RaveThe Buffalo NewsThis book is hilarious, almost a comic-book tale pitting good versus evil, small versus large and independence versus establishment. The good guys here make fools of Vermont’s political leaders, outwitting them at every step ... Bill McKibben has penned an entertaining political satire, a delightful romp through Vermont’s hills and valleys ... All this nonsense creates a quick read, a delightful romp of a morality play that allows McKibben, a noted environmental activist, to make his points, including shots at our current White House occupant.
Bill James & Rachel McCarthy James
MixedThe Buffalo NewsThe Man from the Train is a beautifully written and extraordinarily researched narrative of a man who may have killed 95 — or more — people, dating back more than a century, mostly in small-town Middle America … James uses an interesting time structure here, teasing the reader first with the most notorious case, the killing spree that left eight people murdered inside a Villisca, Iowa farmhouse in June 1912. The author then puts that event into perspective, tracing the killer's path from 1909 to 1912 … It's the storytelling, the exhaustive research and the suspense over the killer's identity that keep you turning the pages of an otherwise too-long book.