Epinions Recent Reviews for basesurge

Of Code Words and Lizard Kings

Mon, 6 Apr 2009 02:41:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - We live in a time overrun with conspiracies. Roswell, JFK, CFR/Trilateral Commission, alien...

Back When Arnie and Jesse Were Still Cool...

Mon, 6 Apr 2009 02:06:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - Back in 1987 Ronald Regan was president. Back in 1987 Science Fiction/Action-Adventure movies were a big deal. Back in 1987 the US was actively involved in a number of low-concept wars in Central America. Back in 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse...

Conservative Dystopia; or "On Strike!" or; "Who is John Gault?"

Mon, 9 Mar 2009 05:25:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - "Democracies will endure only so long as their citizens do not discover they can vote themselves gifts from the public purse".I think it was Tacitus who wrote that a long time ago and, oh, aren't there always people willing to run on the...

Inside History's Wierdest Dynasty

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 05:39:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - OK kids, who knows where (or even what) Sarawak is?! I guess I sort of knew before I read this book. It's somewhere in Malaysia, or something like that... In fact it's located inh Borneo on the western coast south of Brunei. Let me tell...

Hitler's Best and Worst

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:24:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - Everybody knows something about Hitler's supermen, the SS. They were the dudes in the black uniforms with the skull emblems on the hats. Tall, blonde, implacable, tough guys who stomped France and about 40% of Russia as well as a large portion of the...

Here Comes the Chopper...

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:12:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - There's something riveting about death, isn't there? Do you hide inside when a house in the neighborhood burns? Speed up past a gruesome accident? Close your eyes at the money shot in the Zapruder Film? I don't either. The death penalty is...

From the Jedi Archives...

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:24:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - I'll admit it, I'm a "Star Wars" fan. At one time I was something of a geek, verging even on a fanboy. I waited in line to see "The Empire...

I Still Say All Wheeled AFV's Look Alike...

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:41:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - OK, first I'll explain the title: during the first Iraq War (1991 -- Bush I) their was a little friendly fire problem. (For complete tyros: "friendly fire" = blowing up your own stuff and/or guys.) One of the main causes of this problem is the fact that...

Frank Barnaby - How to Build a Nuclear Bomb: And Other Weapons of Mass Destruction: Something Less Than a Blueprint...

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:25:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - I bought this one on the title alone. If you've read my previous reviews with any regularity you know why. I'm a nuclear weapons junkie and I have a special interest in design concepts. I was rather hoping for a redux of what was wrought by...

Dumb Movie in Disguise

Wed, 4 Feb 2009 03:01:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - Repeat after me: "It's a movie, based on a cartoon, based on a line of toys." Again: "It's a movie, based on a cartoon, based on a line of toys." One more time: "It's a movie, based on a cartoon, based on a line of toys." Repeat as many times as...

Brüllenmaus

Wed, 4 Feb 2009 02:34:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - Adolf Hitler was an evil, rotten, stinking, murdering [you know what...]. A wretched, miserable despicable, little [another bad word...]. He did, however, have one good quality (really!): the man knew a cool tank when he saw one. The German had a lot of...

Mother Russia, or Catherine the Great, Briefly

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 02:35:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - Between 1762 and 1796 the vast Empire of Russia and it's tributaries was ruled by a woman named Catherine. Her French admirers called her 'le Grande". She carried on and enhanced the work of westernizing and modernizing (and, to a large degree...

Belongs on Your Bookshelf Next to "World Targets in Megadeaths"

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 02:02:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - Guess what popped up on my last lazy search through Epinions database using the key-words "nuclear weapons"? Whadyaknow? This old warhorse popped up... (*) Now, it's very likely you don't need this book on your bookshelf -- especially at the...

Are You Cleared to Read This Review?

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 01:45:16 GMT

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Number One From Ridley Scott or "What Were We Fighting About Again?"

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:25:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - Duels are about honor. One party is insulted by another in some way, we're usually (but not always) talking about two men here, and he must seek "satisfaction. Often the "wronged" party would just as soon forget about it but is pressured by his...

"Remain Calm!"

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:56:55 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - This one starts up with a title card proclaiming it as a "ABC Television" production, something like that. I think it was a feature however. There is a genus of films that are of the form: "A bunch of people from differing backgrounds are thrown together...

"Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies..."

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:23:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - Government lies. The Media Lie. Churches lie. Your boss lies. Your wife/husband and kids lie. You lie. Everybody lies... This is an old-ish volume I bought a few years ago when I was condemned to jury duty and needed some TV-free...

Alice's Grown-Up Trip... Through the Looking Glass...

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:08:31 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - I picked this one up in a post-Christmas (and impending recession) clearance at the local K-Mart. The cover art has Miss Kate Beckensale dressed in the traditional 1865 or so pinafore and some Wonderland-looking stuff scattered about in the background...

Narnian Apocalypse

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:47:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - (NOTE: I screwed up and posted this review originally under the Spanish language version of this book. If you've already read this review no need to do so again.)All things, good and bad, at last come to and end, or at least a stop...

Number Theory

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:17:00 GMT

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Convenient Collection but Bizarre Organization

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:07:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - This one's going to be rather brief (I hope). After re-watching the movie version of the first installment of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" a while back and with the impending (at that time) release of...

Narnian Apocalypse

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:49:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - (Oops... This is a review of the Spanish language version of this book. I've put a duplicate review under the correct...

Narnia Meets "Arabian Nights" (sort of...)

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:20:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - For the fifth trip to the land of Narnia, C.S. Lewis decided to look to south-of-the-border to the city and nation of the Calormens. There, in a small, provincial fishing village lives a boy named Shasta. His dad is a short-sighted jerk, no mom. One day...

Three DVDs of Old-Time Nuke Testing and Training (Duck & Cover, Too!)

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:11:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - During the late 1940's and the 1950's it was generally thought by many on the heights of government and the military that war with the Soviet Union, big war, nuclear war, was not only likely but nearly certain -- just a matter of time. As with the...

Heinlein's First and Last

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:39:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author basesurge - I guess everybody has a utopia inside them. Everybody has a vision inside of how things ought to be. Hell, I've even written an improved version of the US Constitution (with a very clearly worded redux of the Second Amendment, among other things)...