© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-BBailey182 Recent reviews written by member BBailey182 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_474879659652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - Plenty of books have been written by White House press secretaries over the years. That's probably because they are a little more comfortable with words than the typical National Security Advisor. It's safe to say that there hasn't been a book written by... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474879659652 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:53:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474879659652?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472447880836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - While doing interviews, Bill Bruford always came across as one of the most articulate and intelligent people in music.Now that he's written an autobiography, it may be possible to drop the qualifier. Bruford might be the most articulate and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472447880836 Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:30:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472447880836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_466072669828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - Seeing how we are a nation of list-makers, it's very tempting for anyone to start writing down their favorite movies in some sort of order. What's your all-time best? Do you have a top 10? Top 50? Gail Kinn and Jim Piazza apparently couldn't help... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~466072669828 Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:53:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_466072669828?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_465338666628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - Ah, the Fight Doctor. Ferdie Pacheco is best known as Muhammad Ali's physician during most of the champion's career. He later did consulting work about boxing with NBC and Showtime. Meanwhile, he really is a doctor in South Florida with a thriving... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~465338666628 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:33:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_465338666628?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462246481540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - A few years ago, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a book called "Nickel and Dimed." She tried to make ends meet on a minimum wage (or close to it) salary, and found it wasn't so easy. "You Want Fries With That?" is a similar book, only much... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462246481540 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:49:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462246481540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462246219396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - It's an interesting idea that makes for an easy review.David Scott, American astronaut, and Alexei Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut, opted to write their autobiographies together. You can almost see the college-type essay, "Compare and contrast..." as... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462246219396 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:45:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462246219396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462246088324?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - Mac Nelson writes about U.S. Route 20 in his book, "Twenty West." It's a road that stretches, according to the text, from Massachusetts to Oregon for more than 3,000 miles.If you are looking at the road on a typical map, you'll notice that the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462246088324 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:40:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462246088324?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462245891716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - We all hold a certain fascination with the subject of traffic, particularly while driving somewhere. The questions come quickly. Is there a better way to move cars around the grid? What leads to accidents? What is traffic like in other parts of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462245891716 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:35:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462245891716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462245432964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - After the excitement of the start of the space program and the walks on the moon, we figured there would come a time when space travel would become routine. We'd think about a trip to earth orbit or beyond with little more than the thought now given to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462245432964 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:24:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462245432964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462187892356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - "Simplexity" is an extremely difficult book to describe.Sure is interesting at times, though.Author Jeffrey Kluger's subtitle is "Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple." He takes an object such as the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462187892356 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:34:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462187892356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462187499140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - The James Taylor song starts off something like "Damn this traffic jam. How I hates to be late. It hurts my motor to go so slow. Time I get home my supper'll be cold. ... "Traffic would seem to be an inevitable part of urban and suburban life in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462187499140 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:26:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462187499140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462141623940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - Sometimes it's nice to have an outside, objective viewpoint of your own situation. Such is the case with "Power Failure," which is subtitled "Politics, Patronage, and the Economic Future of Buffalo, New York." Residents of the area (that would be... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462141623940 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:37:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462141623940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462141361796?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - It turned out that Gerald Ford still had a lot to say to us, even after he left us.That might be the lesson of "Write It When I'm Gone," a nearly irresistible collection of conversations and quotes with former President Ford.They were... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462141361796 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:31:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462141361796?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462087556740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - It's always fun to read the Amazon.com reviews of a book on politics. Not surprisingly, the left and right wings bring their particular point of view to the table. If the author agrees with a particular point of view, he or she is brilliant; if not, he's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462087556740 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:16:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462087556740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462087360132?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - There's an interesting little fact in Alan Alda's second memoir, "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself," that puts his career in clearer context.When Alda started to work on the television series "M*A*S*H," he was offered a choice. He could... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462087360132 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:10:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462087360132?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462034734724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - Trying selling this combination to a publisher: a book that's partly about poker, partly about a murder trial.Good luck.That's the very short description of "Positively Fifth Street," and somehow it works. How well it works probably... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462034734724 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:09:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462034734724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462031982212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - Even by Vice Presidential standards, Spiro Agnew is a curious footnote to American history.Agnew was Richard Nixon's first Vice President. He was forced to resign his office when a history of illegal kickbacks from his days in Baltimore were... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462031982212 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:02:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462031982212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462031851140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - Remember Teri Garr?Of course you do, at least if you went to the movies in the 1970's and 1980's.Garr was played the cute, attractive female part in a number of top motion pictures, such as "Young Frankenstein," "Close Encounters of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462031851140 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:58:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462031851140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461976276612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - Reading the book "Microtrends" reminds me of a joke from the movie "Blazing Saddles," which won on television the other night.After Sheriff Bart defeats the evil Mongo, Bart refuses to take much credit for it. "Mongo was easy," Bart says,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461976276612 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:05:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461976276612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461975948932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - "Ten Minutes from Normal" is an autobiography from Karen Hughes, who worked full-time in the early years of the George W. Bush White House and who stayed on as a long-distance advisor after leaving. And the first point that jumps out about the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461975948932 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:01:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461975948932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461975359108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - It's starting to look like Keith Olbermann's American life really is going to have a long second act.Olbermann became well-known for his work on ESPN's SportsCenter more than 10 years ago. Indeed, he knows that high in his obituary will be the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461975359108 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:52:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461975359108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461975162500?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - Radio hasn't received another attention since television came along around 1950. The medium had to evolve quickly to cope with changes in technology, and it did ... in unimagined ways.During the past half-century-plus, radio also has been filled... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461975162500 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:46:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461975162500?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461935644292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - Paula Poundstone has a rather unique niche in American comedy.There aren't many female stand-up comics in entertainment, and she's been at it for 25 years. Poundstone is best known, somewhat sadly, for being picked up for drunken driving while... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461935644292 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:21:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461935644292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461935513220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - What's a rock tour like from the inside out?That's something of the premise of "Roadshow," a book by Rush drummer Neil Peart. It is set in the midst of the band's 30th anniversary tour in 2004, and takes us bounding -- on second thought, rolling... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461935513220 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:16:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461935513220?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_461932891780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BBailey182 - To borrow a phrase, this book had me at hello.Niagara Falls, New York, is just down the road from me, and it is by any definition a mess. Unemployment is high, toxic waste sites are everywhere, Niagara County's highest point is a landfill, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~461932891780 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:07:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_461932891780?linkin_id=8003929