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Overly descriptive.

Interesting history of Halloween coupled with the ways different cultures have celebrated it {if that's the right word} through time.

A little repetitive

Dean adds a little bloat and exposition on his way to the climax.

A little bloat, some overly descriptive narrative, but it's holding interest.

Slightly expository, but holding interest. Surprising is Dean's method of making a talking dog- believable.

Skim, baby, skim!
First miss on a prediction though.

Although the plotline continues to hold interest, predictability not only continues, it is expected.
Particularly the now introduced romance trope.
The 2nd 25% of the book is more skimmable than the 1st 25%.
Accordingly, most of what is being skimmed is bloat, which has become more dominant.
Strongly suspect the reason for this is because the author was aware, from his original sketches, this was to be serialized.

Acceptable plotline, predictable however.
Overly descriptive, making it very much skimmable.

Good prose & all, but is slightly confusing at times.

Well written, but there is some bloat.

Well written.

Still a compelling read, but rife with unnecessary bloat = still skimmable.

The core story is still good, but there's been a lot of redundancy = skimmable.

Good. Holding interest.

A good read.

Good suspense during the tomb digging constructs.

Keeps getting better; enjoying this.

Holding interest.

It's a monster.

It's a monster, and like most long books- it's overwritten, but I do have an interest in this historical figure and this period of history.

Enjoying the read.

At around 30%, it starts getting interesting.
Gates begins developing his interest in writing software.
This is what I picked up the read for.

At a fourth of the way through this, except for the hook, there is nothing on the development of the interest that would come to change the world.
Like most personal memoirs, celebrity or otherwise, not too much dramatically different from the average 1960s childhood, or, likely, yours.