clarkissimo's reviews
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Loopier than the first book of the series. Fast-paced, globe-hopping, G-6 flying, knife-wielding, gun-toting, tea pouring, yippie-ky-A hoodoo. Bloody (literally) good fun. 

Genial and thoroughly entertaining snapshots from dozens of the writer’s collection of journals. 

Suitably sarcastic and bloody. Part Jack Reacher. Part John Wick. Ben Koenig is a ghost, but don’t go after the people he loves.

Globe-hopping spy hoodoo. Car-chases, billions at stake, and theirs a same. There’s always a dame. Loopy but fun.

The first 50 pages are a hoot, but the rest devolves into a series of farcical misunderstandings and nothing is resolved. Just a lot of weird stuff happens and then it’s over. Plus, not nearly enough Spock. If you want to read brilliant John M. Ford, I’d highly recommend his novel The Dragon Waiting.

I used this book least while reading Ulysses. I feel it is a book to read after reading Ulysses for the first time.

An indispensable guide—other books go deeper, but this one kept me on track in Ulysses. Plus, it’s quite funny.

Indispensable guide to the novel.