Similar to the previous two, interesting in the unique POV it offers (bad guy). But I really hated the too much spoon feeding (retelling of recent events again & again in details)

Nice & short. Filled with mystical stuff both light & dark. I've been engaged with both the story and the writing. At the beginning reminded me with The Secret Garden & then nop. It is unique.

Nice read. Full of nuggets for thought. Its tag line provides a good enough summary.

Science meets politics in space. Loved the various protagonists & how the story progresses by following each for a while then jumping to the next. Each has his/her own fluahed character & internal dialog. Can be a bit tough at times though.

I wish I could forget it so I can read it again for the first time. The book that got everything right.

PS: I will just leave these here:

- "Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite."

- "Famine and plague were everywhere, and in some places there was such despair that mothers could no longer muster enough hope to give their children names"

- "More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere"

- "The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up"

- "She disappeared back into the crowd, a wonderful collection of gently moving curves"

Had a few good & novel idea but so repetitive. After saying something smart, you will encounter 5 examples and 10 pages of the same previously said smart thing reworded to the point of boredom. The call to complete reform of the justice system at the end is also nice, but yet again should've been summarized into much much fewer words.

Short enough as to not bore you with self-help bs & long enough to get the point accross. Loved the examples; Sully & Karachi soap. Summary: checklists are not sexy but they help.

Lives up to its predecessor in all aspects. Couldn't stop & was effectively compelled to go on and pick it up again and again till the end. Loved how it treats how legends are made from the accumulation of events and incidents and how that get woven into a fabric of grandeur & heroism.

A few quotes to remember this by:

- The cost of a loaf is a simple thing & so a loaf is often sought. But some things are past valuing; laughter, land and love are never bought.

-It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out of their grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing.

-No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

Ups and downs with this book of everything. Beautiful & masterful. Just re-read it already.

Joe Hill is never afraid to kill a character. I enter this book prepared for this but still the grimness of some parts left me with a bad after taste. A book about how humans behave under duress; how some will turn bad while others stay good while the majority will just be gray. Some scenes are over explained for my taste but the flow of the rest is great.