grown-up books, encore
Jul. 3rd, 2006 08:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snugglekittyThis weekend, I finished The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley and Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
The Ordinary is Jim Grimsley's second book in the Kirith Kirin universe. I've enjoyed both books. This one carries the story further into the future and begins to explore where the country of Aeryn came from. I also love the continuing explorations of magic and time. However, it's incomplete. I wanted at least one more chapter. I sense a third book in the making. I enjoyed this one very much, though. Four stars.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Uncovers the Hidden Side of Everything was the kind of nonfiction that I enjoy. It was very readable and had a lot of interesting ideas in it. I never felt as though I was slogging to get through it. I had two main problems with the book. One was that it seemed like a novel-length expansion of the first collaboration of this economist and journalist - every chapter had a summary quote at the beginning, and each quote was taken from the same article. It could've been half as long and I would've still gotten all the ideas. The other is that there are places where I felt like the interpretation included some leaps. The data is clearly sound, but some of the conclusions felt a little forced. Nonetheless, it was a great book. Four stars.
The Ordinary is Jim Grimsley's second book in the Kirith Kirin universe. I've enjoyed both books. This one carries the story further into the future and begins to explore where the country of Aeryn came from. I also love the continuing explorations of magic and time. However, it's incomplete. I wanted at least one more chapter. I sense a third book in the making. I enjoyed this one very much, though. Four stars.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Uncovers the Hidden Side of Everything was the kind of nonfiction that I enjoy. It was very readable and had a lot of interesting ideas in it. I never felt as though I was slogging to get through it. I had two main problems with the book. One was that it seemed like a novel-length expansion of the first collaboration of this economist and journalist - every chapter had a summary quote at the beginning, and each quote was taken from the same article. It could've been half as long and I would've still gotten all the ideas. The other is that there are places where I felt like the interpretation included some leaps. The data is clearly sound, but some of the conclusions felt a little forced. Nonetheless, it was a great book. Four stars.