© 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_492484071044?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Finally, a romantic comedy that isn't like any other you've ever seen before. In 2007's Expired the caustic humor is just about perfect for embittered viewers who have achieved some distance from very bad relationships that fortunately ended, but... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~492484071044 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:44:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_492484071044?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_492252532356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Copyrighted in 2008 The Oxford Illustrated Companion To The Bible was not always illustrated and first was published in 1993 with a similar structure by Oxford University Press and Bruce Metzger. That original edition claims to possess over 250... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~492252532356 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:39:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_492252532356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_492013391492?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp -  Inspired by the uncensored A Thousand And One Nights, Ovid's Metamorphoses, books of Arabic and Italian folklore, the Old Testament, the Koran, Homer, Shakespeare and every Lebanese friend he'd ever met (they're all hakawatis or... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~492013391492 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:21:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_492013391492?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_491862724228?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - In 1991 Matt Williams co-wrote Disney's schmaltzy Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken with Oley Sassoon. By 2006 he alone wrote the very gritty, unDisney movie Walker Payne, which is an R-rated indie starring Jason Patric I'm quite impressed with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491862724228 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:21:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491862724228?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_491581968004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Some viewers of the first movie in The Librarian series, which was an adventure searching for the spear supposedly used on Jesus Christ, may recall that our nerdy hero Flynn Carsen got a good look at the pictures of the previous librarians before his... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491581968004 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:23:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491581968004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_491330702980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - I don't think I've ever read a non-fiction book through tears, of both joy and sorrow, like I did with Sunny Schwartz's 2009 book, Dreams From The Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption and One Women's Fight To Restore Justice To All. With a title... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491330702980 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:23:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491330702980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_491071180420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - I first became suspicious of Christopher Andersen's 2009 biography, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Family, when I noticed that his text gave October 3, 1992 as the Obama's wedding and in the picture section's caption their wedding... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~491071180420 Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:59:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_491071180420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490981592708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jankp - Ok, I confess that I once had a big crush on the famous action movie star with the bulging muscles and high karate kicks called Jean-Claude Van Damme. I watched many of his movies whether or not they were that good, such as Bloodsport, Hard Target,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490981592708 Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:34:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490981592708?linkin_id=8003929 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