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Paul Jesse pauljroberts — No stars!...can you give a book negative stars?

Salman Afzal salmanafzal — I've been saying to people - it would be very easy to reduce the illustrations and design aspects of this novel to gimmickry, if they weren't backed up by seriously good writing. Which they are, so it ends up being something right up my alley - a great novel with interesting, quirky visual elements. There were turns of phrase that made me warm inside. The characterization of TS was wonderful - though he and his parents are the only real characters, I think, and his parents are only half-known, in the way that children know their parents. (The rest of the characters are just foils, not real people.) That makes this such an insular, and yet also a universal experience. The lack of temporal markers in Montana was curious only when they did show up - Sour Gummi Tape. Nostalgia for cowboys, for kids growing up in the open, for riding the rails, even - coming up against the real allure of McDonalds and also the length of shorts - he wants this to be timeless or boy-out-of-his-own-time? - that I questioned this made it weird. Also, the parts of his mother's journal were interesting and important, but like AS Byatt, I found myself wanting to skip it and get back to the real stuff (though I didn't, because he was far less tiresome than she is). The plot is shaky in parts, and the pacing is irregular...these are things I'm willing to chalk up to "first-time novelist". The ending doesn't quite match the beginning (I know it's highly implausible from the start, but a real-seeming situation makes its way into movie-script hijinks by the time TS arrives in Washington), but the entire trip was definitely worth it in order to know the voice of TS. The core of what's there - a boy's becoming a man, family relationships, how to get the inside of your idiosyncratic head to relate in some real way to the universal outside...in addition to the fate of "science" as a pursuit in our time - all that is good. Um, also, TS includes within his top nine movies: "Flight of the Navigator", "The Explorers", "Batteries Not Included", "Sneakers", and "Microcosmos"...(a) this guy is definitely from my era. It will be interesting to see what he comes up with next.

Braelyn Snow brsnow20d83b — Didn't like this one as much as the others. Not sure why, maybe it just felt like a re-tread of the others, no real new ideas. Still a fun little series.

Juan Oropeza jloropez — I loved it. When do I get the next book?