Epinions Recent Reviews for carradee

abebooks.com: Worth using, albeit with caution.

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:59:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Abebooks.com is not a strict vendor but a database for a multitude of booksellers to sell their books. That makes shopping experiences dependent on the individual sellers and not the site site itself. The vast majority of the sellers, like BookByte,...

A Doll Dress-Up Game for Guys? (DoA Xtreme Beach Volleyball)

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:19:15 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - I am a girl. And yes, I've played this game. Despite finding the consistent bralessness and large-bustedness of DoA disturbing and a bit annoying (sorry, but it hurts to lack support when you're that big), I do happen to like the...

"You're Not Making Any Sense!" (Flower of the Deep Sleep v.2 by Yuana Kazumi)

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:41:35 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - The manga Flower of the Deep Sleep has two volumes, each one dependent on the other for the story. Epinions currently only has a slot for volume 2, so I'll be including volume 1 in this a bit, as well. I've barely read two-and-a-half graphic...

"I Can't Hold Onto Me; Wonder What's Wrong With Me." (Evanescence's The Open Door)

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:56:25 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Evanescence (accidentally) speaks of itself in its song "Lithium," one of the best songs on a disappointingly mediocre CD. Peoples' complaints that "it all sounds the same" evidently have some grounds here; I've listened to the CD almost exclusively in...

Wait... I'm Supposed to Hate This... (Lacuna Coil's Comalies)

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:01:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - I hate death metal. Okay, I guess I should amend that: I generally hate death metal. Why do you want someone to scream at you? My brother insists it's relaxing. I insist comfortably minor key is. We both find the other's music preferences...

The Memories Make It Easier?! (Within Temptation with The Silent Force)

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:08:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Admittedly, my mother didn't quite get my point about that one since she was lost in the potentially depressing element once I mentioned the "Now that you're dead and gone" beginning of that incomplete comment on the song "Memories." Within...

"Am I too lost to be saved?" asks Evanescence in Fallen

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:24:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - I doubt the band Evanescence is seriously asking that of itself in the song "Tourniquet," but the narrator certainly does as she's evidently dying by suicide and remembering her Christian upbringing. The band's caused a great bit of confusion...

"You forget, darling. I am the local psychopath." (Bitten by Kelley Armstrong)

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:00:17 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - I have a friend with a knack for finding fascinating premises with terrible story executions. She warned me that Bitten by Kelley Armstrong might be one of those, but I was intrigued enough to want to read it anyway. Bitten has a...

There's a Reason Most Writers Don't Do That. (New Moon by Stephenie Meyer)

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:08:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - *No specific spoilers for New Moon; some for <
i>Twilight*
She… didn't. If you like character analysis, you can guess a few things that might happen in New Moon, the sequel of...

A High School Romance Adventure What?! (Twilight by Stephenie Meyer)

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:49:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - When a young adult novel hits the bestseller lists, it had better be good. When that same novel is the author's first published novel, it's probably astounding. And that was what I found, upon reading Twilight by Stephenie Meyer...

"Ain't worth a bean." (Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card)

Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:43:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Orson Scott Card wrote Ender's Shadow as a possible parallel novel to Ender's Game. This tells of Ender's youngest commander, seven-year-old "Bean." STORY SUMMARY Growing up on the streets of Rotterdam ain't no picnic, not in...

"[These Jedi] are nothing but troublemakers."

Tue, 8 Aug 2006 18:44:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - The Mark of the Crown by Jude Watson is book #4 of the Jedi Apprentice series. This continues the direct storyline that began in b
ook
1. STORY SUMMARY Queen Veda of Gala is dying. As her...

Happy birthday, Kenobi

Sat, 5 Aug 2006 10:15:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Jude Watson's book The Hidden Past is book #3 in the Jedi Apprentice Series and directly continues from T
he
Dark Rival. STORY SUMMARY Obi-Wan Kenobi had been a farmer—well, supposed to be...

How's the Harvest, Farmer Kenobi?

Fri, 4 Aug 2006 22:27:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - The Dark Rival by Jude Watson directly continues T
he
Rising Force. It's book #2 in the Jedi Apprentice series. STORY SUMMARY Obi-Wan Kenobi doesn't want to be a farmer. He just spent the...

An immigrant girl-bride in 1896.

Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:19:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Many girls, not all of them the children intended as an audience, find the historical fiction Dear America series entertaining and educational. STORY SUMMARY The year is 1896, and Anetka Kaminska is Polish. The Russian Czar rules...

Farmer Oafy-Wan Kenobi

Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:04:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - What was Obi-Wan's apprenticeship like? The Jedi Apprentice series answers that. STORY SUMMARY No more Masters will be coming to the Temple before Initiate Obi-Wan Kenobi's 13th birthday. He hasn't been chosen as a Padawan Learner...

"I am Amidala, Queen of Naboo."

Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:54:28 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Interesting; a set of Star Wars books you never hear about and websites can't get the details correct on… (Uh, this title is Queen Amidala, not Padmé Amidala, as some websites claim.) Sadly, there's a reason that the series...

"My name is Anakin Skywalker"

Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:09:34 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Interesting; a set of Star Wars books you never hear about unless you happen to spot them at Wal-Mart and know they exist. Even then, you can struggle to find coinciding information on them online. (Er, my copy says the author was Todd Strasser,...

Society will have its revenge.

Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:32:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Just because your history professor makes you read something doesn't mean you have to hate it. Note: the terms "negro" and "negress" are used below to stay consistent with the work. STORY SUMMARY In the time of Napoleon, a doctor,...

"Everything I tell you is a lie." (Traitor by Matthew Stover)

Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:16:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Thought-provoking without being directly confrontational, I think everyone will find the Force presented from a previously unthought-of angle in Traitor by Matthew Stover. It, like Stover's other Star Wars novels...

A mild twist to the usual Mary Higgins Clark.

Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:48:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - It seems like many lawyers retire to become mystery writers, these days. Perhaps that says something about the law profession. STORY SUMMARY Ellie Cavanaugh knows who murdered her older sister, Andrea. At seven years old, she recognized...

"THIS FILE IS CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET"

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:45:16 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Like crime novels, I suspect medical crises novels represent a subgenre of writing that has its own devoted following, probably with this as a standing trophy of the collection. STORY SUMMARY "[T]he events surrounding the Andromeda Strain...

"I'd rather be Beauty." (Beauty by Robin McKinley)

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:52:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - How few of us don't know at least one version of the fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast? STORY SUMMARY Honour didn't much care for her name as a five-year-old, when her father tried to explain what honour meant. She commented that she'd...

"I can see where you break."

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:03:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Every so often, you find a novel that shocks you, surprises you, makes you think—but how often does a novel accomplish this without confronting beliefs? STORY SUMMARY When looking at you through the Force, Jedi Master and senior Council...

Let the yearlong interlude begin.

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:20:10 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author carradee - Where's the other half? The thought plagues me after watching Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men's Chest. And, closely following it: Darn, if this does well, it'll probably become a movie habit, according to the Rule of Movie...