© 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-johngo Recent reviews written by member johngo en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_193610944132?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - Peter Ackroyd has an enormous reputation as one of the most eminent English men of letters, a biographer of Dickens, and author of the novels Hawksmoor and Chatterton. He is a metropolitan writer and the provincial reader, sensitive to the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~193610944132 Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:02:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_193610944132?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_193504579204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - In one of the upper circles of Dante's Hell, there is a place devoted to the punishment of lust. It is a place of complete freedom, the freedom to indulge in joyless, commercial sex, where you get exactly what you pay for. Afterwards you always discover... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~193504579204 Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:44:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_193504579204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_193499008644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - Benedict is delighted to be in Rome taking the first steps in his vocation to become ordained as a priest and is doubly joyous to be taking them at the very heart of Christendom, Roma, caput mundi. His account of his experiences is given partly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~193499008644 Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:49:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_193499008644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_189468348036?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - In the heart of England there is a closed world, and you enter it only through the door marked Pull: you cannot push your way into it however rich and powerful you may make yourself. Born into it, you proceed through private school, public school,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~189468348036 Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:50:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_189468348036?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_186293718660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - Beneath the surface of the society of the late 18th and early 19th century, ignored largely by social historians, is a mycelium of magic which spread its undetected hyphae. Individual magicians, such as Francis Barrett, took pupils at the beginning of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~186293718660 Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:15:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_186293718660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_185002266244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - For me What is mathematics, really? is a life-changing book. When I finished reading it I was elated and depressed at the same time, elated to have spent time learning about the achievements of the great mathematicians and philosophers of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~185002266244 Thu, 2 Jun 2005 08:03:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_185002266244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_184378101380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - The pastoral beauties of the English countryside are punctuated by farmers and landowners, who, having areas of useless land, have room temporarily to deposit unwanted, broken, and obsolete farm equipment as well as terminally broken down cars before... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~184378101380 Thu, 26 May 2005 18:15:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_184378101380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_184056974980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - A mysterious document has turned up in the steaming jungles in the interior of southern England. Written in the lost jargon of '60s hip psychology, entitled Women are from Heaven: men are from Hell it reveals a series of nine, or possibly, when... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~184056974980 Mon, 23 May 2005 08:04:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_184056974980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_182443937412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - In the early evening darkness the streets are unnaturally deserted. Beneath orange street lights a cat strolls across a road usually busy with the evening traffic. What makes the scene disturbing is his speed: a boy on his bike appears. He is pedalling... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~182443937412 Sat, 7 May 2005 07:20:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_182443937412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_173459607172?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - The events described in The skin palace take place in the city of Quinsigamond somewhere in America. There is no such place; but there used to be: in our universe at some time in the past the city was renamed Worcester*, in the state of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~173459607172 Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:12:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_173459607172?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_169183579780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - Some bestselling books are very assured productions, productions by major literary talents, works marred only by the desire for commercial success. These are the books that have something for everyone. Bag of bones, by Stephen King, is an assured,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~169183579780 Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:47:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_169183579780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_165344874116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - The town of Wrottesley is situated in the depressed midlands of England. Without a university in the '80s, the Polytechnic is the only local institution of higher education. Polytechnics were institutions of higher education devoted to the transmission... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~165344874116 Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:58:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_165344874116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_164270608004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - Historical films generally present modern characters in fancy-dress. In Seeing through clothes Anne Hollander (1978) presents a fascinating chapter on historical costume in Hollywood films, showing the changes in Hollywood's interpretation of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~164270608004 Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:05:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_164270608004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_136306855556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - Everybody who is honest about it, really honest, everybody who considers the evidence with an open mind is forced to the logical conclusion that Conservatives* are the scum of the Earth, anti-social parasites who exploit the rest of us, seducing us with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~136306855556 Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:13:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_136306855556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_162105429636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - A pivotal point in the development of consciousness was the recognition of the concept of self-reference. The discovery was celebrated by the Greeks in the word play of paradox: 'I am a Cretan. All Cretans are liars' is the paradigmatic form that has... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~162105429636 Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:32:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_162105429636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161211387524?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - A high viewpoint, looking downwards at a young boy in rags, looking up, holding up an empty bowl: unmistakable, iconic, Oliver Twist. The orphan boy, raised by the parish in a workhouse, cast out for asking for more gruel, running away to London,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161211387524 Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:59:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161211387524?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_160528043652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - 'The dusky fruit bat, father or son might say, the Borneo horseshoe bat, the flying fox. The names! And then the other would take up the chant. The palm civet, the Kinabalu squirrel, the sun bear. Anything that was in Hugh's notebooks, anything that was... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~160528043652 Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:07:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_160528043652?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_159376313988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - This film contains the greatest recorded performance of Peter Sellers, who succeeded Sir Alex Guinness as the greatest character actor of the twentieth century in the English-speaking cinema. These are bold claims, especially bold, for a minor British... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~159376313988 Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:47:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_159376313988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_156926250628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - In The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis writes: 'There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~156926250628 Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:20:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_156926250628?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_158055501444?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - We are what we eat. The flesh and bones, the skin, the nails, the hair, all is made up of the food we have eaten, digested, and transformed into ourselves. Our lives are sustained by fuel derived from food. We are, all of us, the embodied, fading... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~158055501444 Tue, 12 Oct 2004 05:13:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_158055501444?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_156585201284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - I do not like Tarquin Winot. Tarquin Winot is the preciously self-regarding narrator of a gastronomic novel, The debt to pleasure taking the title, without acknowledgement from that of a collection of poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~156585201284 Fri, 1 Oct 2004 07:55:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_156585201284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_156510555780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - 'Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.' The voice, once heard, is unmistakable. The diction is tough but the content is playful and energetic... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~156510555780 Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:41:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_156510555780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_155771375236?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - The character of the author '"Oh Susan!" said Jill. "She's interested in nothing nowadays except nylons and lipstick and invitations. She always was a jolly sight too keen on being grown-up." "Grown up indeed," said the Lady Polly "I wish she... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~155771375236 Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:54:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_155771375236?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_154274205316?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three... I know exactly how the stopped man felt. I had exactly the same experience: 'My Uncle Daniel's just like your uncle, if you've got one---only he has one weakness. He loves society and he... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~154274205316 Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:33:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_154274205316?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_153780719236?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author johngo - 'Torn, most willingly, from an English boarding school at the age of sixteen, to live with a middle-class French family in Passy, it was only some time later that I tumbled to the fact that even for a Parisian family who owned a small farm in Normandy,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~153780719236 Tue, 31 Aug 2004 03:58:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_153780719236?linkin_id=8003929