Reviews for Popper and economic methodology

The average rating for Popper and economic methodology based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-05-22 00:00:00 Julian Young I actually fell asleep yesterday while reading this book. That should tell you something. It was just a completely lackluster story. The plot was dull, the romance utterly dull, and the characters moderately dull. There wasn't really anything I found particularly interesting. The Widow is about a widowed woman (shocker, right?) who is now a Boston homicide cop. Seven years ago, on their honeymoon, her FBI agent husband was murdered while they stayed in his childhood home on an island in Maine. Abigail has never been able to forget what happened back then. She's never stopped wanting to know who cold-bloodedly killed her husband and why it happened. But in the seven years, she's never been able to discover anything. Then on the anniversary of their wedding, she gets a mysterious phone call that makes her more determined than ever. So she decides to head back to Mt Desert to see what she can find out. Once their, she runs into Owen Garrison, a man with as much tragedy in his past as she has. And he seems to be the only one around who doesn't want her gone. But as Abigail searches for answers, things only seem to get more confusing. For me, this book was only barely interesting and engaging. Mostly, it just bored me and I had to keep forcing myself to pick it up and keep reading. The book as a whole was just really slow-moving and never seeming to get anywhere. I kept reading and reading and nothing was happening except these small little things that don't give the plot any momentum. You could probably cut out the middle of the book and not miss anything important because basically the story just goes around and around the same information. And I got tired of hearing the same facts stated over and over again. Even the suspense regarding the antagonist identity didn't work for me. The author put so much effort directing attention to one specific character that when it turns out to be someone else, it was just like, ummm...okay? And the reason why? Well, that was out of the blue. Some clues to that earlier in the book would have been nice. Even worse, though, was that the romance was completely and utterly flat. It's like 250 pages (out of 330+) before anything interesting happens between them, and even then, it was just awkward. I think they shared one kiss earlier and when it happened, all I could think was 'that was weird' because it came from nowhere. I didn't feel any build up between them, and almost no chemistry. And they're acting like there's this thing developing between them and I didn't feel it at all. Then the ending between them was really lame and didn't give me any sense as to where they were headed as a couple. It didn't help that I found the characters (Abigail and Owen) a bit dull and one-dimensional as well. I mean, you knew all these facts about them, but it was surface stuff. I never felt like I really knew these two characters. Which didn't help the romance aspect either because I didn't know them real well, and they didn't know each other much either. So overall, this book flopped for me. It wasn't so utterly awful that I wanted to throw it against the wall and add to my small DNF pile, but it's not a book I'd recommend to others. And it'll make me think twice before reading this author again (which sucks because I have at 2 more of her books in my TBR mountain...)

Review # 2 was written on 2013-09-09 00:00:00 Jason Mangawan The Widow 3 Stars Seven years following the murder of her FBI agent husband on Mount Desert Island, Abigail Browning, now a detective with Boston PD, receives an anonymous phone call suggesting that strange things are happening in the quiet island community. With the help of search and rescue expert, Owen Garrison, Abigail stirs up old memories and old ghosts in her determination to expose a dangerous killer. Will she discover the truth before she becomes the next victim? More of a mystery than romantic suspense. Nothing much happens for the first 2/3 of the book as various characters are introduced, and their relationships with each other and their connections to Chris Browning are rehashed over and over. The investigation is rather lackluster as neither the local police nor the FBI seem particularly interested in capturing Chris's killer. Although minor clues are interspersed haphazardly throughout the narrative, the obvious red herring distracts from these and make it difficult to determine the killer's identity and motive. Owen and Abigail's romance is secondary and there is no real foundation to their attraction. Their chemistry is non-existent and they mostly appear to be going through the motions of falling in love without actually doing so. There is a wonderful potential for conflict stemming from Abigail's unresolved feelings for her murdered husband and the fact that Owen is one of his oldest friends, but this never materializes. All in all, a good premise but the execution is dull and uninspired. This author is not for me.