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The story is fairly dark and bleak. It is also quite repetitive, I almost put the book down because it kept repeating the same scenario, but varied just enough to get to the end. It was looking for more details on what happened, though them not knowing, I suppose, is part of the story.

The book is written with a distinct style, filled with dialog but not the customary dialog tags, confusing at times but not overly so. I realized it didn't always matter who said it.

An excellent guide to improve your writing. The book is full of practical suggestions, tons of examples, and is solid writing itself. I've read both Strunk & White and Pinker's Sense of Style and recommend Zinsser's book as the first to read, and then re-read.

A good quick read around product development practices. It was written in 2006, the PDF has been sitting in my ebooks folder for over 10 years. Amazingly, for a book about web development, released prior to the iPhone, it is still quite relevant and good pracitical advice.

The book did not provide me with anything earth shaking, especially if you've been doing app development for awhile; but it is good a collection of still sound principles and reasoning for modern development processes, and project management.

An epic Western story told with an amazing detail and harsh reality about how it was to live in the West at that time. It is a long one but well worth the time.

Read this story with my 8-yr old daughter, her first major chapter book. We started reading it together but she really got into it and read the second half without me. So I finished it on my own to hear the end of the story.

It's a fun story that literally dives deep into the world of fairy tales.