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I'm "reading" the full-cast audio production while following the text, and so far, it's wonderful. The audio production is extremely well-done, very professional, like radio theater, and the book is great. I'm looking forward to seeing where it leads me.

Got about 20% of the way into it and am considering not finishing it. It's a little cliché ridden, occasionally a little bombastic, the dialogue and exposition seem dragged out to fill space, and it concerns the Yeltsin era in Russia, and so is dated. Coonts' books are huge bestsellers and so I've always wanted to read one just to know what they're like, but I may check this off my list without finishing it.

I’m about 2/3 of the way through this and have so far found it boring. Is it worth trying to finish it?

So far, wonderful; creative and very entertaining.

The title is unfortunate, but after the first couple of chapters, I'm hooked on this mashup of Sci-Fi, Urban Fantasy, and dragons.

Slow start but it's getting more interesting.

So far, ... meh.

Great fun.

Wow, so nostalgic. It brings back so many wistful, almost painful, memories.

I don't yet get it.

Slow to start, odd world-building, but at about a third of the way through, it's becoming interesting and the point is coming into focus.

SoFar, one of Walker's better books in the series.

So far it's funny, often hilarious, and totally charming.

So far, delightful. Wonderful for Halloween.

Barely into the first chapter and so far, it's creative and hilarious.

I'm about a third of the way through this and two things stand out: the Chinese really, really, really hate the Japanese. The atrocities the Japanese committed during the pre-war occupation of China and during WWII are still fresh in their minds and far from forgiven. Secondly, Chinese writers still have to tiptoe around the 50s and 60s abuses of Maoism.

Wonderful book. So far, it comes across as simply reasonable and wise (of course, that's Weil's shtick, but he's won me over). One great thing so far is an excellent brief history of "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor" class drugs like Prozac and Zoloft. I had no idea that they were related to, and largely derived from antihistamines, and that their effect is largely as a placebo.

On chapter five. This wonderful book is magical, and the suspense is building.

I just finished the first two chapters, and it's ... glorious ... amazing.

I just finished the first two chapters, and its ... glorious ... amazing.

Working my way through the H.P. Lovecraft “Complete Fiction.” I have it next to a chair and pick up it as I think about it, so this is filler while I read other books more seriously. The stories are in chronological order and so far, nothing’s been particularly horrific. However, it’s helped me understand the early 20th-century “weird tales” craze because the stories aren’t suspenseful or scary, just … weird.