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This book is brilliant. I can't believe there aren't countless reviews on Goodreads. People!

this book is a wonderful surprise!!
and delight!
it might be perfect!

it would seem i'm having trouble getting through this book.
hmmmmm

nope

Hmm, I dunno, sounded good and well reviewed by people whose reviews I respect... but so far just pfaffle?

ugh

DNF

have to pause it, it's so depressing, (but well done), not mixing well with other events. so far have learned so much about Jim Crow. Depressing.

the books i've been reading are so meh that i am treating myself to genius

can't do any more. not funny. makes me feel sorry for the guy, which makes me feel bad.

can't get interested at the half way mark, gonna bail.

Really having problems with this book. Some good ideas but superficial. Definitely YA, (I'm too old for YA) so I'm skimming as much as I can and will be speeding up to find out answers.

did not finish. in fact didn't get beyond p 50.

Very interesting. Not a fun read, lots of church procedural, lots of brutality and miscogeny reflecting the time. Definitely not a good time for women.

The author is great, telling of potentially true events in the mid 800s well done and thought out. Just not that enjoyable. Had to skim a good bit (to be honest).

Trite, but amusung. Prob better in japanese.

I hate this book but cant stop reading. Into skimming stage.

Lewis is a great writer, breathing life into his subject always through the human element. Here his subject is the remarkable scientific duo, Tversky and Kanehman, whose pioneering work les to an appreciation of how people make decisions. The story of their friendship, and their own personal stories, is moving. I read Kanehman's great book, Thinking Fast and Slow, but understand much better after Lewis. Great book.

So happy to be done. Chernow does his usual thorough and insightful job, but Rockefeller is not sympathetic in any way. JD's crabbed, hyper religious and supercilious approach to business and his family is, in the total, uninspired. I'm with Ida Tarbell on this one.

There is nothing even remotely believable in this book. The awful and the happy things that happen to the characters don't have any influence over their psyches. Their development, if there was any (nope) had absolutely nothing to do with what was happening in their lives. If the point of the book was to try to replicate Greek tragedy, didn't work. You have to feel for the character for tragedy to develop.

Endless Gore and surgically rendered killing .. yet, there is something about Mattias Tannhauser wry examination of himself and the world that is penetrating and fascinating. Interludes of mysticism are appropriate and moving amid the hell on earth painted here.

This second part of a planned trilogy does not compare to the truly wonderful first book about the Siege of Malta... Not much historical pickings here.

Too YA for me. couldn't finish