but his nauticals are terrible. I am tired of reading his books
358790
The plots are okay, but his nauticals are terrible.  I am tired of reading his books, especially because they are so expensive.  He is a square rig sailor lubber.
4672196
Look I quite liked Jack for one or two books, but his attitude, mindless wanderings and serious death wish is becoming boring. I am getting sick and tired of him. Get a job Jack and get a life.
3525482
I'm not going to beat around the bush. I don't like this particular author, Jonathan Glancey. Why? I've picked up a few books by him based on all the rave reviews, and every time there are little things he says here and there in them that rub me the wrong way. Sometimes he makes flippant marks, expresses some kind of bias, says something historically inaccurate or makes an obnoxious comment that lends you to think that he's kind of a jerk in real life.

This book of his is the one that kind of confirmed why I've always gotten some kind of unpleasant vibe from him. He casually mentions that one day when he was traveling in Egypt, he saw a man with a cart beating a donkey. He then went to "rescue" the donkey by punching the driver in the face. It's bad enough that Glancey relays this completely irrelevant story in a book about the history of cars, but he does it with a mixture of faux remorse and self-congratulation. This is the classic "jerkiness" of Glancey's personality coming through to the fore, something I always sensed in his other books but was in full display in this particular one. Once I read that story, I was completely turned off by the book and ever since then have been looking to unload it on someone else. It's not that he's a bad writer. He's such an unpleasant person to read, and the unpleasantness takes away from whatever merit he has as an author.

If there's anything good I can say about this book, it's that it has beautiful photographs and is nicely designed. But the text itself, forget it. You can find a better, more enjoyable writer to read than this one on the history of cars.
776501
I'm sure the author means well, but this is the same as his first book rehashed.  I will not be buying anymore in his series.
4562100
His novels are fine

This one is crap

Most of his thoughts are based on feelings and presuppositions instead of Gods word

Skip this one
2742360
After today I won't buy anymore of this guys books. He ends them at about three quarters of the way through and fills the rest with advertisements.
304370
I'm Irish and in the first chapter Dan brown depicted Irish soccer fans as thugs . This is insulting and untrue . The book itself is by far the worst of his books . You would need a degree in computing, engineering, chemistry and genetics to really appreciate it . as usual Robert Langton has a beautiful woman in tow ( predictable ) private jets etc . The description of Sagrada Familia is very good makes me want to see the Cathedral . I feel I wasted my money on this book
4632279
The good thing about the book was the tip of the hat to Modesty Blaise and Willy Garvin. I remember the books fondly. Unfortunately that is the only thing I can say positive about this book. I strongly dislike having someone tell me the the same thing over and over. Mr Stross is anti Christian. Fine no problem there no one would ever confuse me for one either but I don't want to read the same rant  page after page after page. It's boring and insulting the intelligence of the reader. Ironically enough his preaching made me feel like I was in Church being preached at and wishing I was somewhere else. I won't be reading any more of his books. If I want to be preached at I can go back to church.
989543
I read a lot of books. I do not mind the occasional grammatical error, as long as it doesn't detract from the overall story. This book teems with the type of errors that not only distract - they take away from the story as one tries to figure out just what the author intended to say. I rarely stop reading a book, but after this doozy - "He still had five kilometers to navigate the streets." followed a hack-like "bang!" and a "boom!," I had had enough. I simply gave up. There are plenty other authors doing books in this genre, and I'd say that although I wish him luck, I am done with reading works by this author.
3463338
I think that those books are the worse writing  by JJ Benitez.  I qualify 1 star just for loose his time writing it.
2974545
I must say that I am finished reading Thomas Horn authored books. Each one became progressively worse. In this book; he repeats something he wrote in another book to the tune of about 10 pages. Actually the best part of this book was the last 5 pages or so; the rest was a waste of time and money and sorry to say; he got me again as I wasted my good money and the little time I have left to read in its entirety this book. I once had a professor who made the statement about his final exam being a masterpiece of ambiguity and and I must say that exam was nothing compared to the mish mash of this. He never answered the questions I expected from the title of this book, but I did learn one thing; he wants you to buy his books and for me. No thank you.
3003590
I've been reading this series since the 3rd or 4th book came out.  It's time to stop buying them and start checking them out from the library just to "check in" with these characters we love.  The mysteries themselves are no longer interesting or logical.  They're vague, goofy, strained.  The timeline in Jury's world is murky as well.  I think he is in his 70s now based on the WWII childhood Grimes has described for so long.  So how on earth old is CarolAnne?  And yes, it seems Grimes is trying to lower Jury's age by saying his memories of his mother are faulty memories.  All that aside, the central mystery each time should be compelling and that simply isn't the case anymore.  So I'm not buying any more of these books that are taking up so much space on my shelves.  I'll skim them at the library then decide whether or not to actually check them out in the future.  This is really disappointing.
2055346
I get why people would like reading his books. They're easy to ready, simple, and he loves talking about drugs, alcohol and sex with woman. Great, except that it's written in the most boring and juvenile way. You could give the subject matter to any guy from 12 years old and up and he could recreate the book. He might even do a better job.

