Karen C. Piantek

Love these books!

Revisado: 11-09-22

I accidentally read book 2 first, but this one was still great, even though I knew everything that happened.

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So interesting!

Revisado: 03-08-22

Such an interesting book. The authors take a look at often conflicting 'rules' about ownership (e.g. first come first served, possession, product of labor, etc) and discuss how these ideas have shaped our world. I flew through this book.

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Page After Page of Misery

Revisado: 01-23-22

I wanted to give the book one star overall, but to be fair it is objectively well-written, suspenseful, and had one or two good parts. The issue is that thrillers are not my favorite genre (reading for a book club) and I hated just about every single character in the book. I wanted to scream at Blythe most of the time, and I wanted to hit Fox on multiple occasions. (I can handle hating one character in a book, but there is no relief when you hate all of them.) I expected the ending. There are little if any happy parts in the book that I can remember, and honestly, even in a book like this, you need the balance. The book wasn't a thriller for me, but one page of misery after another. I could not wait to finish it and move on with my life. (I have trouble putting a book down once I start it.) I guess the book does raise some interesting questions, but I just loathed the characters too much to care.

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Page After Page of Misery

Revisado: 01-17-22

I wanted to give the book one star overall, but to be fair it is objectively well-written, suspenseful, and had one or two good parts. The issue is that thrillers are not my favorite genre (reading for a book club) and I hated just about every single character in the book. I wanted to scream at Blythe most of the time, and I wanted to hit Fox on multiple occasions. (I can handle hating one character in a book, but there is no relief when you hate all of them.) I expected the ending. There are little if any happy parts in the book that I can remember, and honestly, even in a book like this, you need the balance. The book wasn't a thriller for me, but one page of misery after another. I could not wait to finish it and move on with my life. (I have trouble putting a book down once I start it.) I guess the book does raise some interesting questions, but I just loathed the characters too much to care.

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Great book, but it will make you angry.

Revisado: 10-02-21

The book is a great overview of misogyny throughout history and cultures. The author does a great job analyzing its pervasiveness, but also the myriad ways in which we ignore misogyny as a prejudice.

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Part memoir, part sociological study, all good

Revisado: 08-28-21

I enjoyed the book overall. I like both memoir and social science nonfiction, and this was both. The performance was good as well. I disagreed with one of the author's statements at one point, but this is a solid book, good story, good research, and important topic.

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Half good stories, half non-stories, few funny

Revisado: 07-28-21

I really wanted to like this book, but I was incredibly disappointed. About half the stories in the book were genuinely good, but few were actually funny. I LOLed maybe twice and smiled a few other times. Part of the issue, I think, is that the reader did not have a voice that invited humor. She read way too seriously for my liking.

The other half of the stories were not really stories. Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and these did not. Many times I didn't realize the book had moved on to another story because there was no real end/closure to the previous one. This is an obvious hazard of flash fiction like this, and it didn't do the stories or the book justice. If you're inclined to check out this book, get the hard copy and read it yourself.

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Good but heavy on chemistry

Revisado: 07-09-21

Good book, but I sometimes got lost in the chemistry. some chapters were a little dense

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It surprised me

Revisado: 06-12-21

I got the book free from Audible just to have something on deck for between credits. It sounded decent, but I wasn't expecting much. The book turned out to be fascinating. It wasn't overly math-heavy for having been written by a mathematician, and I learned a lot. Great exploration of algorithms and the philosophical questions are AI and their potential for creativity.

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Good book, bad reading

Revisado: 05-31-21

After the prologue, the book goes back to James's childhood (which is horrific), so it takes a while to get back to her career in wine. I understand the need to backtrack this far, but the title and subtitle of the book suggest that the book involves more about wine than it actually does. The book was good overall, but I had been expecting something else.

I usually like it when the author reads their own book, and I hate being really critical, but James is a really bad reader. She pauses in odd places and seems to ignore punctuation. There were countless times that I had to re-interpret what she was saying because I thought she had finished her thought only to have her go on. Another review I read said the same thing, so I'm not sure if I just noticed it more because of that. I tried to ignore it, but it was sometimes distracting.

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