Epinions Recent Reviews for Carlyle_NY

One of the nicest contemporary colognes ...

Thu, 8 Nov 2007 04:00:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - I'm addicted to cologne and in getting older I've look for scents that were not so much "perfumy" as they are fresh as well as long-lasting. This is one cologne that fits the bill. I never heard of it before walking through a department store and...

Good, Compact Receiver

Sun, 8 Feb 2004 01:39:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - People who love radio will eventually wind up buying a shortwave receiver, if only to find out what else is out there on the radio waves. The first-time buyer will also, very likely, enter these shortwave waters cautiously, not wanting to spend too...

Finally, a good pocket radio!

Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:36:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - You know you’re becoming an old fart when increasingly you don’t watch television, haven’t listened to a Led Zeppelin record (excuse me, CD) in ten years, and prefer almost above all things to sit in a chair, turn on the radio, and listen for...

Too much is never enough

Sun, 4 Aug 2002 22:51:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - The author of Lily Snow, Renald Iacovelli, has as much to learn about good writing as he has already learned about it. He has as much to develop as an artist as he has already developed as one. He has many excellences; and many faults. But the...

Required reading for parochial schools

Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:46:12 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - First, a word about Celine, the man. He was a violent anti-Semite during the Holocaust, and therefore at a time when any anti-Semite with a smidgeon of decency might have, at the very least, thought twice about his prejudice. Now, prejudice is a very...

An awesome intelligence

Sun, 2 Sep 2001 22:16:29 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - Nothing is more potentially boring than the "novel of ideas." The author who would write such a novel -- who would seek to represent an ideology or philosophy through fiction -- ought always to ask himself whether it might not be better to delve directly...

I'd love to do some painting, but I have to meet that chick first

Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:57:24 GMT
rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - By the time Dreiser had written The Genius in 1910, he himself had already been acclaimed as a major writer; and for some years earlier he had been noted as a man of considerable talent by a few but select group of editors and readers, --...

Mommy, why is that man staring at me?

Mon, 2 Jul 2001 18:11:29 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - It will have occurred to the reader who has read all or most of Thomas Mann's fiction that he had an appreciation for men who were physically beautiful. Or perhaps we should say, he simply appreciated the beautiful, whether it manifested itself in men...

Gee Whiz!

Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:06:43 GMT
rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - "If you would write a great book, you must write about a great subject," says Melville, somewhere, in these or similar words. As it happens, that is not true. The meanest subject in the world could be worked into a great book, were there talent enough...

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Sat, 16 Jun 2001 00:09:06 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - "She did not," Dreiser writes of Jenny Gerhardt, the heroine of this novel, "endeavor to explain or adjust the moral and ethical entanglements of the situation. She was not … endeavoring to put the ocean into a tea-cup, or to tie up the shifting...

The Nature of Being

Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:06:54 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - For a reviewer, beginning to write about Proust's In Search of Lost Time is rather like a theologian beginning a dissertation meant to explain the nature God: the sense of the grandness of the thing leaves one at a loss where to begin. For in all...

The Financier; or, the Life of a Steam Engine

Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:34:56 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - It is a testament to the force of literary talent, or rather to those forces in literature that constitute something more than talent, that subjects ordinarily dry can be made interesting, and often compelling. On the other hand, there are some things...

Sister Carrie: or, The Degraded States of America

Sun, 3 Jun 2001 18:40:39 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - Many of the "pros" of this book walk hand-in-hand with its "cons": on the positive side, the characters are as alive and present as any author ever created them; on the negative side, that depiction of Americans and American life is startlingly...

Rolfe: The Great Unknown

Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:09:40 GMT
rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - Frederick Rolfe, the self-styled "Baron Corvo" on many of his works, was a peculiar Englishman who, for all his bad personal fortune, had the good fortune that writers do not have these days: a public who relied on books for entertainment, and...

Is Frank Norris Pedestrian?

Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:36:45 GMT
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Carlyle_NY - There is, for someone who has never read his work, and even for those who have, something a little too common, too pedestrian, about his very name, Frank Norris. He might have been barber, a fireman, a postman. Instead, he was one of America's great...