Biggest Disappointments

aulsmith: Found this much less engrossing than 1984 to which it had been compared.

hipdeep: I love Bryson's earlier work, but this doesn't particularly hang together well. It feels disjointed and haphazard.

aulsmith : I suspect that many younger people find it dated, but reading it in the sixties, when we thought we'd be nuked out of existence at any moment, it was both hopeful and scary.

hipdeep: Substantial alleged fabrications in this autobiographical story.

hipdeep: I liked the first 3 books well enough (actually Azkaban was quite good) but this is the one where I found myself pleading with Rowling to get to the dang point already. I thought it was too long by a third.

aulsmith: Too long and episodic without an overall point.

aulsmith: I thought it dragged. It was obvious where the plot was going and I didn't find the jokes worth the time to get there.

aulsmith : Not really a sequel to American Gods. A marketing mistake. I loved what he did with the women.