brianreadsbooks's Reviews (820)

This one was much less humorous than his prior memoirs and delves into a dark portion of his life. It was well written and I could, sadly, relate. However, it's good to be aware before you read that this is no Sellevision or Running With Scissors. Go into with a different expectation.

I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of this "book," though I have no idea where I ended up at the end. I picked it up because of the incredible amount of art and design that went into the print edition (don't bother to read it as digital, it would lose its whole purpose). It's got two books within the book, carbon and photo copies, hand drawings, audio transcripts, and interactive paper folding, all of which somehow come out as legitimately necessary to tell this story. As you may read in other reviews, the end left me a bit baffled, and unfulfilled, but I still rate it highly for the overall journey.

I'm completely torn as to whether I loved, or was just completely annoyed by, this book. A little of both, so here's three stars.

It was okay. He created an interesting world where the definitions of science and religion are intertwined with magic. However the crimes and resolutions were pretty rote. The magic wasn't all that interesting and was described in a fairly clinical way. If you're into forensics, you might like this, as he basically replaced modern forensics with magical forensics, and made it a book. The characters were essentially Sherlock and Watson, with new names, in a different time period.