Epinions Recent Reviews for BartvanHerk

Works very well with a bit of care.

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:27:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BartvanHerk - This little unit changed my office from a mess where I couldn't find anything in foot-high stacks of paper to a tidy room in a bit more than a week. Finally I can throw away all those "documents" that I knew almost with certainty I would never read...

Spaceship Medic: somewhat juvenile

Wed, 17 May 2000 10:44:29 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author BartvanHerk - Space opera about a newly-qualified ship's doctor forced to assume command

as his on-board superiors are all wiped out together in an accident when a

meteorite hits their Mars-bound passenger spaceship. Straightforward rocket stuff in which the...

take it off!

Mon, 8 May 2000 06:24:45 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author BartvanHerk - My favourite gripe about almost anything to do with Walt Disney is that they take a classic story, typically full of deep meaning and with both tragic and comic elements, and proceed to turn it into a sugary syrupy coated one-size-fits-all story which...

does just what it should, reliable workhorse

Sun, 30 Apr 2000 06:14:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BartvanHerk - I have had one of these for about 3 years and 6 months now, and use it on a daily basis for faxing and printing; occasionally for scanning and copying. My usage volume is not very high, a few sheets per day on average. It hasn't let me down yet. I picked...

Annotated Alice in Wonderland: a mindleap too far

Sun, 30 Apr 2000 05:11:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author BartvanHerk - This is an edition of Lewis Carroll (C.L. Dodgson)'s 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' plus 'Through the looking-glass', with the original pictures (which I found a bit scary and unpleasant as a child) with annotations by the unbelievably productive mr...

Beyond the pale

Sun, 30 Apr 2000 04:57:07 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author BartvanHerk - There has been a revival of interest in the sciences among people whom you would not normally suspect of such musings, what with their being 'into' philosophy, meditation, eastern thinking, age of aquarius, new age, Gea hypothesis, you know the sort of...

riveting stuff

Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:54:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author BartvanHerk - J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (This is the title of this book in the UK - apparently, 'philosopher's stone' was considered too erudite for an American audience). A first book by a new author, and very successful. Harry seems an...

Clever but wrong

Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:16:06 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author BartvanHerk - Professor Penrose is a mathematician who has had some very surprising ideas in his lifetime and I have no doubt at all that he is much cleverer than I am. Nevertheless when reading his book I feel a constant sense of wrongness in nearly every sentence...

A joke milked dry

Sat, 29 Apr 2000 10:38:07 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author BartvanHerk - Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless. ("Part five in the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy of four.") Funny (of course no book by DA can be really bad), but not nearly as good as especially the first two parts. I found that the Dirk Gently...

The Golden Torc: A good read

Sat, 29 Apr 2000 09:53:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BartvanHerk - Humanity has reached a higher stage of evolution and formed a telepathic alliance with a number of other intelligent races. Some humans on earth, social misfits mostly, go back to the pliocene age - a one-way trip through an accidentally discovered time...

Small, pretty and effective

Sat, 29 Apr 2000 07:07:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BartvanHerk - This camera is marketed in Europe under the name of 'mju' (the greek letter), not as 'stylus'. I selected it after lugging around a large old-fashioned Minolta SLR for many years and wanted something small that I could slip in my pocket or at any rate...

YB-P2000: Small and pretty

Sat, 29 Apr 2000 06:48:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BartvanHerk - Looking for a not-too-expensive shortwave receiver I stumbled on this one as a special offer for around $80 (in the Netherlands). I understand it is rather more expensive outside Europe.

It is beautifully styled with silver finish and a leather flap...