Epinions Recent Reviews for Kapture

Alison Bechdel - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic: Funny Home

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:28:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Fun Home is an autobiography in the form of a graphic novel (or comic book, as I called them when I was a kid). Alison Bechdel is also the cartoonist of Dykes to Watch Out For, a comic strip about a cohort of lesbians living in San Francisco. In Fun...

Refurbished DELL DIMENSION 8100 PENTIUM4-1.7GHZ PROCESSOR - 256MB - 40GB HARD DRIVE - CDRW & - Item (81009jm9n01) Burner: The road to Dell is paved with good intentions.

Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:10:12 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. - Dante, Inferno (first canto) I’ve never been fond of Jeffersonian Democracy. I don’t make my own ice cream or...

Timothy Freke et al - Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians: My Own, Fictional, Jesus.

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:29:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - While I was hauling this book around work with me on my lunch hour, one of my coworkers commented that the title seemed engineered to appeal to a particular kind of trendy new age holism. Not having finished the book, I agreed, because for the most part,...

The Years of Rice and Salt: The triumph of eastern civilization.

Mon, 6 Jan 2003 18:28:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Kim Stanley Robinson's Years of Salt and Rice, like his Mars series, is a beautiful, painstaking diorama of history. Where Red Mars and its sequels project the foibles and foment of human history into the future and other planets in our solar system,...

Blade II: Dull Blade

Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:19:04 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - I saw a Boondocks cartoon where Huey proclaims that Wesley Snipes finally made a good movie. Blade Two!

Now, Aaron McGruder is fairly hard on movies. He's always ragging (bagging?) on bad black talent, and he raked Star Wars episode I over the...

Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials: Tinted Horizons

Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:48:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - The Amber Spyglass is the third and last book in Phillip Pullman's His Dark materials series.

Lyra, our spunky pseudo-Victorian girl heroine from the first two novels, and Will, her traveling companion from modern London who has mastered a...

Bally Total Fitness: Bally's great shell game.

Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:40:42 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Bally's gets results... as long as they're the results Bally's wants.

An ironclad contract that forces you to accept bad service, dirty gyms, and broken machines?

That's what they want.

Yeah, yeah, we signed the contract...

Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials book II: Cutting out the essential parts of things.

Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:42:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Spoilers be found ahead.

The Subtle Knife continues the journey of Lyra Belaqua, begun in The Golden Compass. Lyra is a little girl from a world where the placenames are the same as our own, but the physics of...

Philip Pullman and Wtw Repertory - The Golden Compass: Oxford: If you had a soul, what animal would it be?

Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:34:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - The Golden Compass is about Lyra Belaqua, a little girl who embarks on a strange journey. Some bad people called the gobblers are stealing children from London. Her best friend gets stolen, and the little girl begins a journey to find him. With the...

Jurassic Park III: Jurassic Pork and Human Beans

Wed, 1 Aug 2001 18:09:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Maybe it's a sign that I'm a bad person, but I laughed all the way through the first half of Jurassic Park.

I'm not telling you that Jurassic Park isn't scary. It's got more than it's share of thrills. I just have a dark sense of humor.
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UPS Ground: Why I hate UPS.

Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:01:09 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - The phone rang at 10:45 PM. Ten years ago, I might have thought someone wanted to hang out. Now, though, phone calls at 11 at night make me think of funerals. "Yer dad had a heart attack last night. Bring potato salad."

So even though Ruby's...

Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil: That's Elemental evil to you, bub.

Sat, 7 Jul 2001 11:10:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Disclaimer: If you aren't a role playing gamer or biiiig geek, the following review will probably mean nothing to you.

Also: Here there be spoilers.

Really. Trust me.

I don't remember exactly when I stopped buying TSR's...

A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow: An American Hitchhiking Odyssey: For best hitch-hiking results...

Tue, 8 May 2001 09:01:06 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Forty-five year old Tim Brookes is having something of a mid-life crisis. He's got the "I'm nothing but a worker-drone in the academic mind fields" blues.

Brookes is an expatriate Brit who followed his American girlfriend back to the U.S. in...

Wheelers: Don't point your moons this way!

Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:57:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Wheelers isn't a novel, exactly. It's an example of a current school of SF that proselytizes for secular humanism, doing a tour of duty as a missionary for the brotherhood of all genetic material and the beauty of civilization.

That said,...

Tim Powers - Declare: Are you constant to the old covenant?

Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:49:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Tim Powers is a big, fat tease.

What I really mean is that Tim Powers is an intriguingly opaque writer who uses a wealth of historical detail to obscure the fact that his fantasy novels are richly over the top.

Powers sets...

Lynda Barry - Cruddy: Days of Moonshine and Bloody Noses

Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:22:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Cruddy is like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as novelized by John Waters in order to make it more palatable to the squeamish. It is a white trash Wizard of Oz. It is about falling through the cracks of love.

Cruddy, by Lynda Barry, is sixteen...

Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter - The Light of Other Days: Eyewitness history.

Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:24:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - "Many true-story versions of historic events - the Cuba missile crises, Watergate, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Euro - while of interest to aficionados, have turned out to be muddled, confusing, and complex. It is dismaying to...

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2: Jumping at Shadows.

Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:08:23 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Well. Now we know why most of the first Blair Witch movie was improvisational.

The Blair Witch team can't write.

Oh, to throw them a bone, there were some spooky bits in BW2. The little drowned girl with her herky jerky walk. Also,...

Dust: An unparalleled end of the world extravaganza!

Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:14:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Dust is about ecological disaster. And ah, what a disaster! Such a read-the-fine-print, grimly ironic, hoist by your own petard kind of disaster that one is compelled to find delicious how such a longed-for consummation went so wrong. Dust, you see,...

Fifth Element: What Science Fiction Should Be

Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:27:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Hey. I love this movie. When I saw it for the first time, I was as breathless as I had been when I saw Star Wars for the first time at nine. I lost that breathless feeling when Star Wars was re-released in my late twenties. Although an entertaining...

Laura Reese - Panic Snap: Kinky beach reading.

Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:23:28 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - I can't imagine the SM community embracing this novel. Safe, Sane, and Consensual are nowhere to be found in here. There are no safe words in Panic Snap's world, no quitting allowed. The whole thing reeks of coercion, bullying, and date rape.

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Symantec Norton SystemWorks (07-00-03190) for Mac: Why Norton SystemWorks doesn't work for my system.

Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:50:28 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - I bought Norton System Works 2.0 after my previous hard drive died. My dad was convinced that I'd suffered from a virus. I wasn't, but I wanted some protection since I download a lot of stuff from the web. I figured "five programs in one! What a...

Joe Connelly - Bringing Out the Dead: Don't go chasing This ambulance.

Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:32:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - For reference, The Nicholas Cage movie of the same title was based on this novel. I don't know how they compare, because I never saw the movie.

Bringing Out The Dead is an exciting, if flawed, novel: A series of semi-hallucinatory, caffeine...

Connie May Fowler - Before Women Had Wings: A Novel: Of Angels and Insects... er, child abusers.

Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:23:18 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Before Women Had Wings

This is a charming example of the Young-Southern-Girls-In-Distress genre of women's fiction/memoir, made most famous by Bastard Out of Carolina. Maybe too charming, because although the author's prose is a pleasure to...

The Orchid Thief: Exotics for Eccentrics.

Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:20:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Kapture - Susan Orlean, a journalist, wrote this when she became interested in a Florida legal case: a orchid grower and a group of Indians were caught poaching endangered orchids from the Florida swamps. Hence, the title. The original incident, and it's...