© 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-chahu Recent reviews written by member chahu en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_366855491204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Barbara Tuchman zeroes in on the first month of World War I, otherwise known as "The Great War," in her Pulitzer Prize winning history. This was the most dynamic single-month period of the four-year-long struggle remembered chiefly for entrenched armies... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~366855491204 Fri, 25 May 2007 14:25:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_366855491204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_337694854788?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Tommy Wilhelm's life has reached a crisis point. He gave up his well paying salesman job, stung when his boss split his territory to give his newly hired son-in-law half, just when Wilhelm was due for a vice-president slot. He separated from his wife... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~337694854788 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:53:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_337694854788?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_335684996740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Except for a serious glitch in the remote control, my experience with this RCA DVD/VCR Combo (Model DRC6300N) has been positive. The glitch itself is fairly easy to handle once you know about it, but what makes it serious is that it makes you think that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~335684996740 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:10:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_335684996740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_334690029188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Everett Stone (Dermott Mulroney) decides to bring his girlfriend, Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker), to his family's home for a three-day Christmas weekend. His plan is to propose to her using a diamond engagement ring of his grandmother's (hence the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~334690029188 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:48:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_334690029188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_334225837700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Adapted from the second of a trilogy of spy stories by novelist Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy resumes the Jason Bourne saga from soon after the conclusion of The Bourne Identity. Jason (Matt Damon) has moved with Marie (Franka... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~334225837700 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:01:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_334225837700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_333812829828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Reading More How Stuff Works, you begin to realize that there are many things that you don't know much about. Even everyday objects that you take for granted are hiding secrets that you never suspected. As suggested by the "More" in its title,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~333812829828 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:46:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_333812829828?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_333381537412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - My experience with Zooba has been positive. I joined the book club a number of years ago because I liked their prices, the books they offered, and the unique plan under which you could buy books from them. Instead of having to respond to frequent... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~333381537412 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:46:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_333381537412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_333234409092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Zane Grey's Man of the Forest begins like a classic western. The title character, Milt Dale, a man who has grown to love the solitude of the wilderness more than the social interaction of town life, is making one of his infrequent visits to his... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~333234409092 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:43:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_333234409092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_331714104964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - High in the Peruvian Andes, an ancient Incan pyramid is discovered buried underground. A mummy is unearthed, and when it is examined it's found to be the remains of a Dominican friar. Why the Incas mummified his body is a mystery. Even more mysterious,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~331714104964 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:58:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_331714104964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_330932719236?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Robert Donat stars as visiting Canadian who gets embroiled in a British espionage plot in this 1935 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This was one of the last films that Hitchcock made in England before bringing his talents to the United States four... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~330932719236 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:52:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_330932719236?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_330312420996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - NOTE: The Dimension E310 series has been replaced by the E520 series on Dell's website. The E520s are roughly equivalent to the E310s, the major difference being that they mostly feature processors by AMD instead of Intel. The E310s are still available... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~330312420996 Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:09:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_330312420996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_322889289348?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Why haven't we learned how to write software quickly and easily? This question has long bugged Scott Rosenberg, cofounder of Salon, the online magazine. It bugged him more fiercely three years after he'd begun to write a book about the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~322889289348 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:15:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_322889289348?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_241807888004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - In the fall of 1960 Nobel-prize-winning author John Steinbeck, then 58 years old, decided to leave his comfortable home and set off on a 3-month, round-trip journey across the United States. This book is an account of that journey. Steinbeck gives... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~241807888004 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:00:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_241807888004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_235147726468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe, tells the story of the United States' early space race against the Soviet Union. Its central focus is the original seven astronauts and the Mercury program whose goal was to put men in orbit around the earth... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~235147726468 Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:13:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_235147726468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_180682067588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - I was anxious to read His Excellency: George Washington because I knew very few details about how the United States was born. I knew the general outline of events that transformed the thirteen British colonies into a new nation, born out of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~180682067588 Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:56:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_180682067588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_178153950852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - The paths of Tracy Kidder and Dr. Paul Farmer crossed for the first time in 1994. Kidder, author of Among Schoolchildren and The Soul of a New Machine, among other books, was in Haiti to write about the American military operation there. It... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~178153950852 Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:35:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_178153950852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_167385206404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - It took Blockbuster Video and Wal-Mart over half a decade to copy Netflix's innovative DVD movie rental service, which is somewhat surprising because it seems to work so well. You just visit Netflix at http://www.netflix.com, browse their strong... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~167385206404 Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:01:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_167385206404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161272139396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Bill Bryson, who before he wrote A Short History of Nearly Everything was known primarily as a popular travel writer, tells us what caused his abrupt shift to the field of science writing. He writes in his introduction that he was on a long flight... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161272139396 Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:54:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161272139396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_159138090628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Tom Clancy always has an intriguing premise for his novels. In The Teeth of the Tiger there are two: 1) A Mideast terror organization wheels and deals with a Colombian drug cartel, trading its expertise in how to skirt Europe's security measures... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~159138090628 Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:20:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_159138090628?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_157862628996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers takes the reader into the world of deep-shipwreck divers, those select few, of the many recreational scuba divers, who venture down to depths greater than 100 feet where the best and most inaccessible shipwrecks lie... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~157862628996 Sat, 9 Oct 2004 02:05:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_157862628996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_156320632452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Rain Fall is the first of the John Rain series of "hit man" novels by Barry Eisler, and it's a very accomplished debut. (The series will number four novels when "Killing Rain" is published in mid-2005.) John Rain, or Fujiwara Junichi (his Japanese... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~156320632452 Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:52:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_156320632452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_155856047748?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - I'd bought Daniel Martin by John Fowles when it first came out in paperback in 1978, but I've only just finished reading it. The dense descriptive prose of its opening pages fended off my first attempt, and its disjointed and seemingly aimless... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~155856047748 Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:02:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_155856047748?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_154849021572?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - Constructed like a Chinese puzzle, the kind whose pieces have all kinds of odd protuberances that prevent it from being assembled back into a perfect cube except one single way, Scott Turow's Pleading Guilty teases the reader with solutions that always... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~154849021572 Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:21:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_154849021572?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_153447403140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - "Open Range", starring Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall, invites comparison with Clint Eastwood's 1992 classic "The Unforgiven". Both westerns feature former gunmen who are trying to escape their violent pasts, but are drawn into circumstances that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~153447403140 Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:50:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_153447403140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_152645832324?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author chahu - (This review reveals minor plot details.) I'm a sucker for time travel movies because I've seen some very good ones, starting with the H.G. Wells' classic, "The Time Machine" starring Rod Taylor, and including "Somewhere In Time" with Christopher... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~152645832324 Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:28:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_152645832324?linkin_id=8003929