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I really liked The Great Brain. Feels like something I would hand loved in school.

A Catholic family, with very Lutheran names, living in a very Mormon town has various childhood experiences like getting the first indoor bathroom, a new immigrant moves to town, the Jewish peddler settles down and starts a shop, kids get lost in a cave, and they frame the new one-room-schoolhouse teacher for drinking on the job because he uses too much corprul punishment.

The Great Brain in the title refers to the he middle child always screming a way to make money.

It definitely feels like something they would not allow to be read in public schools now a days, between discussing faith, stereotypes and going through a number of ways for a kid to commit suicide I don't think it will make a required reading list.

I liked this book. It was kind of hokey, but if you go in knowing that its fine for what it is. It was supposed to the be first book in a series that never got a sequel, so apparently not too many others liked it. It's the first work I'm aware of DeCandido did of his own, rather than the media-tie-in fiction is more well known. He's one of my favorites Start Trek authors.

The book revolves around the Super city Police Department. The city is so called because they have more superheroes than any one town in the D.C. universe ever did. Unlike Commissioner Gordon, the cops of the SCPD hate the superheroes, or "the costumes" a derogatory term they use. The cops get stuck trying to prove that Super villains are actually guilty of the crime that the superheroes have stopped them from doing, but of course all the evidence has been vaporized, and the heroes refuse to testify as it might damage their brand, or worse yet reveal their secret identify.

On top of that they get stuck uber nerds who think they can become their own superheroes, or super villains, and more often than not get themselves hurt.

The Claw is a serial murder who seems to show up ever 2 years or so and kill many people and then go into hiding. He seems to slice open his victims using a giant eagle talon, and since all the victims have the same DNA it would appear they are not copycat crimes.

A long and winding tale, complete with abusive husbands, cranky neighbors, and the like, we end up learning the criminal is an unlikely member of the community, but looking back on it a few days later, it actually should have been pretty obvious that is who it would have been.

Marvel has done many similar stories over the years of how the courts and insurance and the like deal with the aftermath of superheroes, if you want a previously unlicensed version, this one is for you.

wouldn't that have been something

,, i liked armada, but not nearly as good as clients other works that I have read including Ready Player one and Ready Player two. It really put me on a roller coaster of emotion, but not the good kind. At the beginning I had a strong Ready Player One feeling, which just happens to be in my opinion one of the best books ever written which just happens to be in my opinion one of the best books ever written. However is the story progressed I found that I really kind of got lost there the characters pointing out how dumb the antagonists were didn't help much either. Eventually I thought it could be better if the ending was good and then I thought of a way that the ending could have been awesome. The ending ended up being very different from what I thought and I was incredibly disappointed though I'm thought that I had a hold of it and was disappointed that I was wrong.

,, i liked armada, but not nearly as good as clients other works that I have read including Ready Player one and Ready Player two. It really put me on a roller coaster of emotion, but not the good kind. At the beginning I had a strong Ready Player One feeling, which just happens to be in my opinion one of the best books ever written which just happens to be in my opinion one of the best books ever written. However is the story progressed I found that I really kind of got lost there the characters pointing out how dumb the antagonists were didn't help much either. Eventually I thought it could be better if the ending was good and then I thought of a way that the ending could have been awesome. The ending ended up being very different from what I thought and I was incredibly disappointed though I'm thought that I had a hold of it and was disappointed that I was wrong.