Very realistic... I wish there were more ...
355692
Very realistic...I wish there were more fruit and veggie varieties though so I can get them ALL.  My toddler soon to be preschooler loves these.  They are a really stiff thick plastic that have stood the test of time.  We've had them almost a year now.
131147
Looks very realistic.  Makes you shudder when you think of what your parents and grandparents dealt with.
2822813
I didn't grow up in ww2, but I lived on a naval base in California as a boy during the viet nam war.  behind our back yard was a military property where they would have target practice and other sorts of exercises (quite some distance from the fence, of course).  needless to say it was off limits but we'd sneak back there anyway, and sometimes had to fetch baseballs and kickballs.  i had always wondered what all was really going on back there.  we used to pretend we were soldiers and "spy" on the people back there from behind the tall weeds that grew up along the bottom of the cyclone fence.

This book brought all of that back into clear focus, as those were the last days of our innocence (before we moved out-of-state).  I think howie's imagination ran very vivid -- perhaps too vivid -- but then my dad was never on the front lines that i know of so perhaps that's more real than i can comprehend.  while not entirely realistic, i found this book to be a very accurate depiction of a childhood nestled amidst the confines of war and all its acoutrements.
2164393
Very realistically presented.  Present the probable effects of an EMP on various sectors of the community in addition to its effect on the primary characters.  Characters are likable
728604
Very realistic looking. Hope if I leave a stash in this can when I die, my kids so t throw it away! ;)
2025524
It was about as good of a tv show as one could want. Very realistic and dramatic, I wish it would go longer than five seasons.
4615035
It was intertaining, acting was great. Almost too realistic.
799387
I use this for active shooter/killer training.  It's not bad, but I wish it were a little more realistic!
4166130
Very realistic! A marvelous depiction of 2008-2013 so far.... I predicted it years ago, growing up in public schools made me appreciate the methods and power of the federal government to indoctrinate (dumb down) three generations of citizens to into the" governments people".
313518
It was a fantasy yet a very realistic portrayal about what our world has become ..brutal commercial, angry.. but in the middle of all this
There is a hope for a much better world. A fanciful and humerous ending...I enjoyed it immensely. Couldn't put it down once I started reading it.
4232451
I really loved the young man in this book and his coming of age story.  While I am older than he (I was sixteen in 1971) I could really relate to him coming into his own once he got a job and stepped outside the enclosed bubble of his family and Catholic school and started working in a place with people of lots of varied cultures who all managed to get along together and become a family. Not a parent in sight in this book which really gave you a chance to just experience Scott and his work friends/family without any interference from the older generation.  Lots of drugs which kind of made my eyes roll back in my head wondering how they could navigate with so much on board, much less drive cars around under the influence so much. However, it was very realistic in its depiction.  I'd love to see a sequel or two.  Any chance, Mr. Gray?
813912
I loved the 'Windup Girl'; this novel also delivered a somewhat grim look at a future where humanity has 'short sheeted it's own bed'.  However, I missed some of the more fantastical bits that were in included in WG....like genetically engineered beasts of burden and the constant onslaught of exotic diseases (of course, I studied genetics so that may not be as much of a gap for others).  In addition, I live in Arizona and nag my husband about every drop of water that he wastes....I'm going to make him read this.  The action is believable and there should be plenty of gunplay to satisfy you action addicts.  I recommend this, unless you like predictable happy endings...
4786514
The figures are realistic.  I would have like to have had fewer swimming Penguins and a few other types.  Having the name of each type stamped on the figure would help.
378311
So realistic looking ! I'm very pleased. I wish they offered more colors so I can get a set to match every room.
3998560
Like the other books of Steven Konkoly I have read, the story line has a very realistic ring to it. I am not savvy in the financial/stock market department, so in some passages, the info was beyond me. Over all, I enjoyed the book and am looking forward to any sequels that may be in the works.
2203851
Quite enjoyable and realistic....nice escapism and great fantasy but yet the kind if stories many would like to experience
274504
Humorous, suspenseful and, in a delightfully exaggerated way, very realistic.