© 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-jankp Recent reviews written by member jankp en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_490731507332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Often when I read a long novel like John Barnes' Tales of the Madman Underground, released this year, I'll have second thoughts about reading it at some point early on. The author throws so much at me in regards to characters or tragic... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490731507332 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:11:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490731507332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490640346756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Do you perhaps delight in the audacious display of lots of perky, dangling phalluses? How about while young, hunky, naked gay guys dance and lip synch to campy, brainless show tunes you'll just forget afterwards? Sure, some of you may say, if the guys... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490640346756 Thu, 5 Nov 2009 03:14:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490640346756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490510061188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my alter-ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she was wowed by the Patrick Swayze movie One Last Dance.***************As I watch McCullough and Wynona... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490510061188 Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:57:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490510061188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489821998724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - I haven't watched the other TV movies with a New York librarian moonlighting in the vein of Indiana Jones, 007 and the heroes of The Mummy and Romancing The Stone, but because it's the Spooky Season and I like librarians I watched the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489821998724 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:14:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489821998724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489507753604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - I know you're thinking of or singing the lyrics of the 5th Dimension's Number 1 song "Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine," just like I am and so let's take a moment to fully experience that lovely song that was released way back in 1969 decades before the Earth... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489507753604 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:39:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489507753604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489152089732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Stuart Townsend, the writer, director and producer of 2007 indie Battle in Seattle, carefully researched (for six years) the 1999 riots in Seattle, Washington that broke out when the World Trade Organization held a conference there. Even though I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489152089732 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:20:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489152089732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488966622852?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Being a strict vegetarian, or vegan, where one eschews all animal foods (meat, poultry, fish, dairy and eggs) does not necessarily make a person weak, pale and sickly. Christina Pirello, author of the 2009-published This Crazy Vegan Life: A... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488966622852 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:11:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488966622852?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488618167940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Please consider this passage from Gregory Gibson’s Hubert’s Freaks: The Rare Book Dealer, The Times Square Dealer, And The Lost Photos Of Diane (dee-AN) Arbus: Somewhere in Graham and Beard’s wonderful... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488618167940 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:14:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488618167940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488500203140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - The only good vampire, in my opinion, is one who is decidedly disposed of and not allowed to keep killing hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent people. A good one also does not look like a harmless twelve-year-old girl nor ruin a young boy's life... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488500203140 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:10:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488500203140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488216628868?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Swedish novelist Jan Guillou wrote a few novels before he tackled his 1981 novel, Ondskan or Evil. He wanted to make sure he got it right because the novel was his very personal, coming-of-age story that happened when he was 15 and 16. As... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488216628868 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:16:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488216628868?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488096632452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Catfish and Mandala, winner of the 1999 Kiriyama Pacific Rim prize and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, will be forever etched in my mind as my intimate, fascinating introduction to the people and land of Vietnam. The thirty-year-old... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488096632452 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:54:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488096632452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487770852996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - The three movies I recently rented from netflix.com are, in order of how I viewed them, 2004's Connie and Carla; 1995's To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar; and 2009's Powder Blue, which boasts Patrick Swayze's last role... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487770852996 Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:57:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487770852996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487543443076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - My public library chose for its 2009 "One Book, One Lincoln" book the new fiction release by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks called People of the Book. I'm not always interested in reading their choices, but this time I was. I've... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487543443076 Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:59:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487543443076?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487107825284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my alter ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she was less than impressed with Francine Saint Marie's novel The Secret Keeping.*************They knock again... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487107825284 Sun, 4 Oct 2009 02:27:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487107825284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487079644804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my alter ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she enjoyed the Tim Burton movie Big Fish.**********I'm not sure I can read this, I find myself musing after... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487079644804 Sat, 3 Oct 2009 20:29:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487079644804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486778375812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp -  It wasn't easy for Rudolfo Anaya, born in rural New Mexico in 1937 to parents with different dreams for their youngest son. Neither imagined he would become a storyteller who puts words on pages, even though the child loved to listen to the stories... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486778375812 Thu, 1 Oct 2009 02:01:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486778375812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486334697092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - True horror. What does that bring to your mind? For me, after watching 1922’s silent horror feast called Nosferatu (meaning the undead), true horror comes to life when it reveals the universally mythic qualities of nightmares. In cinema this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486334697092 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:55:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486334697092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486013308548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - The last born of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's nine children, Edward Moore Kennedy, observes in True Compass: A Memoir that he never learned the art of talking conservatively. I think he meant that he couldn't help expressing his political... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486013308548 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:18:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486013308548?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_485795401348?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - I've enjoyed quite a few serious silent films, such as the Dr. Mabuse films, Die Niebelungen, The Passion of Joan of Arc, M and Metropolis. All fantastic films that are highly recommended. I've also enjoyed some great comedic silent... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~485795401348 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:05:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_485795401348?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_485121822340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - People, even babies, died from dust pneumonia, their stomachs filled with dirt and lungs clogged with abrasive silica from dirt. Livestock suffocated. Crops and gardens were eaten by pests on the rampage if not burned up by the sun. Proud Americans ate... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~485121822340 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:39:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_485121822340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_485001498244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - You probably missed this quirky, little indie called Sunshine Cleaning when it was in theaters. I only discovered the 2008, R-rated film produced by the makers of Little Miss Sunshine recently on DVD and while it has some ghoulish humor, it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~485001498244 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:11:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_485001498244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484794338948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Is this 2-DVD set really a collector's edition for Joni Mitchell fans? We have over two hundred minutes in already-released DVDs, that of A Life Story: A Woman of Heart and Mind and Painting With Words and Music. Old fans and collectors... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484794338948 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:23:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484794338948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484681027204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - NOTE - I would've reviewed this book days ago, but only figured out tonight that I needed to use my computer's System Recovery to get rid of malicious attacker called "Windows Police Pro." I did ask around about what to do; confusion... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484681027204 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:53:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484681027204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484163161732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - I've never before read a novel like John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, and I doubt I will again. It's not that its staggering story has lost its relevance today because it and its writer are still... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484163161732 Tue, 8 Sep 2009 03:03:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484163161732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483719286404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my alter-ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she really enjoyed reading Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy.**************I take home a pile of books from the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483719286404 Fri, 4 Sep 2009 03:37:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483719286404?linkin_id=8003929