What a fantastic book. Good pace. Inventive. If you love technology, movies, video games, RPGs, MMORPGs and the like and grew up in the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s - you may like this book. A lot.

Love love love this book. The obsessed nature of the owner is a little freaky, but then again, you want to KNOW what happened to your cat, even when they do come home. Easy read and I picked up the book and hugged it as I finished it.

Not bad. I really did not connect with any of the characters though. Everyone was basically broken, or annoying, or just puzzling. Still it was well written.

You have to love cats to love this book and I do.

Not bad. Easy read if you don't find a fair amount of gore detail. Good characters, but I found some inconsistencies. Still, it leaves you wanting some more, I think. And, while I love zombies, I think the genre is tired. This attempts to jump start it in a big way, and does a good job of it. I just think I might be over the whole idea.

Delicious little story. Love the language, love the style, love the idea, and most especially love the ending. A real treat. You can read it in one sitting, but you will soon realize you want to drag the story out for as long as possible.

Decided to read based on the series. Lots of nice nuance you do not get in the series. Interesting to see how the series follows the book, equally interesting to see the subtle differences. Prefer the book. WIll keep reading.

Saw the movie many years ago, never read the book. Glad I did that as it made understanding everything so much better (the reasons behind certain actions, etc). Certainly worth a read.

What a great book. Unexpected story (and several smaller stories within the main story) with great characters. Stuff to make you cringe (about the process of recovering from severe burns) and also think and dream about. Easy to read, very engaging. Great great book.

I thought at first that I would dislike the book, partly because I disliked some of the characters and partly because of the point of view the story was told from.

But I was wrong. I LOVED this book.

Great story, great characters. A horrible setting and the reality of WWII being as horrible as you can imagine, but a very satisfying read.

Enjoyed this as I continue to read more about this country's founding fathers. I find Mr. Franklin almost as interesting as Thomas Jefferson. Now, while I appreciated an easy to read biography, I found the way the author clustered certain forward and backward looking comments from a point of time in Franklin's life took a bit of getting used to. Stylistically not my preference, but I got used to it. Worth a look as a first read in to Franklin's life.

An enjoyable read. Fascinating, well written, good story (if some parts a bit unbelievable) but an ending that was far too abrupt. Still worth a look.

The book is written in a very inventive and creative way, I admit. But I found the conversational style and the way it appeared on the page just annoying. The boy is precocious, but aggravating. And the guesswork of unfolding the story of the grandparents was at first bothersome and also annoying, but it ended up coming together and making sense in the end.

As off putting this was at first glance and read, it eventually felt a far better read by the end of the book than I expected. The story was quite interesting and some of the characters were great, too. Worth a look for sure, but not my favorite.

It should be noted that I am a slow reader, and I tend to read only 5-10 pages at a time, and I think that was part of my problem with this book. I might have 'gotten it' if I'd read larger chunks of the book together at one time...

Funny.

Awesome comic.

The *idea* of this book is cool and fun and good. But the execution is lacking. The characters are pretty undeveloped and inconsistent. The actual story is pretty unexciting and bland. This book is all style (not word style, just idea style) and no substance. Coulda shoulda woulda. Ah well. Next!

Stupid funny.

Another recommendation from my wife. What a great book. This is the first book in a long, long time that I read in one sitting. Easy to read. Sharp. Sarcastic. Witty. Funny. Biting. Really excellent. I absolutely recommend this book.

My first foray in to reading Jane Austen. After getting used to the writing style, I really enjoyed the book. Good story, good characters, it really draws you in. I knew the essentials of the story from seeing this put on the screen, but it was so much better to get the full effect by reading everything, in particular the letters and the full discourse of the conversations. And yes, I think I will be reading a bit more of what Ms. Austen has written.

Horror, action, bureaucratic hell, alternate worlds, magic, some suspense. Enjoyable read, especially if you like this kind of blend (scifi-horror-gov. agency-etc). Has elements of 'Paranoia' to an extent, my brother would really enjoy this book.

Satisfying conclusion to the series, but a tad disjointed at times. Character development was a bit weak though I still enjoyed the story. I thought the final part of the ending a bit abrupt, too. Still a good read. You almost have to read all three books after you get more than knee deep in the first book.

Book two of the trilogy was a very good and quick read. The world is still rich and interesting, but I found the two main characters a tad annoying (whining, complaining, unsure of themselves) - granted this was probably by design, but the two-by-four belaboring this point used was not necessary. That said, this is just a nitpick. Still quite enjoyable and looking forward to the final book of the series.

I really enjoyed this. Very quick read, entertaining story that kept my attention, plenty of action. A little too YA at times, but the world created here is just great.

Really good historical fiction. Well written. My only nit with the whole thing was that it sometimes read a bit like a romance and/or soap opera. Otherwise, good.

Another reviewer commented '...This is verrrrry nineteenth-century Romantic, dramatic and melancholy and doomed destiny, played out over beautiful scenery without and horrible scenery within....' And I agree.

While I am glad to have finally read the book, and actually got over the Romantic/Gothic whatever style of the writing (so much so that I could probably read other books from this era), I found it a real chore to finish. I just did not care what happened to anybody -- I never felt hope for Frankenstein, the creature, or the friends and family. Perhaps I am jaded, but it was not a riveting or compelling story to me. The one thing I did enjoy about the book was that it was absolutely nothing like all of the silly movies, pulp fiction rip offs or comics of this original story. And the story, despite my not really liking the whole package that much, was quite original. I really liked the fact that the creature was intelligent and could speak (shockingly well).

Ah well, on to new stories.

Astoundingly good book. A great hybrid between the story of a family over many years and science nerdiness, and, of course, racial themes related to all of it. You will learn so many things you never thought you would have learned before picking up and reading this book. Highly recommended.

I'm a sucker for books about food, cooking, eating, dining. I also enjoy memoirs. So this book should have been a slam dunk.

Not.

I found it pretty one dimensional and repetitive, repetitive and repetitive. Many of the reviews here state this already (I suck at cooking, no I am getting better, no I am an anal retentive chef, oh no I am really not because I screwed up a recipe and improvised and it turned out ok. All this followed by I am disconnected from my family and history, but not really, oh yes I am, oh I will have a great feeling by the end of the book, oh no I won't oh yes I will. Etc Etc Etc).

And I found the specific brand names mentioned in context oddly disturbing. Sure Stieg Larsson did this with his books, but at least those books were otherwise entertaining. Do I really need to know what brand of clothing you bought, or what bottle of wine you drank or whatever? Did you sell product placements in to your book? It would not surprise me.

I also got the sense that the author more or less started on this 'journey' with the single desire to write a book. Not to reconnect with family, learn how to cook or learn more about her family history -- that was all the mere byproduct of what the author really wanted to do -- write and sell a book.

It's rare that I really dislike a book, but this here is one of them. Of course, your mileage may vary.

Mostly history, but presented in a more general manner, but in order. Pretty fascinating stuff, but the format begs for an update - it becomes repetitive and tedious as you slog through the later chapters. Still, it's worth a look and a read, especially if you love Italy, history and Florence.

Fun memoir. At times funny, generally entertaining and kept my interest. Also, it made me realize that I will never, ever want to own and run a convenience store. Haha!

Enjoyable read, but I honestly think the ending (prior to the epilogue) was kind of unnecessary. It's a quick read and you have to love the author's brevity.