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It was a great story, which surprised me! I was afraid that it would sound like his "Swarm" series, but the story is completely different! I'm now excited to "read" the rest of the books in the series!

I've been a Nintendo fan since I got the Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas back in 1987, but I've never known much about the company itself. It was entertaining to find out about the behind-the-scenes stuff that made the company into what it is today.

I loved Bone Shop and Blood Engines, but this one dragged in the middle, which almost made me return it! I'm glad I listened through the middle, though, because I enjoyed the end a lot! I'm just not sure if I want to read another Marla Mason title.

This was a great story, and a great beginning to a fantastic audio book trilogy!

Like "Jude the Obscure," by Thomas Hardy, this is NOT a happy story, but unlike that book, which I absolutely HATED, I really enjoyed "The Casual Vacancy." This story of a small town in western England has hardly a hint of romance, but plenty of foul language, death, sex, betrayal, and drug abuse; there's even a bit of incest, just for good measure. Everyone has their problems, but all the people mentioned in this book have serious amounts of disfunction.

In the end, all the people that come out of the situation relatively unscathed aren't left any better than they started. And, again, this was a GREAT book, because Ms. Rowling tells the tale in a way that makes it a fun listen. It left me thinking, "My life's pretty darn good, comparatively speaking."

I don't, however, recommend this book for anyone under the age of 30. You need some perspective to be able to read this book and not be effected negatively by it.

That all being said, I'm hoping for a sequel! There are a lot of characters here that I want to follow to find out how messed up their lives will become as they try to deal with some of the things that were unresolved!

This book was really helpful to me as I'm trying to come up with new ideas all the time. My only criticism would be that the book's too short! Additional examples would have been great; they could have helped to drive home the points made.

Overall, this is a MUST READ if you're looking to come up with some ideas, but are having trouble generating any!

I always enjoy reading books about how companies came to be, but this one was especially enjoyable because I've been a HUGE fan of PIXAR's movies since I saw Toy Story in theaters back in 1995.

Granted, the book ends with Disney's acquisition of PIXAR in 2008, but the backstory of it's founders and the company's origin were what I was really looking to learn about. It's a quick, but not brief, listen. Enjoy!

It was a great listen, I think, because I'm a huge fan of the TV series. I had faces to attach to characters already. The only difficulty was assigning the names, which are different than the show, to the faces that I already have in my mind's eye.

It's an entertaining, hilarious and nostalgic romp through the 1980s via a near-future and semi-apocalyptic USA.

This was a very clever melding of real journal entries and fiction! It made me want to read his first book, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."