© 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-arkhaine Recent reviews written by member arkhaine en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_460094869124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - At the end of the first chapter of John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle, Jim Nolan says to Harry, the man who is in the process of accepting his application into the Communist Party of America, “Did you ever work at a job where, when you got enough skill... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~460094869124 Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:57:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_460094869124?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_459715481220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Paisanos are a funny bunch. They are a “mixture of Spanish, Indian, Mexican and assorted Caucasian blood.” They love wine, particularly when it comes in a gallon jug. Working is a somewhat negotiable affair, with the negotiations often working in the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~459715481220 Mon, 2 Feb 2009 05:00:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_459715481220?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_459515596420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - To a God Unknown is John Steinbeck's second novel, published four years after the unsuccessful but promising, Cup of Gold. Steinbeck spent a great deal of time writing a much larger story than To a God Unknown would eventually become, biting off a great... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~459515596420 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:59:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_459515596420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_459323641476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - A man and a woman at a hotel on the Normandy coast. The woman has been there a day already, and has gone sightseeing. The man, just arriving, tries to find her. And he does – on the beach, walking haphazardly amongst tourists and children riding... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~459323641476 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:32:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_459323641476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_458662121092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - What happens when an innocent person becomes tangled within the oily arms of the media and accused of horrible acts she did not commit? What happens when the story becomes more important than the person? What happens when tabloid journalism runs amuck,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~458662121092 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:14:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_458662121092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_458257895044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Jonathan Franzen's Strong Motion is nothing if not ambitious. It is a novel of family strife, of marital disharmony, of a young man's emergence into the world, and it is also a corporate thriller, a cautionary environmental tale, and a love story. The... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~458257895044 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:41:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_458257895044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_458128068228?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Maggie, a Girl of the Streets is an early novel of Stephen Crane's. It sits firmly within the tradition of naturalism created by Emile Zola a few decades earlier. It is the story of Maggie, a pretty girl born into poverty, ignorance and dirt, and how... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~458128068228 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:31:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_458128068228?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_457903869572?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Authors tend to adapt their writing to their surroundings and their histories in ways that are both an outgrowth of their time and a particular outpouring of their own personalities. In considering the stifling totalitarian regimes of Central and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~457903869572 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:16:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_457903869572?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_457817755268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Farewell Waltz is a story told over five days, alternating between the lightness of comedy, and Milan Kundera's equally light touches of tragedy. It is a story that fails to tighten together at the end, finishing up as something loose and saggy, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~457817755268 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:58:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_457817755268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_457741799044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - E. L. Doctorow's World's Fair is one of those very American novels, a tale of growing up and expanding horizons, of innocence lost as the scales covering the hero's eyes are removed. It is the story of Edgar, a very young boy with a loving, tired mother... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~457741799044 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:49:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_457741799044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_456433503876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Ten years have passed since Colonel Chabert was killed at the battle of Eylau in 1807. The decorated war hero's wife has remarried, his name has entered the hallowed ranks of Frenchmen who have given all to their country, and the Parisians have moved... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~456433503876 Fri, 2 Jan 2009 07:59:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_456433503876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_456198229636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Fantômas is everywhere. He is a master killer, a criminal genius, capable of being in multiple places at once. He can pretend to be anyone - even female - or so the story goes. And there are many, many stories of Fantômas. He is the everyman killer... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~456198229636 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:01:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_456198229636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_455869107844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Guy de Maupassant's Pierre and Jean*, his fourth novel, is a large story told small, a family drama written in miniature, highlighting the French author's astonishing capability for psychological insight, emotional irony, and the subtle touch of his... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~455869107844 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:09:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_455869107844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_455441485444?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - A teenager whose mother is dying of cancer. A South American assassin who has betrayed his employer. An elderly painter with colon cancer who wants to hear his daughter play the cello before he dies. A young girl travelling as a refuge from Viet Nam... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~455441485444 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:35:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_455441485444?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_455175278212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - It is nearing the end of the first day of the New Year, and nobody has died. The Queen Mother, gently slipping away for months, was expected to make the New Year and that is all, but here she is, alive and, not quite well, but – alive. Nobody has died... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~455175278212 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:12:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_455175278212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_454842617476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - The Crimes of England is a series of essays written during the Great War that highlight, in Chesterton's learned and generally witty opinion, the failings of his country. The collection opens with a letter to Professor Whirlwind, a German whose name 'is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~454842617476 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:31:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_454842617476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_454772625028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Edith Wharton is an author who has long, and unfairly, stood in the shade of Henry James. Their topics are sometimes similar, and their style, too, but of course they are different authors. But literary reputations live and die for reasons that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~454772625028 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:32:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_454772625028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_454553144964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Titling a work of literary criticism 'How Fiction Works' is a confident and aggressive act that leaves the author wide open to accusations of hubris, arrogance and worse. Of course, these accusations would only come about if How Fiction Works didn't,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~454553144964 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:38:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_454553144964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_454305681028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Friendship and romance, in the short stories of Roberto Bolaño, begin suddenly and end with one or both character disappearing to some exotic territory – to France, perhaps, or Madrid, or back to Chile. In any case, they are never seen again, and life... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~454305681028 Mon, 8 Dec 2008 22:40:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_454305681028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_454191189636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - When we first met David Kepesh way back in 1972, he had been transformed into a giant breast. Five years later he returned in The Professor of Desire, concerned with the grave of Kafka, his own continental woes, and the troubling propensity of sex to get... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~454191189636 Mon, 8 Dec 2008 02:42:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_454191189636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_454071258756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Weird Tales from Northern Seas is a collection of Norwegian author Jonas Lie's short stories, cherry-picked by translator R. Nisbet Bain from a number of collections Lie wrote between 1870 and 1891. They are tied thematically by the sea, by the bleakness... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~454071258756 Sun, 7 Dec 2008 02:48:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_454071258756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_450217938564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Of all the cranky old men in the world, the last person one would assume capable of calming down has done exactly that. Philip Roth, a former enfant terrible and one of the most prominent living American authors, who has largely made his reputation by... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~450217938564 Tue, 4 Nov 2008 02:54:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_450217938564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_445294022276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - For decades, Jewish survivors of the concentration camps of World War II have written about their experiences. These tales are almost uniformly horrible, which makes sense – the time and the place certainly was horrible, an indelible stain upon... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~445294022276 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:23:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_445294022276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_445090795140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - When the Veraguth's bought Rosshalde, it was “an abandoned old manor with overgrown garden paths, moss-covered benches, cracked stone steps, and a tangled, neglected park”. Ten years later the manor is clean and beautiful, but the marriage... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~445090795140 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:06:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_445090795140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_445000617604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Adolescent males, before puberty sets in and they become caught up with girls, often find themselves drawn to magnetic older males. For some, these men are charismatic teachers; for others, they are soldiers, or movie stars, or sportsmen, or successful... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~445000617604 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:35:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_445000617604?linkin_id=8003929