Epinions Recent Reviews for CurtisEdmonds

Decoding Love: Flirting Research

Sat, 7 Feb 2009 10:43:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - I wish I knew the man's name, so I could credit him, but I don't, so I can't. He'd responded to an article someone had written in the local paper about why men weren't more romantic. His idea was that what you needed was a romantic playbook...

Tropicana Atlantic City: Debts No Honest Man Can Pay

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:39:23 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - You are, of course, an experienced and sophisticated traveler, and you know - indeed you do - that your average casino sees you as a walking dollar sign. That's it. They don't see you as a guest, or a customer, or even as somebody that they...

Colony Club: Blame It On The Rain

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:07:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - Before I even start, look, yeah, everybody knows that you're not supposed to go to the Caribbean in hurricane season. But we checked. We really did. We went to the National Hurricane Center website and everything, and they said there...

Sheraton East Hartford: Water Hot Is A Noble Thing

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:55:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - Many years ago, I was traveling through the woodlands of Northern Louisiana, which was the style at the time. I spent the night at a sleep spot off Interstate 20, a Red Roof Inn, I think it was. Everything was fine until the next morning, when I...

Sheraton Columbia: Buzz

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:31:12 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - This is going to be a short review, but I can't help that, because there isn't that much to say. It is not going to be overly consumerly helpful, or tell you about all the wonderful features of the hotel. It is, instead, a warning, a shot across the...

Westin Casuarina Las Vegas: Expect The Ordinary

Sat, 31 May 2008 15:00:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - Look, you can spend a lot of money in Las Vegas, enough so that I don't have to tell you about the $14 bowl of gelato that I bought, pretty much by accident, at the Caesars Palace mall. And you don't have to be Charles Barkley or Pacman Jones to do it,...

FTD.com: Use. Your. Local. Florist. Instead.

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:03:00 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - Look, it can happen to anybody. It happened to me, of course, so I'm writing about it, and you're reading about it. But it can happen to anybody. It's not like I did this at the last minute, either. I put my order into the FTD website back in...

Sheraton Boston: On Balance

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:24:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - This happened twice. Not just once. I could understand it if it happened once. But twice, for the love of God, that's just asking too much. And it's my own fault, really, but -- well, let's not go into that just yet. We were in the Club...

San Carlos Hotel: I'll Take Manhattan

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:12:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - The first time I was in New York was in, oh, 1997 or so. I took the bus from LaGuardia -- the one that drops you off in Harlem -- and took the subway from there all the way down to Battery Park, where I missed the last ferry to Liberty Island. It was...

Adam's Mark Denver: Deal With It

Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:18:52 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - The big complaint I had about the Adam's Mark in Denver was the thing with the umbrellas, and that wasn't even my complaint. My wife and I were in Denver for a week, and it rained practically the whole time, and she went to buy an umbrella at the gift...

Wyndham Aruba Beach Resort and Casino: Westin Aruba Beach Resort and Casino: With The Wind

Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:11:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - First, there's the thing with the name, and that has to be gotten out of the way before anything else. Right? Right. The property we're talking about used to be the Wyndham. That's how we got around the island, anyway. "Take us to the...

Sheraton Baltimore Inner Harbor: Walking Distance

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:18:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - Yes, we could have taken the car. Baltimore isn't that far from where we live in Central Jersey, and it's right on I-95, and we certainly could have driven, no problem. But gas is three dollars a gallon -- it's three and a quarter in downtown Baltimore...

The Savannah: Our Beautiful Island

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:32:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - I don't know where you are, or what you're doing, but I expect that you're planning a vacation. Or at least I hope so. Because I really don't want to tempt you by writing extensively -- fulsomely, really -- about Barbados if you're not planning on...

Wyndham Baltimore - Inner Harbor: Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor: Center Stage

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:26:06 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - Let us stand, together, where I was standing not so long ago, in the center of a hotel room, and let me describe to you what we see. You are facing the television, which is one of those godforsaken things that, when you turn it off, reverts to the...

Celebrating Interfaith Marriages: Something Old, Something New

Sat, 13 May 2006 13:44:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - "Interfaith marriages," Rabbi Lerner says, "are a fact of life." To which I can attest. I'm a Southern Baptist communicant; my beautiful bride is Jewish, and we got married in April. (No, we don't have pictures ready to be put online just yet; we're...

War of Honor: Nefarious Deeds

Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:48:34 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - All my Patrick O'Brian novels are in boxes downstairs in the basement right now. I am worried about this. I am worried because I have too many boxes of books downstairs; if I should ever need to read The Fortune of War again, I won't know for...

Mary, Mary: Quite Contrary

Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:24:52 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - Mary Mary is an Alex Cross novel, and that normally would be a good thing, except that it isn't. Patterson started writing Cross novels in 1992, with Along Came a Spider, which instituted the forumla of pitting Alex against this week's...

A Feast For Crows: Holding Pattern

Sun, 4 Dec 2005 23:48:17 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - All long-form fantasy series have a common problem, one that I have named the Frank Herbert Effect. The first book is usually outstanding, and the second is usually an adequate follow-up. But when you get to the third, or the fourth, or the tenth book in...

Griffin EarJams: Little Pitchers

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:59:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - Why little pitchers? Because little pitchers have big ears. (Check out http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/l
ittlepitche.html
if you don't know what I'm talking about.) I have big ears. I don't have prominent ears, like my dad has. You can still...

A Crack in the Edge of the World: A Long Siege

Sat, 8 Oct 2005 20:11:45 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - Let us suppose that you are to take a flight from New York to California. You book the flight, make time to head out to the West Coast, and make your way to JFK. Only when you arrive, you find that your flight had been cancelled. The only flight...

Renaissance Toronto Skydome: Excellence and Kindness

Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:20:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - "Do you have driving directions to this place?" "Don't need 'em. There it is." "Where?" "Right there. That big... stadium thingy." "But... where's the hotel?" "Well... it's around here somewhere." "I don't see it," my wonderful,...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: That Flighty Mistress

Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:49:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - At the very, very end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, past the last chapter, there is a note that says that this is the sixth book in the Harry Potter "sequence". What this means, exactly, I do not know. It may just be that the series...

Holiday Inn Express, Hickory, North Carolina: Welcome Furniture Shoppers

Sat, 4 Dec 2004 16:02:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - If you're wondering, you're right; it has been a long time since I was out on the road last. The last business trip I had that I got frequent flier points for was in August -- a three-day trip to Washington, DC and Raleigh, North Carolina, so...

Case Closed: One Good Researcher

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:13:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - The late great Lee Atwater once said that he read Machiavelli's The Prince at least once a year. There are lots of better books than either Machiavelli's or Gerald Posner's magnum opus, but I still read Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the...

Ramada Limited Tallahassee: Fixer-Upper

Sat, 24 Jul 2004 20:17:34 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CurtisEdmonds - This is the dark side of business travel. You do not always get to stay where you want to say, at swanky resorts on tropical beaches. You do not always get to stay long enough to develop a real appreciation of things. You do not always get chocolate...