JBEG Hewitt's Profile

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Age Of Bronze Volume 3A by Eric Shanower

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff

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JBEG Hewitt is currently reading:

The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2)

by Neal Stephenson

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Nov 18, 2008 10:39am

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The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age - The '20s, '30s & '40s

by Otto Penzler

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Mar 12, 2008 10:27am

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JBEG Hewitt gave to: Hedy's Folly: The Life And Breakthrough Inventions Of Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Woman In The World by Richard Rhodes	My rating:
Poorly written, half-digested research, repetitive and unaware that its most interesting subject is not Heddy at all.
Dec 29, 2011 06:50am · see review
JBEG Hewitt gave to: Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis	My rating:
The funniest, smartest and most literary book Lewis has written since LIAR'S POKER
Dec 29, 2011 06:45am · see review
JBEG Hewitt gave to: Reamde by Neal Stephenson	My rating:
I luvs me some Stephenson, and I really enjoyed this book. But without question it is the weakest of a brilliant career: too long and micromanaging to be an effective thriller, and not innovative or experimental enough to justify the length on other...more
Dec 20, 2011 03:05pm · see review
JBEG Hewitt is now following Neil's reviews
Sep 29, 2011 05:40pm
JBEG Hewitt made a comment on their review of Patient Zero (Joe Ledger, #1) "Zombie terrorists? What's not to love? Ugh. This book, that's what. OK. I finished it. And sure, I may read the next book in the series. But that only...more"
May 13, 2011 09:27am · see review
JBEG Hewitt gave to: Patient Zero (Joe Ledger, #1) by Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
May 13, 2011 09:25am
JBEG Hewitt gave to: Spin (Spin, #1) by Robert Charles Wilson read in September, 2010	My rating:
Why did I finish this? I sink into despair thinking of all the unpleasant household tasks I could have completed in the hours it took me to read this book. The sf premise is great . . . the earth is essentially removed from cosmic time . . . but alas...more
Oct 03, 2010 06:04am · see review
JBEG Hewitt gave to: A Person of Interest: A Novel by Susan Choi read in June, 2010	My rating:
This novel that tells at once the history of a mathematician and his failures and the story of the investigation of a mail bombing for which he becomes a "person of interest" was exceedingly well done. Choi has overlaid a tale of modern day malaise -...more
Oct 03, 2010 05:56am · see review
JBEG Hewitt gave to: The Giant, O'Brien: A Novel by Hilary Mantel read in August, 2010	My rating:
I loved the scenario of this: the marketing of freaks and burgeoning field of medicine (necessitating corpse stealing) at the end of the 18th century. The novel felt a bit more like a short story (and it is very short) . . . given how much revolved a...more
Oct 03, 2010 05:50am · see review
JBEG Hewitt gave to: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel read in April, 2010	My rating:
I listened to this on audio book . . . and rather wish I had read it, since one of the pleasures of Mantel is looking at the sentence. That said, I was entirely captivated by the tale of Cromwell and the delicious portrait of the evil Thomas More. Th...more
Oct 03, 2010 05:46am · see review