This is an extensive look at the historic franchise, one we are still in the middle of somehow.

I imagine you could pick this or a number of other spy-thrillers at a bookstore (or more likely, an airport) and have the same experience.

Not since reading East of Eden have I felt like I was reading a masterpiece.

This has been a crucial series in our lives the last few years, but I think that reliance ends here.

I had multiple mini-existential crises, imagining all the things that could happen to us on this tiny blue pebble in the big dark forest.

I’m doing it. I’m giving a King book two stars, and I do so with a heavy heart.

No matter the page count, he’s a true master.

I think I stumbled upon not just an account of every Catholic pope and their papacy, but an entire history of Europe.

This has to be one of (if not the) definitive book about ancient Rome. If you only have time for one, it should be this one.

I will stick with Amor Towles through whatever else he gives us.

This guy’s got the mystery chops promised on the back cover.

This has the usual Stephen King formula for a heeby-jeeby heart-stopper, but just comes up short as a classic for me.

An unquestionably lovable book and series.

What the heck, where was this quality in the first three?

We all need someone like Hans Hubermann in our lives.

A great book for its genre, but not my style.