Reviews and Comments

The plot of this book was OK, but the writing was pretty brutal... At times it seemed like adjective bingo with too many winks and nods at what came before....

I haven't read any other Star Wars books in the past, so I have no idea how this compares, but I'm not going to be rushing out to read any more in the future.

Um... This book is hard for me to review. I read it quickly, and didn't find it boring, but the constant pop-culture references wore on me in a way they didn't in RP1. I guess in the previous book they felt more true to the story. The story itself felt strangely derivative, but knowingly so. The book constantly referred to The Last Starfighter, Ender's Game, etc.. It did take a twist I was not expecting in the last quarter of the book or so.

The ending felt somewhat phoned in.

But as I was finishing the book I realized what it felt like it was trying to be: The teenager's equivalent of an 'airplane read'. And I guess it succeeded at that.

I don't even remember how I came across this book... A dash of Catch-22, a sprinkling of romance, and a undercurrent of condemnation for the platitude-deep "support" the American public gives it's troops...

I had a few false starts in trying to get into this novel, but then I decided awhile ago that I'd read it on my upcoming vacation... I just finished it, reading it at a pretty fast (for me) clip.

I loved this book, one of the best from Gibson post-Sprawl, and potentially displacing the Bigend books in my nonexistent ranking of books from an author I love. Of course, the range of that ranking system is pretty narrow.

I look forward to future books in this world, for sure, in fact, I wish I had more right now.

Still fantastic. I don't know what to say about my favorite book.

I originally started this re-read to keep my attention held while I waited for my Oculus Rift DK2 to arrive... I have a few more days before it arrives and I find myself wondering if I can power thru Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive before it does arrive.

Or maybe I should try to re-read Snow Crash in the next few days...

Or maybe i'm a ridiculously slow reader and all of the above is a pipe dream..

Halfway through the book I found out that July 1st was the 30th anniversary of Neuromancer's release. There's some weird synchronicity in there somewhere.

This book was not quite what I expected from Stephenson, but I really enjoyed it.. More 'thriller with a touch of tech' instead of scifi, at times the writing style reminded me of William Gibson, which is not bad at all.

This was the least 'gimmicky' Stephenson book in awhile... The Baroque Cycle blended major historical figures with fiction, Anathem had the irritating invented language, but Reamde (once you get past the [sic] title) is pretty straight-ahead.

Stephenson's endings often feel a little slapdash, and this one too felt a bit anticlimactic. There were so many characters that bringing resolution to all of their intertwining arcs was bound to be problematic.

Did a decent job of analyzing such an ethereal album, but sometimes it felt like it was grasping a bit for a narrative.

I've always been secretly fascinated by both Phish and Juggalo culture, while not digging the music of either... This is a pretty humanizing portrayal of both, courtesy of a writer who didn't start out as a fan of either.

This was a quick, enjoyable read...

While this book lists Terry Francona as an author, this isn't really true. While most books 'written' by non-author celebrities are ghostwritten, this book does not even try to make an attempt to show Tito as an author. Instead, it is a Dan Shaughnessy (CHB) book, and Tito is always referred to in the third person. I might not have read this book if I had known this going in, as I really hate CHB's as a writer and a personality. I would have preferred the pretense afforded by the usual ghostwriting arrangement.

I finished this book because the story was engaging, but the writing was infuriating. Unless you're a big Sox fan, you would never want to read this book. In fact, I can't really recommend it to sox fans either.

I read this book on the recommendation of a few friends, and went into it relatively ignorant of it. While I do feel a bit tricked into reading YA, this is a pretty good part of the "genre"

It also might be the first time I've read a whole book in one day (I am a ridiculously slow reader), it really held my attention with its bittersweet story...

A very enjoyable read, but it is a great illustration of how everyone can use an editor. Coppola eliminated a ton of unnecessary story (Lengthy descriptions of Sonny's member, pelvic floor tightenings, background story of ancillary characters) and the whole was better for it.

A friend sold this book to me as "Everything you wished Malcolm Gladwell books would be" and I think that was an apt description.

I found that any time I thought to myself "I wonder where he is getting this data from" there was a citation. No absurd claims were made and the closest thing to a panacea offered is "Think probabilistically".