© 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-eplovejoy Recent reviews written by member eplovejoy en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_415978196612?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - John Steinbeck won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature, but he died in 1968 before he could realize his destiny. The author of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men left unfinished his version of Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~415978196612 Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:22:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_415978196612?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_422336761476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - The Lady Eve (1941) disappoints because it lacks a Joel McCrea moment. It needs at least three of them. Writer/director Preston Sturges also created Sullivan's Travels (1941), in which McCrea stars as a successful movie director... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~422336761476 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:49:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_422336761476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_416870862468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - One of these short stories is the basis for The Emperor's Club (2002), starring Kevin Kline. It's a shame that the Hollywood treatment seems to have done little to draw readers to Canin's rich writing. His prose and subtle storytelling soar. It's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~416870862468 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:38:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_416870862468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_416776228484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - To the dragon, Saint George was a monster. Keeping hold of that old observation about perspective might help one navigate the hallucinatory maze that is the heart of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Grant Morrison's harrowing work of power and insight... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~416776228484 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:05:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_416776228484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_420083306116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - This massive, enlightening history of four giant communications companies is important because the companies David Halberstam chronicles are important. Time magazine, CBS, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post and the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~420083306116 Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:52:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_420083306116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_417837911684?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - Someone will make a movie of The Redbreast. Fans of stories about investigations into modern crimes rooted in World War II will not want to wait. Author Jo Nesbo builds a maze with so many twists that some will have to be sacrificed when the story... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~417837911684 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:17:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_417837911684?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_414660333188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - Brian K. Vaughan's characters in his superior science fiction series Y: The Last Man seem invincible. Shoot them, stab them, have them plunge out of high-rise buildings and they always get back up again. They're like Weebles. It is starting to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~414660333188 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:46:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_414660333188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_416991186564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - Seth Shulman is a reluctant alarmist. When members of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) asked him to investigate what they believed are significant misuses of scientific information by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, Shulman... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~416991186564 Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:05:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_416991186564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_416870403716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - The last man on Earth is God. Or at least he pretends to be to scare off an armed mob that's holding a friend of his hostage. It's hard to believe but impersonating the Almighty is not the most foolish thing Yorick Brown has done since a global plague... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~416870403716 Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:55:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_416870403716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_415620435588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - It looks like Yorick Brown will die because his bodyguard made a big mistake. Writer Brian K. Vaughan, in Safeword, the fourth volume collecting his superior science fiction series Y: The Last Man, plunges Yorick into a dangerous erotic... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~415620435588 Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:31:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_415620435588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_416371674756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - Charles Webb's follow-up to his debut novel The Graduate features a scheme so sordid it makes Benjamin Braddock hyperventilate when he thinks about it. The person who dreamed it up must be desperate. Daring. Devious. Benjamin can't believe he... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~416371674756 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:15:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_416371674756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_415054335620?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - A Canadian pop star named Epiphany has taken over as head of the Yakuza, Japan's Mafia. The world is strange now that almost all of the men have been dead for four years. Caught up in the strangeness, Yorick Brown and his colleagues continue their... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~415054335620 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:28:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_415054335620?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_416205147780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - Associate Justice of the United States David Souter "wept" when the majority of his colleagues involved the Supreme Court in the 2000 presidential election in a way Souter thought was overly political and shameful. Sandra Day O'Connor "cried" when her... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~416205147780 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:29:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_416205147780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_415126621828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - Yorick Brown was in danger when he was just a rumor. He's the only man to have survived a worldwide plague and so every woman on Earth would have a powerful interest in him if they knew he was alive. Some would want him for themselves and others for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~415126621828 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:46:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_415126621828?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_415729225348?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - This fun story about what can go wrong with a seemingly terrific bargain starts with a boy who wants a pair of goldfish that belong to his friend. The boy thinks highly of himself. "Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~415729225348 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:19:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_415729225348?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_414660660868?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - The dazzling Sydney Opera House is now a shooting gallery for heroin addicts. A lot has changed in the more than two years since a sudden plague killed all the human men and every other male mammal, except for Yorick Brown and his pet monkey,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~414660660868 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:11:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_414660660868?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_415499259524?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - In Lord John and the Hand of Devils, her collection of two novellas and a short story, New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon alerts her readers that they should first read her two novels featuring Lord John. "So, if you have this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~415499259524 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:09:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_415499259524?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_414567665284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - Imagine a Superman movie with only Clark Kent. It might not be boring, but it would not be as exciting as one with the Man of Steel. For its long first part, that's what actor/writer/producer Douglas Fairbanks' silent version of Robin Hood is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~414567665284 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:07:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_414567665284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_414289727108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - As he gathers toadstools for a gathering of his extended family, Timothy delights that his relatives are not like other people. He looks at a neighbor's farm and says with satisfaction, "If only you knew what's happening at our House!"... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~414289727108 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:09:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_414289727108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_414329441924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - Lots of people are after Yorick Brown. Some want to save him because he is the only man to survive a sudden and bloody plague that killed all of the other men on Earth and all the other mammals with a Y chromosome, except Yorick's pet monkey,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~414329441924 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:06:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_414329441924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_414326492804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - It seemed that Yorick Brown was having a tough time in Unmanned, the first volume of Y: The Last Man, Brian K. Vaughan's superior science fiction comic book series. A sudden, bloody plague had wiped out all of the male mammals on Earth,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~414326492804 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:04:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_414326492804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_414169009796?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - Early in Brian K. Vaughan's compelling Y: The Last Man, almost all of the world's males are dead and the White House is hit by a barrage of gunfire. The title character, Yorick Brown, hopes it is an assault by the Amazons, a band of extremists who... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~414169009796 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:11:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_414169009796?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_401173024388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - Two children vanish on a terrible day in a small community in Ireland in 1984. They leave behind blood that cannot be identified and a boy who must struggle for the rest of his life with his inexplicable survival of the unknowable misfortune that ripped... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~401173024388 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:56:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_401173024388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_261428252292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - It is about John Lennon but The Hours and Times (1991) gets its only spark from Little Richard. A rollicking piece of one of his songs plays briefly in the movie. For the only time in an hour of unrelenting tedium, we feel a jolt of energy and a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~261428252292 Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:13:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_261428252292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_253857336964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - Earl won $100,000 with a scratch-off lottery ticket but was hit by a car before he could collect. Lying in a hospital bed and encased in a body cast, Earl hears a TV host talking about the idea that if you do bad things, bad things will happen to you... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~253857336964 Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:28:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_253857336964?linkin_id=8003929