© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-NFP Recent reviews written by member NFP en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_489694465668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - In his outstanding account of his search for the story behind the mysterious disappearance in the Amazon in 1925 of renowned British explorer Percy Fawcett, author David Grann has performed a neat trick. By writing parallel stories -- the reconstruction... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489694465668 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:44:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489694465668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488172064388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - Ultimately the tremendous critical success of British writer Tom Rob Smith's first novel, "Child 44," is due as much its vivid atmospherics as to its thrilling plot, strong narrative, and compelling hero. I picked it up at an airport... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488172064388 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:16:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488172064388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486950080132?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - If a movie director’s aim is to convey to a broad audience an examination of Life and the Human Condition, then why should their findings be any clearer than ours? Are we to expect that just because we plunked down our hard-earned money... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486950080132 Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:12:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486950080132?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_443208470148?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - In the heart of west-central Brittany, 3 kilometers off France’s Atlantic coastline between the bustling commercial port of Brest 60 kilometers to the north and the fishing port of Concarneau some 40 kilometers to the south, sits the Manoir de... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~443208470148 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:06:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_443208470148?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_428934467204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - MY MAZDA EVOLUTION: After my initial Mazda lease -- a sleek but conservative and comfortable 6 cylinder 2000 626 family sedan -- I entered life as a newly single man in 2004 by stepping up to the stylish, sporty and peppy 6 cylinder Mazda 6s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~428934467204 Mon, 5 May 2008 18:48:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_428934467204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_416786452100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - TIME TO MOVE ON: After eight years of a veritable lovefest with my Canadian Larrivee D-03 dreadnought acoustic guitar, I finally had to cop to its main deficiency: bright as its sound was, and as delightful as it was to play, even with a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~416786452100 Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:56:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_416786452100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_416239160964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - There isn't a panorama photo of "Vieux Quebec" that doesn't feature the famous trademark towers and roof lines of the grand, sumptuous Hotel Frontenac. There's something so special about the way it towers majestically above Quebec City's old town and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~416239160964 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:52:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_416239160964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_415732240004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - Director Sidney Lumet's highly-anticipated return in the criminal suspense psychodrama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead has engendered critical raves that seem to this reviewer to speak more to wishful thinking and his reputation than to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~415732240004 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:05:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_415732240004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_413166636676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - If a set piece film about a brother and sister reacting to the plight of their dementia-addled father can be uplifting holiday fare, then anything is possible. I guess anything is possible. With her unexpectedly endearing The Savages writer... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~413166636676 Thu, 3 Jan 2008 20:52:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_413166636676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_412100628100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - Early-on, the screen adaptation of Ian McEwan's celebrated novel "Atonement" has the look and feel of "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Gosford Park" meet "Lady Chatterley's Lover." But worry not; there is nothing derivative in this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~412100628100 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:08:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_412100628100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_411479281284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - I&#146M NOT THERE&#133LITERALLY. I finished high school in New York City in the late 60s. My best friend&#146s family lived in Greenwich Village. As a youngster of 15,16 and 17 I hung out on Washington Square on weekend days, and listened to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~411479281284 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:30:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_411479281284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_409957797508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - When I bought my condo as a newly-single man four years ago after 25 years of marriage had gone by the wayside, I did notice that the wall-to-wall carpeting was beige. But hey, the carpet was in good shape, and why spend money to replace it, right?... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~409957797508 Fri, 7 Dec 2007 15:03:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_409957797508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_408438476420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - Whatonearthcatalog.com promotes itself as a site containing &#147A Collection of Fun Wear and Other Delightful Diversions.&#148 Frankly, most of what I saw in browsing just about fits one&#146s preconceived notions of what such a site would... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408438476420 Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:20:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408438476420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_408384933508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - ""It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin' 'sir' and 'ma'am,' the end is pretty much in sight." Terrell County, Texas Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones.) Those dry lines delivered dead-pan, as it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408384933508 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:13:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408384933508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_408118922884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - Writer/Director Noah Baumbach ("The Squid and the Whale") continues his searing look into dysfunctional families with Margot At The Wedding, his soon-to-be-released exposition of individual angst and inter-family relationships that is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408118922884 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:23:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408118922884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_407434989188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - "I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!" TV news anchor... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~407434989188 Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:51:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_407434989188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_406407253636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - "The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience ... not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life." Leo Tolstoy in a letter dated Feb. 23, 1903... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~406407253636 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:28:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_406407253636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405965344388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - If maverick and cult-fave film director David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises" truly is the $50 million flop the audience data and media analysis indicates it is, more's the public's loss. Cronenberg is Cronenberg (Videodrome, A History of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405965344388 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:05:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405965344388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405104397956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - THE BEST AIRPLANE READING YOU CAN IMAGINE: One day many thousands of air rewards-accumulating miles ago, I reflexively grabbed a paperback pulp fiction novel off a shelf at an airport Hudson News stand while rushing to catch my plane... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405104397956 Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:39:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405104397956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_403324243588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - AMERICAN WATERWAYS: THE WAY IT WAS&#133AND IS: One of the amazing things &#150 among several &#150 about &#147River Horse&#148 by William Least Heat-Moon is the absence of gratuitous sentimentality in a narrative steeped in so much... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~403324243588 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:03:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_403324243588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402999250564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - THE 3:10 TO YUMA IS ON TRACK: This summer&#146s effective re-make by director James Mangold of the 1957 western 3:10 to Yuma is proof positive that the modern Western genre has found its classic Western footing. That&#146s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402999250564 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:21:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402999250564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402497834628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - Scarry’s Airport: An Activity Book Even More Than a Picture Book One of my favorite old snapshots of my (now 25-year-old) twin sons as toddlers so many, many years ago on a planet far, far away is of the two of them in tee shirts and underpants... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402497834628 Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:56:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402497834628?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402409295492?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - THE REQUIRED SET-UP DIGRESSION: When I was still a sophomore and junior in high school in NYC in 1967-68, I would hang out in the West Village coffee shops and music halls to hear the best of the day&#146s rock and folk acts, or in LA at The... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402409295492 Tue, 4 Sep 2007 17:16:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402409295492?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_401708519044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - There is a very cool and user-friendly place in cyberspace where aspiring and working musicians, composers and songwriters meet, greet, swap and&#133best of all&#133promote themselves and their work. It&#146s Sonicbids.com, the online community... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~401708519044 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:36:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_401708519044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_400621276804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro deservedly have a fanatic following of fans, friends, fellow musicians, songwriters and artists throughout their home base in Los Angeles. And that network extends to the enlightened habitues of small acoustic... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~400621276804 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:09:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_400621276804?linkin_id=8003929