Epinions Recent Reviews for earlytreegirl

helps you see

Thu, 16 May 2002 01:15:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - I read THE GHOSTS OF CAPE SABINE on the heels of Scott Cookman's ICEBLINK. Leonard Guttridge's GHOSTS is better.

This is the story of the expedition led by Adolphus Greely to establish a polar observation station at Lady Franklin Bay in the...

wild wild east-west

Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:27:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - I still think the best Jackie Chan movie is THE LEGEND OF THE DRUNKEN MASTER because it is pure authentic stunts and fighting all the way through. However, SHANGHAI NOON is a good second. Owen Wilson plays a perhaps too-evolved gun-slinging outlaw...

the perfect movie

Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:20:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - Why you should really buy this movie.

--The casting is excellent.

--The dialogue is perfect and memorable. (In fact, one problem with owning this movie is that if you don't watch it often enough you may get withdrawal and certain lines...

do not miss

Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:02:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - Anita Mui nearly (or actually?) steals the screen from Jackie Chan in this excellent showcase produced by Hong Kong stuntmen (and women). Jackie Chan plays the son of Master Wong, a physician, and Anita Mui is his stepmother. The plot revolves around...

Stellar Bruce Lee

Wed, 19 Sep 2001 02:46:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - I'm prejudiced. I think Bruce Lee is great, and I love his movies. The strange dubbing of FISTS OF FURY and THE CHINESE CONNECTION is all part of the Bruce Lee experience. Let us find perfection in the imperfect. With Bruce Lee movies, it's easy and...

Love her, love who she represents

Wed, 19 Sep 2001 02:15:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - I love my Vietnam nurse. Unlike our GI Joes, she carries no weapons, only her dressings, stethoscope, IV drip, etc. The GI Joes know she's fantastically brave and a real woman of heart, so they always fall in love with her over Barbie, even the Barbies...

She's Lara Croft!

Wed, 19 Sep 2001 01:29:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - If you haven't played the video game Tomb Raider (hereafter referred to as Tomb Raider), don't bother with the movie. It will appear to be a strange action-adventure with a difficult-to-comprehend plot.

In fact, there isn't a lot of plot...

my second pair

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:50:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - A new pair of running shoes ought to feel great, and these do. When I went out the first time, I realized that the last pair had too many miles on them for running (maybe not as many as they should have? 150?)

I tried on the new Gortex style...

moms for the sex pistols

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:06:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - Okay, I'm not a punk historian. I'm in my third decade of life and glad I didn't hit the fourth without learning of the most intelligent music ever born. Steal your kid's rap and give them Johnny Rotten, as well as Captain Sensible. Let them know...

the best book i've ever read

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:30:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - Did you know the size of the support posts in the plank houses of the Northwestern Indians? They were six and a half feet in diameter. Dugout canoes were cut from trees of the same size. "The Indians only had stone and antler tools, mussel shells,...

put on those shoes

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:05:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - Runner's World may frustrate the hard-core runner who wants something focused just on them, but this is a great running magazine for just about anyone else (including people who want to save their knees).

Articles focus on marathoners as...

best women's fitness magazine

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 08:54:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - I subscribed to this magazine for about as long as it was around and was very disappointed to hear it would be coming no more (and substituted with the vastly inferior Self Magazine).

Gabrielle Reese always had inspiring words. I liked her...

Go for it.

Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:10:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - We live in Colorado and have owned and enjoyed these snowshoes for several years. We have older bindings which were damaged by being left in the sun, but Atlas replaced them free of charge.

The new bindings are better than the old. The shoes...

I love my Capilene underwear

Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:01:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - I own Capilene tank tops and Patagonia expedition weight long undershirts which may or may not be made of Capilene (can't remember). The long undershirts are THE BEST for keeping warm on cold days, keeping moisture from accumulating against your body...

the heart of the lotus blossom

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 03:19:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - I love well-written ethnologies. By learning about other cultures, we learn about ourselves. But never in such a book have I so strongly felt the similarities that unite all humans, nor the disservice that poor ethnology does by focusing always on the...

rhymeful and thoughtful

Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:10:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - THE SNEETCHES AND OTHER STORIES contains four rhyme-filled tales by Dr. Seuss. The first is "The Sneetches." While I write this review, a thirteen-year-old is sitting here reading with feeling of the initial appalling treatment of the Plain-Belly...

wisdom, inspiration and candor

Wed, 7 Mar 2001 05:14:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - With photographs, brief chapters, and brief histories of ascents by others of the world's 8000+-meter peaks, Reinhold Messner provides a remarkable testimony not just of mountaineering but of human achievement, of life and death, struggle with...

you can sure do something about your life

Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:46:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - Though this book is riddled with New Age and somewhat incredible statements that may make it too implausible for the critical reader, there's much here for the sincere seeker hoping to improve his or her life. A seventh grade teacher of mine was a...

must own

Sun, 25 Feb 2001 06:37:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - I don't yet own this, but I've seen it three times, and it's on my wish list big time. Grace Slick's candid remarks about touring with the doors, her comments about the band and their performance, lend a special sense of presence and history to this...

so glad she's not my little sister

Sun, 25 Feb 2001 05:02:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - Once again, Beverly Cleary evokes extreme emotions with her characterizations of these sisters, the older, responsible Beezus and the young, pain-in-the-neck Ramona. I've read this book repeatedly, and certain scenarios stand out.

One is the...

love it now, felt ambivalent as a child, read it again and again

Sun, 25 Feb 2001 04:48:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - I have read this book enough times to lose count. I can recount Ramona's misadventures, perhaps sometimes mistaking them with those in other books. What is powerful in this story is our ambivalence toward Ramona, a kindergardener who is sometimes...

I'm usually game for this game

Sat, 24 Feb 2001 02:49:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - In brief, the game: Each player starts with a little SUV with peg holes for player and mandatory spouse and possible children. (Player has no control over how many offspring but can pick sex, determined by pink or blue, I suppose; can also pick sex of...

I love this album!!!!

Fri, 23 Feb 2001 05:54:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - I still really haven't gotten over this band's break-up. Their sound is unique and has not been matched (by which I mean successfully repeated) by any other band, including those to which former members of Trip Shakespeare belong. They were excellent...

soothes dry hands--lasting effect

Fri, 23 Feb 2001 04:42:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - I rarely put big brand-name products on my skin. I use toothpaste without flouride (alternating natural varieties), natural oils for bath (love olive oil for skin), powdered milk for a cleanser.

My hands were in water often this winter, and...

love it

Fri, 23 Feb 2001 04:31:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author earlytreegirl - This review will cover both the Ceramide Night and Ceramide Day creams. The Day cream is lighter and goes on smoother, and I slightly prefer it and like generic tretonoin (sp?) (Retin-A) for night.

Generally, I like low-maintenance, natural...