Humdum. Many good observations, mostly already known. Many statements without exploration. Turned into a slog at the end.

Very readable, short history. Keegan’s grasp of history and context is amazing. Some sections a bit written to format and form, so a 4 and not a 5.

What an agile author, able to describe pretty mundane things so that I was turning pages to get to the next scene.

Quick, interesting read.

Enjoyable short discussion with the stated purposes of being The Elements of Style for logic.

Very topical in the time of wokeism and rejection of expertise. As the author implies, we all need to know how to reason.

An adequate attempt at a first book and introduction to Inspector Singh of the Singapore Police Force. The book did do a good job of presenting some of the paradoxes found in this paradoxically over confident and insecure island.

Fascinating topic and an interesting book by an author willing to share his opinion on whatever comes to mind, whether directly relevant or not; an author who also likes using unfamiliar but appropriate words. Repetitive to the point that I began wondering if the book was still a draft where copy and paste revisions had not been edited to remove redundancy.

Interesting stories about scientists, their very narrow focus now-a-days in comparison to early pioneers like Darwin or even more recent early ecologists.

Fun read

Excellent

Interesting points from an evolutionary biologist’s perspective from start to finish, with several sticky points: Mismatch diseases that are unlikely to be weeded out by natural selection due to their occurrence post reproduction, the influence of comfort on our bodies, how freaking slow is even Usain Bolt. A summary of the last few pages would have been useful in the introduction.

Very interesting take on war, taking place at the front . . . Gruesome in detail at time, almost whimsical at others. Insanity, silliness, futility and disdain for the unkept and unwashed, all in one book.

I just can’t make out why this work isn’t well known and cited often.

Well written, but a very hard read.

A very readable, well researched work about Adam’s character and his mark on Americaz

Very well written and depressing (note to self, don’t read about the Indian Wars, Holocaust or American slavery for an uplifting story). So much deceit and manipulated crises. A part of U.S. history that I wasn’t taught.

A good read throughout, an excellent read sometimes. Good history and stories.

Excellent book. Interesting topic, fairly well written (a bit overwrought at times and sometime too facty). Very surprised that it was still available in the library the day before Singapore’s lockdown given the subject.

Outstanding coming of age Western. McCarthy has incredible skill at moving characters through a scene without bogging the scene down. He saws in a few sentences what most would take paragraphs to do. There were some places that became a bit tedious (the fight in the corral) and the coindence of meeting Blevins in jail came close to defying reality, but overall a tremendous novel.

Very well written biography of a key thinker and influencer of banking.

Sometimes dense, sometimes esoteric, and overall a remarkable book. A book that I will need to read again.

Maybe the best book I have ever read. Sparse, simple, to the point writing, with big thoughts and messages (moral judgement, redemption, moral decay, loyalty and more).

“He turned and looked at me. And then I thought he looked a lot older. His eyes looked old. He said: People will tell you it was Vietnam brought this country to its knees. But I never believed that. It was already in bad shape. Vietnam was just the icin on the cake. We didn’t have nothin to give to me to take over there. If we’d sent me without rifles, I don’t know as they’d been all that much worse off. You can’t go to war like that. You can’t go to war without God. I don’t know what is going to happen when the next one comes. I surely don’t.” I recall my dad suggesting something similar but in different words when I was in college.

“I think I know where we’re headed. We’re bein bought with our own money. And it ain’t just the drugs. There is fortunes bein accumulated out there that they don’t nobody even know about. What do you think is going to come of that money? Money that can buy whole countries. It done has.”

“It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight."

Great observations and facts to support the book’s basic premise—do something and you will longer and more healthy. Written by a journalist, so at times it seemed like a collection of articles, and sometimes the attempts to be punchy became tiresome. Overall, I learned some good things and finished it.

Fast paced, and well structured.

Well crafted sentences and paragraphs to dissect a fairly short (1,337 word) document. The premier of freedom and equality being the twins upon which the document and ultimately the Constituion lie was well presented. BThe short chapters were appealing when I commenced reading, but became tiresome about a third of the way through.

I really like how the author moved the story and story-line from person to person (and finally to personality). I had forgotten the story about Commanche, the sole survivor on the blue-coat side. I recall a person made the claim to be a survivor, but I don’t recall his name in this book.

A bit of an abrupt ending, but interesting and mostly very readable.

Perhaps a difficult biography to write give the lack of source material, but the author’s style didn’t help to draw me into a story.

Always a pleasure to read about Rebus, but this one was berate. The last couple of chapters before the epilogue seemed rushed.

History and opinion very well presented. I really enjoyed reading this book, learning about miles and wagons and, yes, the Oregon Trail. The interaction between the author, Rinker Buck, and his brother, Nick, will be familiar to brothers worldwide. His fond words for his “trail family” and kind deeds along the way can make one hopeful that modern media hasn’t taken over all sense of community.

The author characterised the migration on the Oregon Trail as the world’s largest land migration. I sent him a message asking if he has a specific definition because I think of the Partition of India as many times larger. Still. I reply from him explaining, unfortunately.

What a find, an excellent collection. Sheckley is a wit, with an amazing ability to see the future. I couldn’t believe how current were several of the stories. A gem.