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I liked the story, the witty language, and the sad parts too. It takes imagination to tell a whole story in first person. And Stephen King is the man with the imagination!
This probably was a candidate for the short story collections, I am glad it stands alone. I like that it was a quick book to read, after reading 3 books with over 1000 pages in the last two months.
I can count on Stephen King to provide a new way to tell the great story.

This is a book about a serious addiction, describes many golf obsessed people doing golf-crazy things, and I see similarities to my life.
If you just play golf, this book might give you a few chuckles. If you are a golf nut, this book will give you ideas.
I will be shortly applying for membership at golfnut.com
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The book endorsement on the back cover of my paperback edition claims that Anne Rice surpasses Stephen King. I do not believe that to be true!
This is quite a long-winded tedious story that could have been much fewer pages. It might make for great movie/series or whatever, but took a long time to get rolling.
This is my first experience with a book by Anne Rice so I will accept that I might have had a better experience starting with some other story. There is a good chance I will not try another book by this author, however I am interested to sample the Mayfair Witches tv series. Lots of space to for the experiences of a hapless husband married to a witch; "Bewitched" anyone? (... I don't think so)

Not for me. There are a lot of statements in here, maybe the reader is to ponder and dissect each, and from that learn to think differently. I will keep looking.
It seems to be a book for a young person, someone without a lot of life experience.
This is the second book I have read from this author. I read a completely different book in between, to clear my mind. The content from both seems lean, I don't get enough to make a strong connection.

This is a book full of essays, but not 101 unique ones. Really its a smaller number, numerous essays that repeat the ~ eight core messages.
The topics center around relationships, for younger people I guess.
It didn't change the way I think, but I did find some nuggets along the way.

This is a great story, lots of angles, lots of terrain to cover. I didn't get the overarching moral message, but I like the journey and progression. I would not say this is a page-turner because that is an over-used phrase. I looked forward to returning to the book on every day that I could.
I look forward to the next Stephen King book that I will read.

I will make use of the tools from this book. I feel it could have been titled "think before you speak" but I don't mean that in a negative way. it is a good refresher for comm skills when the stakes are high.
It was part of a course I was part of, and because of limited time we did not read and examine every page. for me to read it after the course helped reinforce things, and I learned some new ones.

This was my first Alex Cross experience. I did not find this an exciting page-turner. The hacking descriptions were not quite accurate/believable/possible for me. But this is not a hacking book, so I let that slide.
It seemed to have a good flow until the end where a lot of loose ends were unexplained, but that must be the author wrapping up and getting us ready for the next book in the series.
I don't want to be negative on the book, I frequently read various authors, so the series thing is not for me.

I found this tougher to read. Many characters have a long three-part Russian name, as well as a handle/nickname, and can be referred to several different ways. And large parts of this book are written in huge run-on sentences. There are a bunch of historical words that I needed to look up, I like learning new words.
Also its new to me to read about a world without phones or any telecommunications. Maybe that is why the focus on the language, tone and body language used is so important.
I had this classic on my bucket list, glad to finish this long book. I will next pick up a fluffier book to restore my mind to baseline.

fun book, lots of imagination, I had trouble with the flow, bouncing from thing to thing in the beginning, and one story line at the end. I did not see either phase as really compelling, this did not pull me in with the big "can't put the book down" feeling.
it was good to see that they pulled the hoax within a hoax thing, which let me think that might be coming again.

I love this book, it is actually two novellas, named Low Men in Yellow Coats, and Hearts in Atlantis.
I suppose it is a coming of age book in a sense for both novellas. from 11 years old to 12 and college-age to a few years after that.
It is also a good book in that it references some other King epics. I recommend it for Stephen King fans.