Epinions Recent Reviews for chancel

The Bad Beginning: a good beginning.

Sun, 30 Jul 2000 16:48:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book One.

A fictional series by a fictional author, whose harperchildrens.com homepage is (very obviously on purpose) of no use whatsoever, A Series of Unfortunate Events takes a partly-Dickens, partly-gothic,...

Young Americans: Premiere teen programming, and a cool, refreshing Coca-Cola

Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:02:53 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - Young Americans (a Coca-Cola summer presentation) is set at a prestigious boys' summer school/actual school (?) called Rawley, not Raleigh, which is what I expected. Hey, the WB apparently has contacts all over NC. I was half guessing they were...

Like the beginning of WWII: Harry grows up and out

Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:01:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - ** GUARANTEED SPOILER-FREE REVIEW **

** BASED NEARLY SOLELY ON MENTAL/EMOTIONAL PROCESSES **

This book blew into my head with ten times the strength of the other three. There is just no comparison.

The previous...

East side Arabicas: pick the one that’s right for you

Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:07:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - Arabica (say it with me: AIR-ah-BEE-ca, but they use ah-RAB-ih-ca beans. Confusing, no?), Cleveland’s own particular coffeeshop of champions, offers a fine coffee or tea experience no matter which shop you pick. Drinks are approximately the same...

B'loons! Apple juice!

Wed, 3 May 2000 16:09:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - This 1996 solo release by Petra Haden, who supplied violins and vocals in the quartet that dog, is pure genius. Petra focuses on the various incidents of childhood, combining fantasy with reality in a way not often seen in music today.

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I'm only slightly crushed.

Wed, 3 May 2000 14:46:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - The second album by lovely girl-punks that dog maintains much more of a traditional punk tone than the first. Whereas the debut relied on delicate harmonies and the contrast between Petra's violin and Anna's electric guitar, this second release...

"Dolan: it was like the name of a woman who washed clothes."

Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:42:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - I hung this quote from Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in the basement laundry room of my freshman dorm, named (semi-obviously) Dolan Hall. Dolan is a mostly-freshman and all-female dorm, three stories plus basement, with the same...

I'm so ashamed.

Tue, 7 Mar 2000 01:09:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - The lies, the selfishness, the terrible acting, the annoying characters, the big words tossed around with the grace and agility of a circus seal playing the trumpet badly--I Love Dawson's Creek.

Wait! Don't go yet!

I actually have...

Montgomery, Lucy Maud: Montgomery, romanticism, and the woman's place

Sun, 5 Mar 2000 22:01:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - I should start by saying what a terrible time I'm having writing L. M. Montgomery reviews. See, I grew up on these books. I've read and reread nearly every book she's ever written, and have a mildewed copy of Anne of Avonlea from sixth grade...

Punk rock is not just about kids yelling.

Sat, 4 Mar 2000 22:24:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - The debut album from that dog. is nothing short of a bunch of happy kids jumping up and down, singing about the man in line in front of them at the cafeteria, inviting a boyfriend to a family picnic, the tragic changing of area codes, Eddie Vedder, and...

It's not about Nicole Kidman.

Wed, 1 Mar 2000 20:17:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - This Australian 1993 film directed by John Duigan, a sequel to 1988's The Year my Voice Broke (which I actually haven't yet got my hands on), is just astounding. I first caught a glimpse of it four years ago, flipping idly to the Bravo channel,...

Where's the plot?

Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:03:11 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - I've been an L. M. Montgomery fan and an avid collector of her books for years. On the whole, the books are a great introduction to Prince Edward Island, to well-developed characters with spirit, to the characteristic romanticism that many girls love...

Social satire!

Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:47:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - You can tell this is going to be a good book just from the chapter titles.

Part I:

1. The Bertolini

2. In Santa Croce with No Baedeker

3. Music, Violets, and the Letter "S"

4. Fourth Chapter

5. Possibilities...

The landscape really is that important

Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:27:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - I guess a negative view of this supposedly horrific "lack of plot" in My Antonía could be rooted in two things:

1. not understanding the importance of land

2. being forced to read it in high school

I'm not going to...

Cricket: inspiration and imagination

Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:41:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - I got this magazine for years as a kid, and I do mean years. I loved it. I worshipped it. I have at least one particularly good issue here at grad school with me. And what am I in grad school for? Creative writing. I am more than willing to say...

Harry vs. Harriet--

Fri, 21 Jan 2000 15:52:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - Sooo, Harry Potter--Harry Potter?

I'm addicted to books in the first place, so getting addicted to this series wasn't all that much of a shock. Especially since I already knew it was being hailed high and low blah blah blah J. K. Rowling blah...

Girl, Interrupted

Fri, 14 Jan 2000 17:36:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - So I went to Barnes and Evil Corporate Monster the other day, in order to sit in the café and have a cup of tea of inquiry, which tastes like rice and which for some reason I can only find there. So I ran all over the store trying to find something to...

Jayne Mansfie--oh, wait.

Wed, 15 Dec 1999 00:10:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - So tonight I took advantage of the Michigan's free finals-week screening of the new Mansfield Park. Free always helps, right? But this time it didn't have to.

The short story: Fanny Price (Frances O'Connor), poor but intelligent heroine,...

Who doesn't love John Cusack?

Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:47:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - I rented this a couple weeks ago in order to get a certain boyfriend who had never seen it (or Better Off Dead! Where was he, under a rock?) to realize the glory of the 80's movie, particularly this one. And he did.

In this absolute classic,...

Potok, Chaim: The Chosen: concepts of vision

Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:41:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - Chaim Potok: The Chosen

Let me first say that I have never had much experience with Judaism in general, and Hasidim not at all. My university was surrounded by an Orthodox neighborhood, but the university itself was Catholic, and the contact...

Tech theatre, rejoice

Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:42:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - I worked tech theatre for eight years, with setbuilding as primary focus for about five of those years. From this, I have discovered there is only one drill worth using--the Makita.

We had several different models, all with cases, multiple...

Nice to visit, but I had to live here...

Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:32:11 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - Wilmington, with its surrounding beaches, is located in southeast North Carolina, on Cape Fear, and is a hot tourist spot roughly from April until September every year. There are reasons, yes, mostly centering on there being this big ocean and places to...

Marvin the Mar--Album! Marvin the Album.

Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:30:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - Frente! Marvin the Album

A terribly charming debut album from a similarly charming Australian quartet. Just from the title (and the cover--fishies!), I expected this to be a silly and fun album. I didn’t expect it to be something I borrow...

"A Survival Guide for Idiots"

Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:56:41 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - I suspect the editors and writers of P.O.V. for Men didn't intend my main reaction to be revulsion. Or maybe they did! Who knows, a magazine this blatantly sexist could easily encourage that kind of thing! I would not be surprised in the least.
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Robinson, Marilynne: Housekeeping

Sun, 14 Nov 1999 20:48:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author chancel - Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping

I got this book in Portland, at Powell’s, and read in the car on the way back up along the river border, on our way to Washington. This was an appropriate place to read it.

Housekeeping is her first...