F: Avoid this book.

This is a collection of comic strips from the webcomic User Friendly that were published in 2001. It includes the 9/11 tribute strips. My particular copy was a gift from the cartoonist, who signed it for me when he came out to San Jose in January (J.D. is waaay cool). User Friendly is a comic by, for, and about geeks. Pros: It’s a very funny book, and takes me down nostalgia lane to a time when jokes about living in a missile silo were funny. Cons: Some of the jokes are even above my geek IQ, so I don’t always get them, and they can tend to be a little repetitive (which is OK in a one-a-day format, because you’re not reading them all at once). It helps to read one storyline, finish it, and stop reading for the night; this is why I took 3 days to get through the book, by the way.

I finished this one. I give it about an A- or a B+. A GREAT book for word nerds, and a good one for Victorian history buffs.

I finished this book. It’s a very charming little book containing a very dark, devious story. I’ll probably give it about a B+ in my book review, largely because of the way it has to “talk down” to younger readers.

I just recently finished this novel, which was an interesting, if somewhat preachy, look at Western-style colonialism.

A friend of mine showed me this re-iullustrated version recently, and I fell in love with it. A very nice little story with beautiful new illustrations to more respectfully represent the tale. The author’s note at the back lends great historical and cultural background to this edition.

I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend of mine who knows the author from an online community. I’m intrigued and look forward to reading it.

I have started reading this book. Because I am writing a science fiction novel, don’t know enough science, and (hahahah) don’t have enough to do right now.

Finished the book, and passed the test. Sometimes things are given more emphasis in one section of the book than they are in another. However, the questions at the end of each section really do make you go back and check your work.

I listened to this on audible.com. I thought it was very good, though the pace sometimes felt slow. Still, it’s a story that takes place on the very edges of reality, and it had this intensely desert-like tone that matched both the setting and the subject matter.