the type of hero we should all aspire to be and the Surgeon General has become one of my favorite villains.

Thorough and entertaining. Puts to rest any suggestion Keaton spent the second half of his life as a has-been. The guy worked and thrived almost until the very end.

Epic. Deep. A blast. This is my second reading, the first being nearly forty years ago. These books were written to last. I may be enjoying them even more than I did as a teenager. A deeper knowledge of the world only enriches the experience. Nearly everything I remember from this series came from the first two books. This is exciting, as these books are my favorite adventure story. It's similar to reading them for the first time. The end of book 2 knocked the game board over and scattered the pieces. Here, those that remain gather strength and make fragile alliances. Julian May was absolutely brilliant, her layers of knowledge stack atop one another to make (brace yourself for this metaphor) a magnificent baklava, honeyed by her cinematic writing style. I can't wait to see how it turns out (again).

Beautiful, incredibly imaginative, white-hot nonsense.

Butterfly Jar

This is a beautifully written, heartbreaking book. I bought this after attending a fantastic reading by Ms. Davis in Orlando. I hope to read much more from her in the future.

Second go-around. Love it.

Heck of a fight!

Stunning art and color. Like nothing I've ever seen in comics.

Loved this book, but I can't necessarily recommend it. In fact, there was quite a chunk in the middle where I considered quitting it. But I stuck with it and to my surprise, the last few I pages had me sobbing. You can't hate on a book that does that to you.

Oh, the names, the names! (There's a guide in the back of the book) What a great novel. It moved quickly, though there wasn't a lot of action. The story was gripping as our protagonist stumbles his way to learning how to be an emperor. I'd love to know exactly how Addison pulled it off.