Taylor Fisher

Love Patton's stand up, loved this. A short but sweet look into the background of one of the funniest nerds still trying to make us laugh.

These seem to get better and better as the series goes. I was worried at first this book would end in a convoluted mess, but Butcher actually pulled it out and surprised me quite a few times in the process.

I've had a hard time with some of the other Neal Stephenson books I've tried, but for some reason this one was right up my alley. I disagree with most of his thoughts on metaphysics as presented, but the overall narrative was able to keep me interested much more than I expected. I went into this book expecting to probably set it aside (as I have done with some of Stephenson's other works). I was pleasantly surprised when I found myself staying up late to see where the story would go next.

Man oh man, as good as I'd heard, almost couldn't put it down once I'd started it.

I went back and forth on this one, almost setting it down a few times, and then getting excited in places. It was a bit of an odd read for me as it felt so much like the cliche fantasy that I thought I knew what was going to happen around every corner, after a few surprises, I began to think they would obviously be doing things differently and a cliche would ambush me again. Overall I liked it, and will read the second book, but if it continues the slow meander this one did for the first 3/4, I might think of putting it down. Only to probably have it suck me in again. Gah, reading roller coaster.