© 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_491605036676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Having just turned 14 years old, Enola discovers that her mother has disappeared leaving no clue as to her whereabouts. She is torn between loving devotion and worry for her mother's welfare and a deep sense of anger and disappointment at the possibility... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491605036676 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:11:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491605036676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490846195332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Jeremy Siepmann and Naxos Records have created a truly winning recipe with their "Life and Works" series. The combination of an audio book with music is an extraordinarily powerful and compelling way of bringing the biography of a classical... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490846195332 Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:40:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490846195332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490031124100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Abby Dolan was a highly skilled female physician with plenty of upward mobility on the horizon at a major San Francisco teaching hospital. With no small amount of trepidation and introspection, she reluctantly changed jobs in order to be with her... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490031124100 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:57:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490031124100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489355447940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - As a follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons", it almost goes without saying that "The Lost Symbol" is going to be a runaway best-seller. Nor does it take deep literary analysis to suggest that the plot involves... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489355447940 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:33:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489355447940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489351057028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - With over 80 detective novels to her credit, not to mention an enormous number of short stories, plays and even romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie is, by any conceivable standard, a prolific author. Therefore, it follows... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489351057028 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:36:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489351057028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489346207364?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - As a classic, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" deserves its status as a powerful indictment against the history of black slavery in America. With courage and insight unprecedented in her time, Stowe uses moving family tales of a number of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489346207364 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:33:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489346207364?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487840452228?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - "The Monstrumologist" is many, many things. A blood-and-guts, gruesome gorefest; a Victorian fright night with superb, colourful characters on both sides of the good/evil dichotomy sketched with a most entertaining, detailed Dickensian... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487840452228 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:22:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487840452228?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487152979588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Henry Pierce, a brilliant scientist on the cutting edge of nanotechnology, biotechnology and quantum computers, is about to become very, very rich when his company Amadeo Technologies files the patent on the latest discovery he and his team have put... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487152979588 Sun, 4 Oct 2009 13:16:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487152979588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486924848772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Tess Gerritsen's "The Bone Garden" is a thoroughly entertaining, historical thriller that begins with the admittedly prosaic literary device of divorcée Julia Hamill finding a human skeleton buried in the back yard of her recently purchased... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486924848772 Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:28:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486924848772?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486390599300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - In the early years of his career as a journalist, Simon Winchester hatched the rather ambitious idea of touring the globe to visit the far-flung remains of the rapidly dwindling and little known remnants of the British Empire. Although the sun still does... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486390599300 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:26:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486390599300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486174592644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - In a horrifying blend of post-apocalyptic terror and new age urban fantasy, "Armageddon's Children" describes a world ravaged by nuclear war, plague, pestilence, famine, mindless zombie-like creatures, demons and terrifying creatures born... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486174592644 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:14:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486174592644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484475047556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Richard Hannay, a former Scotsman, has been in South Africa for some time working as a mining engineer. Now returned to the UK and living in a small flat in London, he meets journalist Franklin Scudder, a stranger who, claiming to be afraid for his very... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484475047556 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:10:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484475047556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483868184196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Maggie Barnes is an empath. She has the ability to mentally connect with victims of violence, so closely in fact that she is able to feel their pain and relive their anguish through the experience of the violence. She's also an exceptionally skilled... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483868184196 Sat, 5 Sep 2009 11:54:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483868184196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483289566852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - N.B. This is a review of Hergé's Tintin adventure "Flight 714" in the original French."Vol 714 pour Sydney" is not your average comic book adventure story crafted merely for young readers. Tintin, his dog... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483289566852 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:02:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483289566852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483057241732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - To fans of Charles Dickens' timeless classic "Oliver Twist", at least the opening scenes of Scott Lynch's ground-breaking epic debut novel will seem familiar. Locke Lamora, an impoverished, hungry orphan on a distant world reminiscent of medieval... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483057241732 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:34:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483057241732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_482793655940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Great organization, eye-catching photography, well written narrative and superb cartography! DK Eyewitness Travel guides have got it all but, for me, it's the photography that really separates them from the competition. And "Prague" covers it all... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~482793655940 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:00:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_482793655940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_480395300484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Kino is a pearl diver in La Paz, Mexico, eking out a meager subsistence living for his wife, Juana, and their infant son, Coyotito. When Coyotito is stung by a scorpion, Kino is both embarrassed and angered by the fact that the arrogant, self-centered... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~480395300484 Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:24:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_480395300484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_480367644292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - It's a sad fact that world history is rife with complex, deeply disturbing stories of mass murders and genocides by governments and dictators - Germany, Japan and China, Uganda, Haiti and more. The list is all too lengthy. Temperance Brennan, forensic... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~480367644292 Fri, 7 Aug 2009 11:57:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_480367644292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_480361877124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Despite being firmly slotted into the legal thriller genre, Steve Martini's novel "Double Tap" is most unequivocally not a thriller. And while that may sound like bad news for potential readers and existing Steve Martini fans, that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~480361877124 Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:42:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_480361877124?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_479704747652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - In my earlier reviews of the first two novels in Jim Butcher's Dresden file series, "Storm Front" and "Fool Moon", I described Harry Dresden as a hapless, down on his luck wizard, in fact the only licensed wizard in the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~479704747652 Sat, 1 Aug 2009 15:23:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_479704747652?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_479695507076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - We all know what it means to die from natural causes but, in this era of modern medicine, it is an exceptionally infrequent occurrence for someone to be cured by "natural causes". Indeed, the conflict between natural medicine in all its forms -... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~479695507076 Sat, 1 Aug 2009 13:31:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_479695507076?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_479591435908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - As most international spy vs spy intrigue type thrillers are wont to do, Daniel Silva's latest thriller, "The English Assassin", moves from locale to locale across Europe with rather dizzying speed. Silva's underlying premise to the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~479591435908 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:08:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_479591435908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_478948134532?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - There are many, many arguments on both sides of the capital punishment issue. But perhaps one of the most powerful arguments against the use of capital punishment is that, every once in a while, the justice system goes seriously off the rails and makes a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~478948134532 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:15:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_478948134532?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_478856318596?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - "City of Bones", Michael Connelly's eighth entry in the spectacularly successful Harry Bosch series, works on two distinctly different but equally compelling levels. First of all, "City of Bones" is a pure police... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~478856318596 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:50:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_478856318596?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_478850879108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cpw1952 - Fifty years after its initial publication in 1960, "To Kill a Mockingbird" has proven it deserves its place in anyone's list of the finest American classic literature ever written. Written a scant three years before Martin Luther King... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~478850879108 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:50:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_478850879108?linkin_id=8003929