© 1999-2008 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_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 http://www.epinions.com/content_444362886788?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - An unnamed writer has been commissioned by the Catholic Church to investigate a series of massacres that have taken place over the last decade. The military is responsible, and worse, they remain in power and have not been taken to account for their... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~444362886788 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:48:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_444362886788?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_444138360452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Said Mahran, a petty burglar with pretentions of intellect and justice, has returned from four years in prison to find that the world continues to refuse to meet his idealistic demands. Said sees things not as they are but how he expects they should be,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~444138360452 Mon, 8 Sep 2008 23:20:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_444138360452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_443813564036?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - The Library of America edition of Edmund Wilson's work, Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s*, contains The Shores of Light, Axel's Castle, and 'Uncollected Reviews' of the period. The collection reviews and examines writers who have been... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~443813564036 Fri, 5 Sep 2008 22:00:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_443813564036?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_443623640708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - The late nineteenth century saw a number of authors shifting their talent to social criticism. Class, wealth, power and their abuses came sharply into focus, first from Balzac and Dickens, and then followed by the naturalists, who were led by Zola... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~443623640708 Thu, 4 Sep 2008 03:43:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_443623640708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_443295174276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Sylvestre Bonnard is a literary man through and through, which has the unfortunate side effect – common to many literary men, if books from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy to Enrique Vila-Matas' Montano's Malady are any indication – of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~443295174276 Mon, 1 Sep 2008 06:51:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_443295174276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442412273284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - On November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima and four members of his private army, the Tatenokai, attacked the office of the commandant of the Ichigaya Camp in Japan. Mishima, by then a famous novelist and essayist, demanded the restoration of the powers of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442412273284 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:58:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442412273284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442320260740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian, is an oddly named collection, and one that suffers at times from uneven choices, both in range and quality. The collection includes one story from each country except for Belgium, which has... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442320260740 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:35:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442320260740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442037866116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - In the first chapter the narrator says, 'Things have changed.' Two sentences later the words are repeated: 'Things have changed.' The narrator outlines in brief sections the rise and (mostly) the fall of 'Little Mountain', an area of Beirut, Lebanon... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442037866116 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:35:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442037866116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441912233604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Brazilian literature, as Isaac Goldberg's introduction helpfully informs us, &#147has been divided into four main periods.&#148 Writing from the start of the twentieth century, Goldberg places the four Brazilian authors he has translated amongst their... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441912233604 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:49:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441912233604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441701731972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Death walks quietly among the paragraphs of John Updike's short story collection, The Afterlife. Fathers, mothers, spouses, and sometimes even protagonists, are drawn, one and all, to death. Updike's bleak collection of short stories, published in 1994... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441701731972 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:09:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441701731972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441568693892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Richard Bausch's new novel, Peace, is very short, coming in at only one hundred and seventy-eight pages. It's familiar territory is World War II, seen from the perspective of a young American soldier whose strongest memory of home is his father's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441568693892 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:22:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441568693892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441339776644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - The respected surgeon Strauch has sent a young medical student to the small village of Weng to supervise his brother, a painter. Strauch suspects that his brother has gone mad, and wants the student to find out what has happened to him. Over almost... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441339776644 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:41:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441339776644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441188912772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen referred to Björnstjerne Björnson as the living embodiment of the national genius of Norway. &#147Whenever he opens his mouth,&#148 Boyesen writes in the introduction to A Happy Boy in the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, 1917,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441188912772 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:24:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441188912772?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440698179204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Norwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun wrote about characters who were obsessive, introverted, antisocial and possessed with a frenzied capacity for love, lust and art. This type is seen most clearly in one of his earliest works, Hunger, which shows a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440698179204 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:22:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440698179204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440387341956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - For Jorge Luis Borges, the critique of fiction was less an explanation of plot or characterisation and more an attempt to understand the methods used by an author to convey their ideas. The importance of a work came from what the author was able to tell... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440387341956 Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:52:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440387341956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_437347651204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - It is generally accepted that the person you were as a child or teenager is not the person you are as an adult. Setting aside the physical differences, fundamental aspects of self shift over the passing of time. Morals and beliefs are modified,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~437347651204 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:18:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_437347651204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_433669901956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Prince Sternenhoch is an important man. He is worth five hundred million marks, and has the ear of powerful men. Unmarried, he is nonetheless a dashing fellow. He writes, 'I am a beau, in spite of certain faults, for example, that I am only 150... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~433669901956 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:31:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_433669901956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_423991021188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Alice Munro's writes with the refreshing honesty, clarity and insight of a person comfortable with herself even in times of discomfort and confusion. She is a writer whose narrators, though they may be confused, are at the same time aware of themselves... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~423991021188 Tue, 6 May 2008 09:19:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_423991021188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_428731633284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives opens &#150 and closes &#150 with the diary entries of a young poet enamoured with the Visceral Realists, a group of poets whose aim is to overthrow what they perceive as the conservative and safe poetry dominant... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~428731633284 Sun, 4 May 2008 02:52:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_428731633284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_421295722116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - First and foremost, before any other introduction, it is important to know that Christopher Bernard's monstrous, sprawling, magnificent epic novel, A Spy in the Ruins, is difficult in the extreme. There are no free passes given, no easy routes allowed... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421295722116 Sat, 8 Mar 2008 05:49:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421295722116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_418513325700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - 'The core puzzle, for all of us, is what ignites a human being to hate feverishly, kill wantonly in huge numbers, revel in genocide and final solutions – that is unanswerable.' -Unanswerable, Mathias B Freese The concept of an 'unanswerable' question... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~418513325700 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:59:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_418513325700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_416311840388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Following the materialistic excesses of the Roaring Twenties, the world was shaken by the effects of the Great Depression. Three countries, all very different, came up with remarkably similar solutions to the problem of low employment, civilian unrest... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~416311840388 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:27:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_416311840388?linkin_id=8003929