© 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-cpw1952 Recent reviews written by member cpw1952 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_476242415236?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - William Smithback, investigative reporter from the New York Times, and Nora Kelly, an anthropologist from the New York Museum of Natural History are celebrating their first anniversary in their Manhattan apartment when Smithback is attacked, brutally... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476242415236 Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:13:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476242415236?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_476235075204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - "The Great Gatsby" is a sad book. But perhaps the saddest thing of all is that F Scott Fitzgerald's tragic, moving portrayal of the American Dream demonstrates that the typical American's pre-occupation with the yearning for wealth, class... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476235075204 Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:39:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476235075204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475856408196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - "World Without End" continues the story of Kingsbridge, a medieval town noted for the awe-inspiring Gothic cathedral designed and built some 200 hundred years earlier in the 12th century by Jack Builder. Gwenda, a female medieval... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475856408196 Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:17:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475856408196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475504742020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” is Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s first book, a classic of modern Russian literature and the title that propelled him onto the literary world stage. As for the plot – well, the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475504742020 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:03:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475504742020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475504676484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Lonely Planet's "Buenos Aires Encounter" is a travel guide with a difference! Rather than focusing on names and sight-seeing destinations; churches and museums; or restaurants and hotel, "Buenos Aires Encounter" describes a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475504676484 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:56:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475504676484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475048611460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - The ratings in this little gem suggest that the puzzles range from "difficult" through "very difficult" culminating with a collection of fiendish puzzles. True enough, but ... The trouble with this set of puzzles is that Nishio's solutions focus... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475048611460 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:57:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475048611460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474834243204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - How did this first time author do that so easily?Bill Loehfelm uses a cleverly crafted blend of slow-paced, compelling action together with some down to earth, gritty, even vulgar dialogue to introduce the seeds of the plot and his characters at... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474834243204 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:46:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474834243204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474737249924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Methinks that John Grisham has a mellower side to his writing than we've seen thus far. Certainly "The Rainmaker", rather than being the legal thriller that one might have expected on the basis of his previous novels, is more of a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474737249924 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:35:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474737249924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474592022148?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Henri Charrière, born in France in 1906, was not a gentleman. In 1931, following a shadowy career in the Paris underworld spent in the company of safecrackers, thieves and prostitutes, he was convicted for a murder he always maintained he did not... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474592022148 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:36:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474592022148?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473475681924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Informative, educational, entertaining, breathtaking, moving and (fill in your favourite superlative here!) What an absolutely brilliant use of the audio book medium to combine a book and music into a single format. We have a wonderfully narrated... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473475681924 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:34:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473475681924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472471801476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Long before Mariam was capable of even understanding the concept, she knew she was a "harami" - illegitimate and unwanted. Her impoverished, embittered mother, rejected by the wealthy Afghani business man who had fathered Mariam, spirals downward... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472471801476 Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:30:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472471801476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472319757956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - David Zachary Murphy is a NASA scientist but he’s also a sci-fi lover and a wannabe fiction writer. Repeated attempts have come to naught and, sadly, Murphy realizes that his story-telling skills will never come up to scratch and compare with the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472319757956 Sun, 31 May 2009 14:01:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472319757956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472232529540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - They're not really sure what it's all about and they can't even agree on how they feel! But Dwarf, Otter and Bear - contented, happily complacent long-term friends in their quiet, peaceful kingdom of Lorini - are certain that they must leave their homes... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472232529540 Sat, 30 May 2009 17:53:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472232529540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470871871108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - The opening scenes in "Vanish" are pure suspense thriller with Gerritsen writing in top form. Patterson, Preston, Child, Deaver, Follett, Palmer ... eat your hearts out! Maura Isles, Boston's medical examiner and a frequent... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470871871108 Mon, 18 May 2009 17:25:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470871871108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_470732476036?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - With the mindless inevitability and unstoppable madness of a great mass of migratory lemmings, mankind is hurtling over a metaphorical precipice. Global warming and climatic change has driven humanity to the brink of extinction. The greenhouse effect has... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~470732476036 Sun, 17 May 2009 13:35:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_470732476036?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_466795073156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - No doubt in my mind at all! “Primal Fear” and “Show of Evil” hold down two places in the pantheon of the finest, most frightening thrillers ever written.William Diehl should be proud that, as a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~466795073156 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:42:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_466795073156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_466769120900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Madeleine Frank is a psychotherapist and we all know that a psychotherapist’s role is to enable clients to deal with conflicts, inner issues, confusions, mental turmoil and personal inner demons and to help them chart a course to the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~466769120900 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:53:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_466769120900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_466609016452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - The Hartes and the Golds had been neighbours and best friends for 18 years.So it was no surprise that their children, Emily Gold, a talented young artist, and Chris Harte, a bright, motivated athlete and the star of his high school swimming team,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~466609016452 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:40:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_466609016452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464376663684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Informative, educational, entertaining, breathtaking, moving and (fill in your favourite superlative here!) What an absolutely brilliant use of the audio book medium to combine a book and music into a single format. We have a wonderfully narrated... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464376663684 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:11:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464376663684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464371551876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - In Earth's past, Australia was effectively a prison colony, a place for transportation of convicted felons to get them out of sight and out of mind, a place where misfits, recluses and hard-nosed independents could live or die on the strength of their... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464371551876 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:15:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464371551876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464265580164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - A team of scientists is given the opportunity to study the effects of the acceleration of global warming at the foot of a rapidly retreating glacier located near Mt Fear in Alaska's Federal Wildlife Zone, the site of a mothballed but still functional... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464265580164 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:29:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464265580164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464180973188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - "Hard Times" is set in the ugly and imaginary (but all too realistic) mid-Victorian Northern city of Coketown - a near-dystopian blend of the worst of capitalism and the ravages of rampant industrialization. Its blackened factories belch... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464180973188 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:07:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464180973188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_463832518276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Tennessee's Anthropological Research Facility (ARF), made famous by its more colloquial nickname in Patricia Cornwell's novel "The Body Farm" is a world class scientific institution dedicated to the thesis that dead men DO tell... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~463832518276 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:51:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_463832518276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462401343108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Jennifer Hernandez, a fourth year medical student at UCLA, suspicious about certain details of the death of her grandmother in a New Delhi hospital, flies to India to investigate and to claim the body. Ultimately, Hernandez discovers that her grandmother... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462401343108 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:03:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462401343108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462400163460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - In "The Man Who Loved China", Simon Winchester tells us the beguiling and utterly fascinating story of Joseph Needham - a lifelong learner, a libidinous lover, a licentious libertine, a pro-active left-wing Communist sympathizer, a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462400163460 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:24:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462400163460?linkin_id=8003929