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I enjoyed the author's description of story, the root of acting and entertainment. Scenes and lessons learned as a young man were done with humor and wisdom, and the ending was quite a nice summation of a life well lived and the full effects of choices made. Some of the middle bits wandered from the main, discussing specifics and names that didn't mean anything to me and didn't add anything to the story, in my opinion. Overall, a good biography.

I like the original title better - "Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay". This book gives a solid international analysis of the breakdown, with relatively simple examples. This perspective was missing from US-based tracts, and was well appreciated. The humour (British, of course) was both welcome and well done. I was unable to track back the original reason I added this to my reading list, but recommend you add it to yours.

Nice pictures by Keith Thompson; the accompanying text doesn't add to the related novels. Would have liked more cutaway views or perspective drawings.

Starts off as a culture exploration novel, transitions to something like The Man from Earth (a highly recommended movie incidentally). The middle section is a little rough; the hints are all dropped towards the end instead of being sprinkled around. It also feels quite rushed - the first third of the book moves at a pretty slow pace comparatively.

Enjoyed the start, tolerated the premise, liked the descriptions and the voice of the reader, Bronson Pinchot. Not the most even of narratives, and the ending seemed a bit sudden.

Audio book, performed by the author, who is a really funny guy. He makes a case for atheism by outlining the ten atheist suggestions (in place of the ten commandments) and a collection of anecdotes. The latter don't always correspond to the former, but most have a connection to the case for atheism. It's hard to refute Penn's argument that terrorists are a problem because of faith more than any specific religion, and I strongly agree with his statement that the majority of people are good. Overall a book both funny and thought provoking, and probably offensive to many.

Very enjoyable sequel, would likely stand on its own very well. A very interesting expansion of the universe; looking forward to reading more. Also a quick read - started on one plane flight and finished before boarding for the return flight.

A quick enjoyable read; the technology was very accurate.

A fairly complete collection of English grammatical rules, punctuation, and usage, with plenty of interesting anecdotes and excerpts. Audio book version, read by the author (which is always the best).

The majority of these stories were pretty good, which is not the most stellar review, but there you are. Many short story collections are much more hit and miss. I will seek out more by this author in the near future.

I enjoy a heist story, and that this was. Many of the principal characters didn't quite fit into those roles. If found I enjoyed it more by disregarding what I know of Han Solo, Lando Calrissian and many others from the expanded universe. Well, maybe not Lando - his character is a great face-man. Liked it, but didn't love it.

I really enjoyed this collection of tales of the first non-asians to enter Tibet. Many published their own accounts later, but this was an excellent summary, and had the pacing of a thriller at times. It took me only seven days to read it in my few off hours.

With two major libraries near me, only one had a beat-up copy in the central archives, acquired thirty years ago. I am glad the person who dog-ears either stopped reading after the second chapter or gave up the habit. I just wish the food-eater had done the same - but unfortunately speckles of stuff were found all the way to the end.

This book deserves to be reprinted and possibly updated.

I haven't read the Bonus Chapter yet, nor seen the Manual of Aeronautics, but this book was a satisfactory ending to the series. Wasn't particularly thrilled with Tesla's portrayal here, but the rest of the historical figures seemed pretty accurate.