Epinions Recent Reviews for Nimue

Mohican State Park: Mohican State Park

Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:54:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue -
Review Topic: Sights & Attractions

I've just returned from a two-day getaway to Mohican State Park, near Loudenville, Ohio. Mid-October is a perfect time for a visit here -- the leaves are splendid, the hills magnificent,...

Dubrul, Jack: King Solomon's Mines Meets Raiders of the Lost Ark

Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:32:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue - With an interesting premise, and fascinating, unknown (to me) territory, this book should provide you with a pleasant diversion from more serious tasks, as well as a tantalizing glimpse of a little-known corner of Africa and Jewish history. Of course it...

Horror Story of the Deep

Thu, 11 May 2000 15:49:18 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue - OK, the plot's a mishmash of things you've already read -- it begins as "An Enemy of the People," throws in a touch of "The Godfather" and ends with a rip-off of "Moby Dick." There's a lot of information about great whites...

Not the female Grisham!

Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:37:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue - OK, they both write about legal entanglements -- but Scottoline is a far better storyteller than Grisham. The story moves along briskly; the plot twists and turns in unexpected ways. The main character is called upon to defend a murder case in which...

Fact (all too real) & Fiction

Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:16:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue - Some time back, I noticed on Discovery Channel news briefs that an expedition was being organized to retrieve frozen bodies from Norway in an attempt to get a sample of the flu virus responsible for the 1919-1920 pandemic. (I never heard anything...

The Pilgrim Route to Santiago: A Modern Trip in the Steps of Medieval Pilgrims

Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:07:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue - After the martyrdom of St. James the Great in Jerusalem circa 46 A.D., his body was miraculously translated to Spain, where he had been a missionary, there to be miraculously discovered around 813 A.D. St. James gave impetus to the Reconquista by...

Middlebury College: Educational Value

Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:34:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue - I'm afraid that I really didn't appreciate the value of a Middlebury education until after graduation. I did receive a broad liberal arts background which greatly serves to enhance quality of life. I grew up in a suburban/urban environment, so the...

Another Scarpetta Mystery

Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:50:27 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue - This book is another outing of the apparently popular Kay Scarpetta series, but overall this book was a disappointment. It gets off to a great start with a mysterious fire and then falls apart. (You'll probably learn more than you really wanted to know...

Gardner, John C: Masterful retelling of ancient tale

Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:20:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue - Gardner is the author, not the title. The title is "Grendel."

You remember the story from high school -- it's Beowulf. This time it's told from Grendel's point of view. It's a truly wonderful book, darkly brilliant and...

Different Take

Fri, 24 Dec 1999 15:17:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue - I seem to have read something completely different. Kurtz is a "good" man as defined by his society, and his (European) society rewards and reinforces his behavior. As he journeys farther away from that society, the external props of moral...

Sex to put you to sleep

Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:09:20 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue - Sorry, but I hated it. (Yes, I know it's supposed to be a great novel.) Lawrence manages to obsessed with sex and terminally dull at the same time. Contrary to Freud, a cigar is NOT just a cigar in this book. Lawrence has a passion for heavy-handed...

Created World

Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:59:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue - It's a wonderful novel, richly textured and realistic. Based on Conrad's experiences as a seaman, the book creates an entire fictional country in all its complexity and social classes. (Don't be put off by the recent TV adaptation of the novel -- it...

Touch of the Blarney

Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:32:15 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Nimue - Of course, Frankie's got a way with words and a lovely, lilting turn of phrase. (But then he's Irish.) Other than that, he presents a compendium of every depressing stereotype written, sung, or spoken about the Irish -- the drunken father, the...