If you have ever read a book from a real author and then decided to give Bukowski a try you'll be stunned at how bad he is. The dialogue is simple, his writing style lacks any lyricism or poetry. The stories are so similar you wonder why you are still reading. I hated the author and his book that deserved to be 20 pages a the most. Let me finish by writing:
I bought the book. Read it. Wrote a review. Turned over and slept.

Now I'm an author!
516331
I discovered Randy Wayne White and the Doc Ford series shortly after the first book came out. The first few books were a delightful mix of Florida color, marine biology, and nice solid stories with believable plots and interesting characters. Then at some point the author seemed to run out of story ideas and suddenly it was revealed that Doc, the nice guy and reluctant detective, had an alter ego, that his work as a marine biologist was really just a cover story for his secret life as a covert operative, with dark secrets and an equally dark past. Since then it has a series of jumps over one shark after the other, culminating in this latest train wreck (pardon the mixed metaphors), which is probably the worst book I have ever read. The plot is just plain stupid, the characters are from the worst B movies imaginable, and the narration is just torture. About 40 pages are spent with Doc dog-paddling around an island at night endlessly thinking, re-thinking, speculating, and planning when he has no real idea what is actually going on, all while people are being killed on the island. I found myself hoping that a bull shark would happen by and put both of us out of our misery. I then imagined that the author could write 50 pages about Doc getting out of bed and making coffee, analyzing each step he takes to the kitchen, stopping to study his toenails, ruminating about recent events in his living room, agonizing over his choice of coffee cup, having an inner debate about the provenance of the coffee beans and whether using these beans would imply tacit support for the government of the country from whence they came, and then flashing back to his last visit to said country in his role as a super spy/trained killer when he had a torrid affair with the daughter of El Presidente and saved a village from rogue rebels fighting with corrupt soldiers for control of the cocaine trade. And when you got to the end of the 50 pages you would realize that only 30 seconds of real time had elapsed and he still hadn't made the damned coffee yet!

The sad downturn in these books really bothers me because I like the author and the earlier books so much --- heck, I had a Sanibel Biological Supply hat and bought 2 Afghan war rugs from his website!

I might go back and re-read the first few books in this series again sometime, but for now I say No Mas!
1681485
I have enjoyed quite a few of his books.  However, this set is horrible.  I quit Eren's Eyes and thought I'd try Captain Quad.  I quit that one too.

They were unbelieveable and just not good at all.  I didn't even read the 3rd one.  A total waste of time.  I guess a good author cannot write good all of the time.

I'll probably not try any more of his.
2907438
My god what an ego. If you have read any of his other books he pretty much repeats himself.  Stick to his first books they are much better.
1709440
I bought  this title on the strength of his first of the titles.  I won't make that mistake again.  I haven't finished this book and I doubt if I ever will.  Do not care for fantasy..sorry I bought this piece of trash.