It gave this investor hope that he can beat the market. (1/2009)

Too many elements for me to not like: a fascinating setting (Morocco), daddy-daughter connections with the narrator being the same age as my daughter, and a short book. (1/2009)

I don't have to read "The Secret", as I got it here in parable form. Barf. (2/2009)

I needed them to color code the text based on what is believed to be true and what isn't. But now I know who Marco Polo was. (2/2009)

I can hardly imagine having locusts so dense that they eat away your broom handle as you shake it at them. But this book was far too long ... there's a good story here, but it would have made a better magazine article. (2/2009)

I hoped to find a short story that I read when I was 12, but it wasn't in here. (2/2009)

I only found the mini-biographies embedded in the book interesting ... the topology was too abstract and unpractical, even for me. (3/2009)

Great read. Unbelievably, Hollywood is hardly exaggerating how cutthroat this world is. (3/2009)

I'm not a character development sort of guy ... I like new ideas. Nothing about this book appealed to me. (4/2009)

I wanted to hate the book for the first hundred pages, as Palahniuk is so dark, but it actually was quite stimulating, and ... (dare I say it?) ... fun. (4/2009)

I'm sure a few of the players are not happy about some of the stuff in this book. You've got to applaud the transparency of the Suns organization. (6/2009)

Lots of fun stuff, but it needs an editor to throw out about half the book. (6/2009)

A fun read, even though the author is very unsympathetic. (7/2009)

This person was king and then this person and this person and so on. (7/2009)

I guess we all bring our own filters to a read and only appreciate the parts that make it through that filter. To me, this seems about as good as a Vonnegut or Palahniuk (which means good!) ... accessible & powerful. But I'm surprised that this is a Booker winner ... maybe Adiga presented it in a way that made it pass through the highbrow filter. (7/2009)

I don't understand why more people aren't fascinated by PKD's VALIS stuff. A gifted communicator either (A) goes crazy or (B) is visited by God. And he uses his medium (fiction) to communicate what the experience was like. (8/2009)

Every author should be like Kundera and write parenthetical paragraphs to explain themes and symbolism. His choice to use adultery to contrast relationships and interactions was surprisingly illuminating. (8/2009)

The themes are amazingly current for a seventy year old book. (9/09)

I can't figure out why I dug this so much. It's not particularly deep. The satire is not that funny. And yet I finished it in two days and enjoyed every moment. I guess my childhood love of comic books still has a hold on me. (10/2009)