© 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-epops Recent reviews written by member epops en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_222915563140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epops - Arkady Renko, Martin Cruz Smith's sardonic and stubborn detective, first presented to us with such success in "Gorky Park", returns in a new story. It's been ten years since his reunion with Irena, the love of his life, documented in "Red Square", and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~222915563140 Wed, 8 Mar 2006 02:17:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_222915563140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_222394355332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epops - Martin Cruz Smith's name looks so ordinary without the middle name "Cruz". He no doubt uses the middle name in full for just that reason, to stand out from the crowd - "Martin C. Smith" just wouldn't have the same ring. For a lesser writer, this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~222394355332 Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:06:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_222394355332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_222083387012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epops - My first impressions of this film were that it was a typical French farce, an interesting look at Paris in the early 1930's, and not particularly funny. Crude French slapstick, casual French sexual mores, French romanticizing of mental illness and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~222083387012 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:37:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_222083387012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_221726346884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epops - Strauss and his followers, of whom Allan Bloom was one of the most famous, have been criticized for taking Plato ironically, that is, interpreting Plato to mean something other than what he said. As a complete amateur in this discussion, it seems to me... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~221726346884 Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:37:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_221726346884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_192246877828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epops - This is an unusually good, short, very readable history of a difficult and contentious event, to which justice has not previously been done. I have read the usual accounts in the general histories (Churchill, Liddell Hart, Keegan, and others) of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~192246877828 Sat, 6 Aug 2005 00:42:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_192246877828?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_192142937732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epops - Bill Bryson's description of his attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail is incorrectly sub-titled "Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail". What he really is attempting to discover is himself, not America. He had returned to this country after... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~192142937732 Fri, 5 Aug 2005 01:44:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_192142937732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_191177985668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author epops - Brent Nosworthy describes himself as an "independent scholar". He is also a Civil War reenacter. In this book he has written an original and very informative contribution to the historical record of the American Civil War. His purpose is to bring... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~191177985668 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:15:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_191177985668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_190389259908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epops - This is a beautiful book. My first reaction to reading it was envy: Envy that her family had the means to send her to a Swiss boarding school to absorb French language and culture. Envy that she has been able to devote her professional life to the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~190389259908 Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:45:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_190389259908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_189325217412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author epops - No one likes "The Blithedale Romance". His publisher didn't like it, most of the critics didn't like it, the former members of The Brook Farm didn't like it, D.H. Lawrence mocked it. John Updike, in the introduction to the Modern Library Classics... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~189325217412 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:26:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_189325217412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_189016673924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author epops - Niall Ferguson is an economic historian who is very good at writing for the general public. He tends to take conservative positions, and positions that are deliberately provocative. He also enjoys using irony, the "tongue-in-cheek" approach, and is a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~189016673924 Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:44:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_189016673924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_188634140292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author epops - This is the only book of Prof. Kissinger's that I have read, and I have to say that I am not as impressed as I thought I would be. There is no doubt about his intelligence and wide range of knowledge, but he has the diplomat's habit of getting bogged... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~188634140292 Tue, 5 Jul 2005 01:03:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_188634140292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_188456603268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epops - This is a basic text in the study of American government and politics, part of a "triumvirate" which also includes "The Federalist" and Tocqueville's "Democracy in America". Reading Bryce's "Commonwealth" seems a formidable task at the outset, since it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~188456603268 Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:39:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_188456603268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_186680577668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epops - "The Federalist" is a compilation of a number of articles, 85 in all, written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, in support of the document approved by the Constitutional Convention that met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. These... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~186680577668 Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:44:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_186680577668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_186098290308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epops - This film has many layers. It is first of all an action movie, one of the best of it's time. Peckinpah and McQueen are synonymous with action. It is full of graphic, realistically-choreographed beatings, intimidation, sexual sadism, shootings,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~186098290308 Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:18:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_186098290308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_185514233476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epops - John Keegan needs no introduction to those interested in military history. He is a graduate of Sandhurst, the British equivalent of West Point, for years has written columns for the London Daily Telegraph, and has written a number of excellent histories... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~185514233476 Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:55:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_185514233476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_184431644292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author epops - Amazon's big strength is its catalogue, which is easy to use and fairly complete. However, since I am interesting in somewhat esoteric subjects, I frequently have to resort to "advanced search", and even then often fail to find what I'm looking for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~184431644292 Fri, 27 May 2005 00:46:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_184431644292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_184428498564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epops - Published in 1982, "The Pursuit of Power" was one of the last works of one my favorite historians, William H. McNeill, of the University of Chicago. He describes this book as being a "footnote" to his famous 1963 "The Rise of the West", a synthesis of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~184428498564 Fri, 27 May 2005 00:28:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_184428498564?linkin_id=8003929