Teachertraveler

• Rated 4 stars

“Good introduction to the city with lots of information and good maps. The format is perfect for a few days. ”

Teachertraveler wrote this review Sunday, November 27, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“Overall, good for getting where you want and seeing the things you enjoy. I really like how they prioritize things for you as well as have clear, readable maps. With everything on the internet now, the dinning and staying sections seem outdated, but the rest is quite spot on. ”

Teachertraveler wrote this review Sunday, November 27, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 2 stars

“I'm torn on this one. The writing is fantastic: sparse but engaging. I read the entire thing in one day because I could not wait to find out what happens.
Still, would I have wished to read it knowing what I know now? No. Some of the scenes are so vividly horrific and I found myself skimming over many sections just because I was done with the shock value of it all. ”

Teachertraveler wrote this review Wednesday, October 26, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

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• Rated 3 stars

“Finally got through it after a second attempt. The beginning is painfully slow. The story with the Vangers is so shocking and times so graphic that I was ready to put it down again. The ending just sort of trailed off.

Parts of it were really engaging and at one particular point I audibly gasped loudly in the middle of a train. Still, I don't know if I'd ever recommend the book to anyone. or read any of the sequels. ”

Teachertraveler wrote this review Tuesday, September 27, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 2 stars

“Felt like the story spent so much time building up characters to leave you hanging onto almost nothing at the end. I had to reread the last chapter several times, thinking maybe I was missing something. ”

Teachertraveler wrote this review Monday, August 1, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“Small, easy to read and just might blow your face off. With all the finger pointing in Washington and elsewhere, it's refreshing to be given tools that empower you rather than leave you the victim.

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Teachertraveler wrote this review Friday, July 24, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

0 of 1 members found this review helpful.

• Rated 5 stars

“Takes a totally different view of the English language than most books. By concentrating on the uniqueness of English grammar, McWhorter gives a much more enlightening and entertaining perspective on the English language.

Who knew 45 pages on "meaningless do" could be so fun?”

Teachertraveler wrote this review Friday, July 24, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 1 stars

“After the third sex scene in 20 pages, I gave up. I had hoped for a more, well, modern story rather than "Sexy Latina gets it on with socially awkward guys in Paris while cooking". ”

Teachertraveler wrote this review Friday, July 24, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“Light, fun, but ultimately just one man's opinion.

Some of his opinions were hilarious and spot-on. Others were head-scratchers. Why even bother to "review" the Old and New Testament if you're going to recommend skipping 90% of it and demeaning the rest of it?

Murnighan also recommended skipping over some of the best parts of Dante's Inferno and Austen's Pride and Prejudice while glowing over other snooze-enducing novels. Also remember he is, well, male and so what he believes is "sexy" might be different than say, a woman.

But overall, breezy beach reading that will peak your interest in rereading some classics while justifying your decisions to skip others. ”

Teachertraveler wrote this review Friday, July 24, 2009. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 2 stars

“I tried, I really did. I got about 100 pages in before I realized there was no way I was going to finish this. When they marketed it as the COMPLETE history of Sesame Street, I didn't realize that encompassed just about every children's television show in the 50's and 60's. It sounds weird, but the introduction describing Jim Henson's funeral were the best, but slogging through backroom discussions and producers' personal lives just wasn't that interesting. I wished they had put Jim Henson's personality in earlier in the book instead of going on and on about negotiations for this and research for that. ”

Teachertraveler wrote this review Friday, March 27, 2009. ( reply | permalink )