Epinions Recent Reviews for bruns_rick

Breast Pump: Reality is beautiful

Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:17:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bruns_rick - An outstanding message and presentation of what Epinions is or should be all about: honest, real, totally credible. It's just beautiful. This is a guy talking. The ad defines Epinions.com as the place to go for what people really want to know. It's not...

Great interpretation of the book

Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:17:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bruns_rick - She is Catherine Sloper, without charm but a wealthy heiress. He is Morris Townsend, "beautiful," but without means, Henry James writes in the novel on which the film is based. The story is a true classic; that is, it can be retold many times,...

True from page to screen

Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:09:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bruns_rick - Long before a cast of trendy Hollywood celebrities "discovered" Tibet and the plight of the Dalai Lama, Heinrich Harrer, a renowned Austrian mountain climber, lived a real adventure in the mountain kingdom as thrilling and seductive as the...

The book is delightful

Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:17:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author bruns_rick - Today's clear-eyed rationalist will wonder how people ever thought that little fairies could be seen. More preposterous still, photographic proof of their existence was presented to an astonished world. This happened long ago, but we should not be...

And read the book

Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:09:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bruns_rick - This IMAX movie is as breathtaking as an ascent of the mountain without oxygen. Reading Jon Krakauer's bestselling book, "Into Thin Air," will make the experience even more profound. The phenomenal popularity of both shows us more than the...

Contact the author

Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:55:30 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bruns_rick - What if? the scientist asks, and the search to prove or disprove the hypothesis leads to -- more questions. In "Contact," Carl Sagan, the renowned astronomer, Pulitzer Prize winning author and media personality, poses what some think is the...

A boyhood dream

Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:32:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bruns_rick - This book's phenomenal popularity shows us more than the obvious fact that people everywhere have long been fascinated with the highest peak on earth. Once Krakauer's book is in your hands, its subtitle tells you why you're going to read his Everest...

The War to End War?

Thu, 23 Dec 1999 15:53:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bruns_rick - On November 4, 1918, near the French-Belgian border, a British officer rallied his men as they struggled under raking German machine guns to cross the Sambre Canal: "You're doing very well, my boy!"

It was another ghastly morning in...

She wrote a book of Africa

Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:29:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bruns_rick - “I had a farm in Africa,” intones Meryl Streep in this Best Picture of 1985, faithful to the first sentence of Isak Dinesen’s exquisite memoir of the same title, recalling her years owning and managing a coffee plantation in the Ngong hills, near...

Now Read the Music

Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:32:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author bruns_rick - It's a tribute to the filmmaker, Anand Tucker, that seeing the musically-lush, scandal-filled film is almost like reading the controversial book, "Hilary and Jackie." Yet, even this excellent feature-length film cannot encompass the content of...

Book Your Passage

Mon, 11 Oct 1999 19:26:12 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author bruns_rick - If you're one of the few people who has not seen the 1997 film, take the plunge, but first I suggest you read a book, "A Night to Remember," by Walter Lord.

What was it really like to be on the "Titanic" on that terrible...