Not sensitive, so painful to write for me and my teacher. So slow
589521
Not sensitive, so painful to write for me and my teacher. Cannot share to Evernote because it is So slow. God bless you. Please stop selling. Make better ones and sell. $600 so expensive s***. I will have and help other victims.
706125
27 PPM? Yeah right. This thing is beyond slow. If I want to print a 15 page document, I have to allocated a better half of an hour. Didn't  bother buying new ink. It's that bad.
20399
Sounds like a 78rpm transfer using a cactus needle.  Five minutes was all I could take.  Music itself?  Couldn't tell.  My ears hurt.
3657932
Not at all comfortable. I could barely write straight, even after practicing at it for a few days. It might work for others, but it looks like a gimmicks to me. Otherwise, the construction seems solid and it has a nice texture to it.
2447928
This is the worst writing I've ever tried to suffer through! Sentences are supposed to have verbs for crying out loud. It is completely disjointed. Half the time, I can't tell who is talking or thinking. Characters are so obscure and homogeneous, they all sound the same. I can't believe they actually released this. I've never read anything by Chuck Wendig and, after this, I never will. Honestly, my 11 year old writes better than this.
1568744
The writing in this novel was so simplistic it could be read by a first-grader. Of course, you probably wouldn't want to expose your gradeschooler to the body shots, groping, and girl-on-girl-to-please-a-guy, so I wouldn't actually recommend this book for teaching children to read.  However, if you are looking for a book to help illiterate adults learn to read, this may not be a bad choice.  Of course, there is no real romance in this book, because the characters barely converse.  They stare endlessly at each other, then make out, but don't actually connect.  They do each have a backstory of pain and tragedy, if you can bear the terrible writing long enough to get to it.

I am glad that this book was available via KindleUnlimited, so I didn't have to pay for it.  Maybe it got better.  I could only stand the dreadful writing for 30 minutes and gave up about 1/3 in.  I won't be following this series.
3014230
my kids hate learning. and it doesnt have special 'thing' to get them to work on this one. i think its just me. im not a good teacher.
4161140
They look nice and the pen part works well enough -- i.e. it writes -- but the stylus is not sensitive at all and I have to press down extremely hard on my iPad for it to work.  I definitely cannot write naturally with this.  Other styluses I have used have been far more sensitive.
3219429
Use thin marker to write. Regular, fine pens/pencils take longer because it's not very smooth.
4895952
you must be kidding!

Your pain to write in italien became my pain....your sufferings could be  more private,NOT INTERESTING!!
To think that I have actually ordered it,annoying,would like to read your other works,but I am afraid to throw more than one book in the trash.
258342
This thing is annoyingly stupid and slow. It was given as a gift for my daughter and honestly, it frustrates her (and us) more than anything. We have an iPad mini for her, so we'll stick with that. We feel so guilty that someone spent so much money on such a useless thing. It lags so much, even if you want to just draw. Absolute garbage.
1582776
Thought this would write smoothly but it doesn't feel comfortable at all. It doesn't even feel like a medium point pen!
1572620
I'm using this keyboard to write this review.  I didn't buy this from Amazon but I felt compelled to write a review to get the word out.  This keyboard becomes very slow and will only type half of the letters you write.  The only solution to the problem is to unplug the USB transmitter and plug it back in.  You'll have to repeat this process as the problem is persistent. it's really annoying.
1553689
I have to confess that I intensely dislike any novel that is written in the style that this one is.  Rather than using description and telling a story that has happened, this one uses  an active-present voice.  I understand this is perfectly a perfectly acceptable form of writing, but for some readers, it is as grating as fingernails on a chalkboard.

  From page 9:

"Yes, Gita." I lean toward her and smile too quickly. "Yes exactly." I want to be some kind of vessel that the girls can speak things into. Anything. I just want them to talk. Moona says something fast to Gita - In Hindi? Then she sizes me up...."

I sized up the main character, Willie, short for Willow, and found I just could not care enough about her to even listen to her tale. The  wanders the City of Lights is interesting at first, but we can forget the street by street directions, thanks.  It is a meander like this that just makes it too difficult for me to plod through. I really wanted to like this book, but I could not get past my intense dislike of too much detail in some cases, and not enough forward momentum in the story.
1457683
I dabble at writing. The first few pages are so painful in the use of tense I had to stop. Full stop.
4741993
It pains me to say this, given how much I was looking forward to this book, but reading this thing physically hurts.  I will admit I'm only 40 pages in, but each paragraph brings a wince, a jolt of agony, incredulity, frustration.

Not at the story itself, but at the ghost writer's style.  First of all, she seems hell bent on mythologizing Maynard at all costs, to the point that every archetype is trotted out -- before Maynard is even 10.  "The Loner,"  "The Sensitive Artist," "The Savant" and so on. The early chapters are polluted with her constant assertions of hidden meanings in every interaction.  Her vocabulary and phrasing choices when writing about his days training in cross-country would be more fitting of The Odyssey than a description of high school boys plodding along for miles on a dusty road.  Always Maynard's presence is heroic, meaningful, significant.  Other times she quotes verbatim dialogues people in Maynard's 9 year-old presence were said to have produced, as though young Maynard were busy writing it all down for posterity while the adults around him were yammering on.

It's insufferable.  At her best, she's overly romantic and duly dedicated to a saccharine prose style (think 400 level creative fiction class). At her worst - which is more often the case than not - she borders on unintentional parody.  All of this at the expense of the story itself.  Which, when you unearth it from her tedious prose and worn out motifs, is compelling.

Maynard is a bad-ass.  He just is.  Because of this, a straight-forward (and I hesitate to go gender here, but a more) masculine style would have more effectively rendered his tale.  Maynard isn't about gaudy ornamentation or affectations of "high art."  It's a shame his story teller is both of those, boring, predictable things.

Anyway, I'm holding my nose and guarding my sensibilities and muscling through her horrid, overly perfumed prose only because of my interest in Maynard's story.  Maybe it gets better?
1205624
While I LOVED the idea behind this book, the actual writing involved was painful. I adhere to the idea of "so many books, so little time". Therefore, if I can't focus on or remain interested in what I'm reading, I move on to the next. Reached 12% before I have up