Epinions Recent Reviews for erik_kosberg

The Pink Circle of Hell

Sat, 23 Jun 2001 08:11:20 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - The Men With the Pink Triangle is one of only a handful of books about the Nazi persecution and murder of gays in the Third Reich and its occupied territories. It tells the story of a gay man from Vienna who was arrested in 1939 and served time in...

The One-Man Itchy and Scratchy Show

Wed, 22 Nov 2000 19:32:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - I’ve had a nasty cough for a month now. The type that rattles your ribcage and leaves you groaning. The type that your family and coworkers get really tired of hearing. The type that gets progressively worse no matter what you do. Three weeks ago I went...

An important but flawed book

Mon, 6 Nov 2000 00:36:59 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals consists of twelve chapters, each skewering a member of the leftist establishment: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Percy Shelley, Karl Marx, Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Bertolt Brecht, Bertrand Russell,...

Now is the winter of our discontent

Tue, 24 Oct 2000 01:11:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - I must first admit to a bias when it comes to Shakespeare’s plays. The part of me that’s set in its ways prefers to see them played in the era that they are derived from. On a gut level, I expect to see Antony and Cleopatra set in the ancient...

Banned Books Write-Off

Sun, 1 Oct 2000 01:40:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men,

Gang aft agley,

An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,

For promis’d joy!

— Robert Burns

The urge to control other’s lives and restrict what they read seems to be just below...

The Bore Drags On

Tue, 12 Sep 2000 03:06:38 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - Tom Clancy’s latest novel in the Jack Ryan series, The Bear and The Dragon, reads more like the first draft of a movie script than a finished novel. There are even ready-made product placements for Newport, Virginia Slims, and Diet Coke. There’s...

Noka Sippi Resort

Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:20:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - I’ve driven the 130 miles north from Minneapolis to the Brainerd lakes area almost every summer for the last ten years. Originally it was just me and my wife; since we became parents, our little buckaroo has made the trip with us (“Dad, are we there...

When the voice speaks, I listen.

Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:39:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - “I was surprised to see a white man walk into Joppy’s bar. It’s not just that he was white but he wore an off-white linen suit and shirt with a Panama straw hat and bone shoes over flashing white silk socks. His skin was smooth and pale with just a...

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

Sun, 6 Aug 2000 22:15:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - “In London, where Southhampton Row passes Russell Square, across from the British Museum in Bloomsbury, Leo Szilard waited irritably one gray Depression morning for the stoplight to change. A trace of rain had fallen during the night; Tuesday,...

Death, Lies, Forgetable

Sat, 5 Aug 2000 22:03:01 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - “Haitian men, they insist that their women are virgins and have their ten fingers.

According to Tante Atie, each finger has a purpose. It was the way she had been taught to prepare herself to become a woman. Mothering. Boiling. Loving. Baking...

Myth and Psychology on a Gondola

Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:09:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - Gustav von Aschenbach is a cultured man, a major figure in German literature, very sure of himself and his place in the world, well aware of the pressures faced by “true artists”. He’s carefully studied his career and consciously abandoned the writing...

The Dark Side of Charm City

Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:08:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - David Simon, former Baltimore Sun crime reporter and author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (the inspiration for the critically-acclaimed NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street) teamed up with Edward Burns, a retired...

Orwell, George: The Road to Room 101

Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:48:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - Who among us has not read Animal Farm and 1984 at some point in our lives? “Big Brother is Watching”, “Thought Police”, “Newspeak”, and “Orwellian” have been added to the English language, an indication of Geoge Orwell’s importance to...

A memoir of revolutionary times

Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:56:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - In Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation, Karla Jay writes of her experiences during the late 1960’s when she was involved with the anti-war effort, the women’s liberation movement, gay rights, and lesbian activism.

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Manuscripts don't burn

Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:01:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - Satan (sort of), Jesus (almost), a large talking black cat, Communist apparatchiks, Pontius Pilate, literary hacks, patients in an insane asylum — all these and more are characters in Mikhail Bulgakov’s complex novel The Master and Margarita.
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QuarkXPress: Industrial Strength Publishing Software

Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:44:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - Quark XPress is powerful professional-level publishing software for everything from brochures and ads to annual reports and books. It is the standard professional page layout software used by graphic design professionals throughout the world and is...

They're here already! You're next!

Wed, 7 Jun 2000 01:27:55 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - “It started, for me it started, last Thursday. In response to an urgent message from my nurse, I hurried home from a medical convention I’d been attending. At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn’t. Something evil had taken possession of...

Good but not quite what I expected.

Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:37:17 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - Robert Nye’s delightful The Late Mr. Shakespeare is told by Robert Reynolds alias Pickleherring who joined Shakesperare’s troupe of actors as a boy but who is, at the time of writing the biography, an old man living somewhat shabbily above...

Step 1: Drink, Write, Drink. Step 2: Go To 1.

Thu, 25 May 2000 19:04:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - In his introduction to the Vintage Books/Black Lizard reprint of Now and On Earth, Stephen King remarks that

“Big Jim Thompson was and is big in my own mind because he wasn’t afraid of the jungle in the lunchroom, he wasn’t afraid of the sh*t...

Decent, but could have been better.

Fri, 5 May 2000 00:17:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - Saul Bass. Ivan Chermayeff. Milton Glaser. Paul Rand. Ikko Tanaka. Henryk Tomaszewski. If you have a background in graphic design, advertising or cinematography, you recognize at least one of those names, and probably several of them. The Ginza Graphic...

Will It Become Silicon Tundra?

Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:17:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - The Twin Cities is a mid-sized urban area with a wide assortment of interesting things to do and see. I’ve lived here since 1974 (New Jersey’s biggest export is people), moving back and forth between Minneapolis and Saint Paul several times. The Twin...

A mystery on the fringes of Festung Europa

Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:04:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - The tide of war has turned, Stalingrad has fallen. The lies spoken by the Minister of Propaganda and Information are still believed by the vast majority of German civilians but as Major Lentsch returns from leave in the Fatherland to resume his duties...

The 5750 is a workhorse

Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:13:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - Desktop color inkjet printers are fine for the home user (I’ve got an Epson 740 at home); all but the smallest of businesses will want at least a black and white laser printer or a color one if they can afford it. I work in a graphic design studio; we’d...

A Man and His Poodle

Mon, 13 Mar 2000 03:16:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - John Steinbeck was already a successful writer when his desire “to be someplace else” led him to fill up his pickup truck (named Rocinante after Don Quixote’s horse) with supplies and drive across the U.S. in search of the real America accompanied by his...

iMac: Ironic remake of Apple's 1984 Big Brother ad?

Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:54:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author erik_kosberg - Wow. If aired, this ad will be remembered for a long time, both positively and negatively.

Focus on the commercial not broader issues. Okay I’ll try to, but a lot of people won’t like the ad specifically because of the “broader...