A thoroughly enjoyable short children's book introducing the basics of computing concepts -- or really, logical thought. Parts of it reminded me of some of the lessons in Neal Stephenson's [b:The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer|827|The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer|Neal Stephenson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388180931s/827.jpg|2181158].

As with the rest of the books in this series, the translation from script to Shakespearean style is a lot of fun, plus there are a lot of other "easter egg"-style in-jokes scattered throughout that often made me laugh. The reduction in stars for parts 1-3 of the set really isn't the author's fault, but simply due to the story problems in the source material, which, unfortunately, even iambic pentameter can't fix.

It took me a long time to get through this one -- I worked on it off and on for a couple years. It wasn't bad, and the story was interesting enough that I wanted to finish it eventually...it just didn't hold my attention very well, and I kept getting distracted with other books. While it gets your attention by being a book about Dracula, it soon becomes a book about _research about_ Dracula, and most of the book is reading about people reading about people reading about (yes, it often does go three levels deep) old accounts of Vlad the Impaler's life and death, and very little actually _happens_ for much of the book. I'm not one who needs constant action and excitement in everything I read, but breathless accounts of library research can only hold my attention for so long.

An incredibly, and at times exhaustingly, detailed account of the making of the first Star Trek film. If you're the kind of Trekkie/er that enjoys the real-world stories and behind-the-scenes info as much as the in-universe fun (and I definitely fall into that bin), this is well worth reading, and a worthy companion to Marc Cushman's three-volume "These Are the Voyages" series diving into the making of the original series.

I've never seen the film, so I can't make a comparison, but the book did not impress.