Epinions Recent Reviews for DavidWeisman

Mars Bars

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:38:31 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - The 'face on mars' is known to be artificial, and the United States has archaeologists at Cydonia base on Mars looking to learn about the makers - and the unknown technologies they used. The United Nations is also sending a ship to mars, and American...

A decent rather fun read

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:39:11 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - An extremely successful arms dealer (In a modern day setting, or almost so, the book was written 1968) hires a black magician to loose as many demons as possible on Earth for a night to see what they do. The Plot At a Catholic monastery on...

Heroic Fantasy

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:05:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - This book is a lot of fun. Kevin needs to win the hand of a princess he has his heart set on. Unfortunately, an Evil Overlord has stolen an Ancient Artifact he may use in a plot to destroy the kingdom. Worse yet, the King decides the princesses hand...

Passes with honors

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:58:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - This is a science fiction novel about two scientists who are studying near death experiences. Hard Science Fiction This wouldn't seem a good subject for a hard science fiction novel, but Connie Willis has studied near death experiences, the...

Cool it Lomborg!

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:21:20 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - This is a book about global warming. Although the author doesn't agree with the climate change deniers on everything, his slant, tone, and attitude lean towards them. First Call Them Hysterical In some ways the first chapter is a miniature...

2006 Toyota Camry: 2006 Camry for non experts

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 15:03:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - Our 2006 Camry has been good to us. It may not be bigger than older models in objective terms, but they've made good use of the space. There's enough leg room and enough head room, and you can always adjust the seat. Only if you have well nourished...

Allen Raymond - How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Law Breaker: How to Rig an Election

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 12:22:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - Allen Raymond worked on the election campaigns of many Republican candidates before he went to jail. He tells about them here, possibly leaving out only undiscovered criminal activity and the odd perjury. Outline This is structured sort of...

Renaissance but not yet Enlightenment

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 21:14:35 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - Renaissance is the middle of a trilogy - but looking at the cover wouldn't discourage you from reading it as a standalone book, so that's how I read it, and that's how I'll review it. The Plot(s) The book starts with a letter from Morgan...

David Magee - How Toyota Became #1: Another book on Japanese management (focus Toyota)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:03:35 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - The subtitle says it all - "Leadership Lessons from the World's Greatest Car Company". The author doesn't say they've never done anything wrong - because he includes several examples of how good they are at learning from their mistakes...

Peter J. Williamson - Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition: How China is beating American Businesses

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:02:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - Remember a few decades ago when there were a whole bunch of books on Japanese management, just in time delivery, and total quality management? Dragons at Your Door is one of the first books of the new wave - books about Chinese businesses. The...

Jamie Malanowski - The Coup: Not Quite a Coup

Sat, 8 Dec 2007 22:56:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - This is a book about a vice president who hates the president and devises a complicated plan to implicate him for treason. The Plot (A few slight spoilers from early on) Vice President Godwin Pope and President Jack Mahone dislike each...

Pretty Sweet

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:41:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - I enjoyed reading this book, but it may not be for absolutely everyone, so read on. Gore If you can't stand explicit gore in your books, this isn't your cup of tea. On the other hand, I don't usually go for it, and I enjoyed this book...

An insider writes about interrogation of Al Qaeda suspects

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:56:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - This book is written by two men. Chris Mackey is an Army Sergeant First Class who interrogated prisoners of war at a camp in Afghanistan- or rather his pseudonym. Greg Miller is the only reporter granted access to US interrogators. Summary...

An excellent book on Kansas and natiol politics

Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:26:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - Been trying to understand the turn to the right - especially among people who need help most? Here's a big chunk of the answer. It's written from a liberal point of view, but a conservative will learn many interesting things if they can stomach the...

Pax Britannica

Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:33:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - In a sense this is a book on the British Empire as it stood June 22, 1897, Queen Victoria's 'Diamond Jubilee'. Of course you can't understand ongoing events by glancing at a still snapshot, so this turns into a peg for a history of the period, as we...

Emergence

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 22:49:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - This is a book about emergence - "what happens when an interconnected system of relatively simple elements self-organizes to form more intelligent, more adaptive higher-level behavior". It is not about a single science, but a concept which is becoming...

What went wrong with this book?

Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:42:56 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - When Bernard Lewis asks "What Went Wrong?", he is asking why Islamic cultures fell behind 'Western Cultures' militarily and economically and in other ways. Some might deny such a thing had happened, but Osama bin Laden himself referred to eighty years...

A good history of England?

Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:56:40 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - This history of England starts with prehistoric times and goes to the end of the twentieth century. Even though only a few pages are devoted to the years before the Roman invasion in the first century, that is a great deal of ground to cover. Two...

Pretty well balanced

Sat, 14 Sep 2002 20:54:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - This is basically a very broad overview of environmental problems on Earth and potential solutions to them, covering land, sea, and air.

The Good

I'm not going to say there is no important environmental concern this book fails to at...

Falls a little flat

Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:27:42 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - This is not one of the better books I've read on global warming, and you get a feel for the problem at the very beginning.

Chapter 1

If you are looking for a book on global warming, you might be tempted to put this one...

Definitely doesn't score a zero

Fri, 12 Oct 2001 22:30:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - The title of this book refers to non zero sum games, which are games where one player doesn't always lose what another gains. Either there is a chance that both (or all) players working together can gain, or a risk that they all can lose. This means...

A bargain!

Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:41:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - Whether you're a fan or a former fan who feels they've outgrown this sort of thing, you'll enjoy this book. It is both a Star Trek book and a satire of a Star Trek book, which actually manages to get you on the edge of your seat occasionally even though...

A good read.

Mon, 1 Oct 2001 23:20:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - This book is set several hundred years in the future, and the power of nanotechnology has exceeded anything we now imagine. The older generation can be young more than once and live well over two hundred years with the help of nanobots inside them. The...

Want more Belgariad?

Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:32:27 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - If you really loved the Belgariad you should read this, but if you never read it or even thought it was only fair to good, this isn't for you. The Belgariad was a five book saga of good versus evil with magic and the fate of the world at stake. This...

A Shadow on my mind

Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:20:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DavidWeisman - This book passes one of my major tests - it leaves you thinking about it after you've finished it. The themes resonate through your mind.

If you're wondering, the picture above seems to be the wrong book as of this writing.

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