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I really liked the TV show (bad acting aside) and had high hopes for this series. And, you know, I'll probably keep reading it, but only when I can get the books for free. I get the sense that Butcher is a bit of a misogynist, or at least a much firmer believer in strong gender dichotomies than I am. His writing's also a bit choppy and cliched.

I'd use it for beach reads, or days when you want something really fluffy.

This was incredibly depressing, but very good.

The book was well-written and broadened my horizons, and I would certainly recommend it; that said, the style in which it was presented (a series of vignettes, going backwards in time, each from the perspective of a different person) was not really satisfying for me, personally, to read.

A really powerful and wrenching book, exploring the darker sides of human behavior in an almost post-apocalyptic setting. The writing style's a bit off-putting, at first (like Cormac McCarthy's The Road, only well-done), but once you get into it, it is very hard to put this book down. Or to stop thinking about it.

This book was filled to the brim with sexist tripe and complaints that most of us, to be completely honest, do not have enough money to begin thinking about making. I could not stand it. (In the interest of full disclosure, I should admit that I could not tell whether she was trying to be satirical--which would make some of the sexist nonsense a lot more forgivable--or if she was speaking in earnest; I thought the first for a while, but her tone changed drastically in the last chapter. Who can say?)

At any rate, I don't believe in throwing away or burning undamaged books, but I also wouldn't want anyone else to have to read it, so I'm unsure what to do with the copy I wish I hadn't bought. I wish I could give it less than one star, anyway.

Everyone should read this book, no exceptions.

Hoo boy, was this an awful book. There were some really cool concepts that King just chose outright not to explore, instead focusing on ... you guessed it: the gross-out. The movie was just as bad.

I enjoyed this book more than I had expected I would, honestly, when I started it. The dialogue is witty, and I found that I really cared about the main characters by the end.