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An abridged overview of Violence in 700 pages

Sun, 6 Nov 2005 04:17:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - A couple of years ago William Vollmann released this book in a beautiful unabridged version. It was 7 volumes and over 3300 pages. I wanted the book. I had a set in my hands and the decision between eating for the next month or getting the book was...

Las Vegas Tropicana Resort & Casino: A lot of small insignificant problems can still be annoying

Tue, 1 Feb 2005 01:20:22 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - Recently I spent a few days in Las Vegas with my family. For the first couple of nights we stayed in the Luxor, a fine, if somewhat pricey hotel. For the last two nights we stayed in The Tropicana, a somewhat not so fine hotel, but more affordable...

Should have been the new Oprah book club's second choice.

Tue, 18 Nov 2003 03:26:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - James Joyce’s Ulysses is one of those books that lingers in the popular perception as being unduly difficult, an impenetrable text that only the Harold Bloom’s of the world can make it through. In the week that I spent reading this, most people...

Men with Beards

Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:47:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - I believe D. H. Lawrence, despite writing constantly about men and women in a risqué manner for h...

Why would you ever spend the extra money on Mead?

Wed, 27 Aug 2003 03:10:37 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - Over my twenty plus years of school I've had a variety of notebooks. As I got older my tastes would...

Yup, the suburbs were always like this....

Mon, 25 Aug 2003 02:54:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - Richard Yates’s novel Revolutionary Road is an amazing book. It is the kind of book tha...

The one item I would like to have corporate backing for....

Tue, 12 Aug 2003 01:32:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - If I was smart I would have read other office product reviews and seen what is expected of me. All...

Horrific Stories for Bad Children

Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:26:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - Struwwelpeter (or Slovenly Peter in English) is a collection of poems for children written in...

Catching me with all the hooks.

Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:38:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - I always thought that Pretty Girls Make Graves was a goth band. The name is also the title of a...

This review takes place after I finished the novel, but before I died.(3rd edition)

Mon, 28 Jul 2003 23:31:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - There are three ways that I pick out books to read. One is through the convoluted and serpentine wa...

A Tale of Loves that were and never were

Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:46:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - I've seen Murakami's books. Back a few years ago they even called to me. I never read them though,...

A stinker of a book

Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:23:07 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - Perfume the only novel of Patrick Suskind's available in an English translation is a perennia...

A Minimalist genius dissects life and love

Mon, 7 Jul 2003 18:46:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - Note: Originally this review was entitled Minimal genius dissects life and love. Looking...

Cross is inverted for goat pig birth / Hatred consumes nuns of no worth

Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:53:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - Back in the mid nineties in the DIY hardcore world power-violence became a catchall phrase to catego...

We idolize and deify with idle eyes and emptiness

Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:19:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - Back in the day (my 'Salad Days', the Mid 90's) there wasn't a show I went to that someone wasn't ga...

What I saw on a crowded bus, 99 times

Mon, 23 Jun 2003 01:21:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - Raymond Queneau is smarter than I am. He knows a lot of words I don't, he can think in abstract man...

Fighting against the destructive effects of language and movement

Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:52:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - I am generally no strong advocate of breathing. I do not appreciate the labor behind it, the gru...

Raves, drugs, a dead boyfriend and a girl walking through life with a Walkman

Mon, 9 Jun 2003 19:32:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - What a strange little book. The novelist is Scottish and Irvine Welsh writes a glowing blurb on the cover; those two things were enough to sell me on trying it out. I’m not quite sure what I think about the novel though. It’s interesting and...

14th Century Warriors Take Over NYC and USA

Mon, 9 Jun 2003 03:10:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - I'm a sucker for cult fiction (both obscure and mainstream) and for classic pulp novels. When I see either in bookstores they just call to me, really loudly and without shame. I usually obey their call, thus having fun filled times with the Left...

Violent girls, sex, aggro skinheads and boot parties.

Wed, 4 Jun 2003 02:27:25 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - This review is for the second volume of The Complete Richard Allen. The picture above is from the sixth volume of the series.

Richard Allen was a writer of pulp English novels in the 1970's. He wrote novels that were considered Youth...

An alarmist Dystopia that did nothing for me.

Sat, 31 May 2003 02:06:53 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - Note: The picture above is not the version I read. This review is for the Penguin Classics edition of We, translated by Clarence Brown.

My alphabetical reading list is done. Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We takes...

A Dance through the 20th century

Fri, 30 May 2003 01:08:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - This review is for the entire Dance to the Music of Time series by Anthony Powell. It comes in Four Movements, and I'm posting this review for the first book in the series, because really if you don't read the series from the beginning you're not...

A murder in Communist China

Thu, 29 May 2003 23:41:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - I’m nearing the end of the alphabetical reading list. As one can imagine there are not very many authors whose last names begin with X. I had the choice between Soul Mountain and Death of a Red Heroine. The former I had no interest...

For the love of writing....

Mon, 26 May 2003 03:07:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl -

A non-linear Review

Go ahead and click Somewhat Helpful—with 45 plus other reviews already for written for this book I have no interest in re-writing a book report.

An Introduction

In my head I like to...

Vonnegut's finest moment

Mon, 26 May 2003 02:05:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gstahl - I have a suspicion that Kurt Vonnegut loves America. He loves the country so much that he needs to point out it’s faults, its absurdities, hypocrisy, and it’s flat out ugliness. Breakfast of Champions while being an all out assault on...