Epinions Recent Reviews for Niloniak

Still in the Game

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 23:40:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - Every time I pick up one of Jance’s books I am amazed it took me so long. Her writing is engaging, entertaining, and smart.

In Birds of Prey, JP Beaumont – the main character of so many of her books set in Seattle - returns (hooray!) as...

A cunning plan, put on hold.

Sat, 30 Jun 2001 04:17:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - I love Black Adder, beginning to end (well, Back and Forth a little less) and all stops in between. I still laugh when for the fortieth time, Edmund contrives yet another version of "As cunning as..." But the fourth series is different, more special...

The little tent that should.

Wed, 2 May 2001 19:07:11 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - The Red Tent should have ranked up there as one of my favorite books ever; interesting premise, good juxtaposition of the emerging Hebrew faith and the existing poly-theistic ones, strong female character. Instead, the narrative seemed at times to be...

Now I can impress strangers at parties.

Wed, 2 May 2001 18:43:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - War & Peace is one of those books (much like Moby Dick or Ulysses) that everyone claims to have read but few people actually do. And little wonder - its over 1400 pages, translated from Russian, has French and Russian diminutives (yes, for the same...

Go back to sleep!

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 04:06:14 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - There are so many things that are so, SO bad about these books, it is almost hard to know where to start.

Basically, if you have not already figured it out, the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy is about Beauty, who is awakened by the Prince having sex...

Death is a lover of a thousand tongues

Sun, 12 Nov 2000 04:30:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - Poppy Brite has accomplished the unbelievable - a new idea in the vampire genre. Brite is a hypnotic, compelling writer who can create prose that crawls under your skin and invades your subconscious. In Lost Souls, she takes the black and white world of...

Savage is as Savage does.

Thu, 25 May 2000 18:16:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - Mass production for optimum efficiency and reliability is at the heart of Brave New World. Henry Ford (the Ford -- make the sign of the T now), the father of assembly-line production is the deity of the masses (the only one allowed) and all a fully...

My mother is a fish.

Wed, 24 May 2000 18:34:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - As I Lay Dying is consummate Faulkner. Complex, strange, convoluted and engaging. It is, however, also much more easily accessible than some of his other works and is much more readily enjoyed. The obscure references and allusions that pepper The Sound...

One of Cunningham's best.

Tue, 23 May 2000 19:25:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - Scott Cunningham was a well-regarded and trusted practitioner of earth-based religions in his lifetime and is the definitive source for a large groups of people because of his practical and accessible books. Earth Power is definitely in that...

A peachy good book.

Mon, 22 May 2000 19:47:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - Roald Dahl is accepted as an author of twisted and strange children's tales where the child always wins and adults, very often, meet rather nasty ends. James and the Giant Peach is no exception to that pattern.

James, like so many of Dahl's...

Speaking my language.

Sun, 21 May 2000 00:26:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - The Secret Language of Birthdays is NOT just for the astrology crowd. This is a huge book which addresses each of the calender days individually in a two page spread. Included on the pages are a profile for the personality for that person; a general...

Quite the curiosity.

Sat, 20 May 2000 03:08:04 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - Jean Rhys takes up the story of Edmund Rochester, years before the novel Jane Eyre. Unlike Bronte's much loved novel, Rhys falls sadly short of her goals and The Wide Sargasso Sea is little more than a curiosity to fans of Jane Eyre.

Rhys...

Lovely, Lively, Lily

Fri, 19 May 2000 22:29:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - We got to know Lily through the other wonderful books of Kevin Henkes and so expected her book to be lively and full of mischief and Henkes does not disappoint.

Lily is such a familiar little soul, full of easily quashed high spirits,...

Are you kidding me?

Fri, 19 May 2000 22:19:39 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - I am more than willing to be the voice of dissent here. this book is FRIGHTENING! Are we teaching little kids to share or are we teaching them that no one will ever like them unless they are like everyone else?

The happy little fish who looks...

Reservation American dream

Fri, 19 May 2000 17:05:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - Alexie's first full-length novel revisits many of the themes he has touched on in his earlier writing but, with a back beat. At the center of this novel is music -- the Indian rock band that Alexie follows from its inception to end and Robert Johnson,...

Not just a clever title.

Thu, 18 May 2000 19:12:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - Alexie's first collection of short stories is mind-boggling! This is a book you savor and let roll around in your psyche. Alexie writes with a grace and musicality that is incredibly rare. His images and characters take on a life of their own that is...

Before its' too late!

Thu, 18 May 2000 03:32:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - Ken, brought up to be a good Seventh Day Adventist, awaits the end of the world with dread and impatience throughout his youth in the earlier 60's. having left the church, (the world just didn't end and besides, a randy young man can't even kiss a girl...

Why is Nicole on the cover?

Thu, 18 May 2000 03:18:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - don't see this film expecting to see Nicole Kidman very often -- she has a wonderful and memorable role, but as a MINOR character. This is a fabulous follow-up to the film, The Year My Voice Broke, where Danny is surviving boarding school in 1960's...

Before Harry Potter

Thu, 18 May 2000 03:07:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Niloniak - there was Charles Wallace and his sister Meg travelling in weird and wonderful ways with wild and wonderful characters. A Wrinkle in Time has only the best things about fiction for young adults: imagination, family values, love, original ideas, new...