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Tomi J _aa2d — this series just gets better and im only 2 books in. i love Stephanie - shes a great heroine. hope she gets it together with Morelli in future books. Grandma Mazur is hilarious. and i still have 15 more books to go - cant wait

Rimantas Pocius _imantas — You just have to finish it!

Joe Manzo jmanzo — Het eerste boek was wat te gefragmenteerd door de vele 'short stories', waardoor de rode draad te veel naar de achtergrond werd gedrukt. Maar zodra het 2e boek begint gaat het los. Wat mij ook bevalt tov het vorige (min of meer) vergelijkbare SF boek wat ik heb gelezen (Collector) is dat het hier veel minder geforceerd overkomt. In Collector leek het alsof de schrijver je zijn 'geniale' wereld en afkortingen etc door de strot wilde duwen. Waardoor ik me er te bewust van bleef dat het allemaal verzonnen was, het las niet lekker. Bij dit boek voelde het veel en veel natuurlijker aan. Ja, het is sci fi en dat merk je wel, maar het is minder KIJK MIJ EENS SCI FI ZIJN WOOHOO, en meer een natuurlijk feit waar niet moeilijk over gedaan wordt. Niet overdreven veel uitleg, als iets niet duidelijk is kom je er gaandeweg wel achter. Vlot geschreven boek wat constant een aangenaam tempo heeft, op het einde na wat alsnog een beetje plotseling komt.

Walter Johnson _ohnson217 — Basic premise is the USA could be energy independent in 10 years by going with alcohol rather than petroleum based economy. He suggest using both Ethanol (but admits to replace all USA oil consumption would require all 4x current agricultural output) and methanol. I have not heard much about methanol. It is about ½ as energy dense as gasoline (and 2/3 as much as ethanol). But it can be made from Coal and Natural Gas very easily. It costs around $0.93/gallon currently, so without subsidy it would be $1.86 per gallon. Which is slightly higher than current (March 2009 price for gasoline is $2.00 at the pump but includes a $.050 road taxes which leaves gasolean about $1.50). When this book was written Gas was at $3.00, so Methanol was very competitive. The best part of the book covered the Brazilian history. Basically, the country went to Alcohol from Sugar Cane in the 70s due to the fall of sugar prices (70% drop in prices in 1975) and the rise in oil. First, they mandated 10% ethanol mix. Then 15% to a maximum of 24% for conventional vehicles. Then they started to push ethanol cars. The state oil company was ordered to add ethanol pumps at each service station. Then oil prices skyrocketed in 1979 and then the market share of ethanol cars went to 30%. By 1986 oil prices crashed and made oil cost less than ethanol. Brazil was in trouble with the IMF by subsiding ethanol but kept a 20% mixture. Now they are pushing flex fuel vehicles and now these vehicles at 100% of the new car sales. Brazil is now a net exporter of energy. Another interesting piece was on Hydrogen as a fuel. Too expensive to generate (There is no hydrogen free in the environment. It is bonded with Oxygen (water) or Carbon. Hydrogen creates a lot of energy by mixing with Oxygen, so you need energy to separate it.) The problem of the book is the politics and economics. Most of it is re-treading ground covered by many others - Saudi wahibilism and Saudi support for Madras’s worldwide. It then covers Saudi influence on USA politics. Weak research, mostly secondary sources if they are footnoted at all. Further the actual technical stuff seems to have been pulled from another book titled, "The Methanol Economy", but have not read the original to confirm.

Kristine Charlotté kristinedalgaard — I hope this man becomes president.

Oscar M oscquiles — "ALL OF US HAVE ATLEAST ONE SAME CHARACTER AZ THE POOR DOG"