Epinions Recent Reviews for margomargo

Where's GerWaldo?

Sat, 8 Dec 2001 17:39:43 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Let’s just keep this between us, but I have a dirty little secret. Sometimes I like Geraldo Rivera. It’s an on-again, off-again kind of thing. I’m fickle that way. I was as puzzled as the rest of the free world by that thing in the mafia tunnel. And...

Ink4Art Online Store: Saving $$$ - It's a No-Brainer!

Wed, 22 Aug 2001 18:20:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - I bought my Epson Stylus Color 740 printer about two years ago, and all I've fed it since then is ink cartridges I've purchased on-line from ink4art.

It's a no-brainer. Take a look at the prices they want for ink cartridges in your local...

If Epinions Ruled the World, and Other Fantasies

Thu, 2 Nov 2000 18:46:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Ah, Election 2000. If I have to watch one more attack ad I think I’ll run screaming from the house. I wish there was a law that only epinionators could write political campaign ads. It would be a better world.

In the hotly contested Bazoom...

"The False Inspector Dew", by Peter Lovesey

Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:13:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Whenever I get my hands on a book like this, I can tell from the early pages it’s going to be something really fresh and different. I find myself quickly thumbing back to the dust jacket, where the blurb about the author tells whether he’s written...

n/a: "Introducing C.B. Greenfield", by Lucille Kallen

Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:03:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Maggie Rome is a reporter for one of those weekly newspapers. You’ve seen the one in your area, where you find the report on the last village council meeting right next to a column titled, “Ways With Tuna”.

Maggie’s Westport County, NY,...

"The Turquoise Lament", and a Word About the Stop-n-Think

Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:45:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - “Salvager” Travis McGee ranges far from his Florida stomping grounds in this one. As the book opens we find him in Hawaii, urgently summoned there by a young woman nicknamed Pidge, the daughter of a good friend, now deceased. The problem is either that...

"The Dreadful Lemon Sky", by John D. MacDonald

Sun, 29 Oct 2000 17:22:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - In the whacky world of publishing, the fact that an author’s name is well known doesn’t necessarily mean that author is a good writer. Some very famous authors consistently crank out one icky book after another, and consistently make one top ten list...

"The Last Innocent Man", by Phillip M. Margolin: Innocent?

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:37:12 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - David Nash, defense attorney, is a very big fish in the Portland legal pond. He has a well-deserved reputation for being able to get a not guilty verdict when no one else can. But he’s beginning to question his purpose in life. The number of murderers...

"Lullaby Town", by Robert Crais: Quotes From the Master

Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:32:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - “The next morning I rose early and was out on the deck again while the sun was still low in the east. The canyon below was cold and green with a faint hint of haze, and high overhead a red hawk rode a growing thermal, looking for gophers.

I...

"Sunset Express", by Robert Crais: Caution - Elvis is in LUV

Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:02:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Faberge must have made some eggs that weren’t exactly eggs-cellent. Tiffany must have made some lamps that couldn’t hold a candle to his best work. But their dud eggs and lame lamps were probably still way ahead of the rick-rack and sequins that the...

"Shadow of Death", by William X.(temporaneous?) Kienzle

Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:47:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - The “X” in William X. Kienzle must stand for X-temporise, because there are more digressions in the novel “Shadow of Death” than Dubya has sniffles. I enjoyed this book, but there sure are a lot of detours as we travel from point a to point z.
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"Free Fall", by Robert Crais: Elvis Rides Again

Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:22:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Here’s another great Elvis Cole mystery. A pretty young woman named Jennifer Sheridan appears in Elvis’s Hollywood office and tells him that her fiancee, Mark Thurman, has been acting strange. She’s worried. She wants Elvis to find out what’s wrong...

"Fever Season", by Barbara Hambly: New Orleans in 1830

Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:42:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - “Fever Season”, the middle book of Barbara Hambly’s Ben January trilogy, is subtitled “A novel of suspense”, and that is true. It is a very suspenseful novel. But it’s much more.

It’s a well-researched historical novel set in 1830 New...

"Monkey's Raincoat", Robert Crais: Elvis is in the Building

Sat, 7 Oct 2000 19:02:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Robert Crais doesn’t waste a lot of time getting into his Elvis Cole mystery novels. Take “Monkey’s Raincoat”. Here’s how it starts:

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“I’ m sorry, Mr. Cole, this has nothing to do with you. Please excuse me.” Ellen Lang stood up...

"Vinegar Hill", A. Manette Ansay: One Small Story, Well Told

Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:48:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - "Vinegar Hill" is the impressive debut effort of A. Manette Ansay, who shows herself to be a gifted writer with an eye for the small details, familiar to all of us, and the insight to find their meaning.

It is the story of Ellen, her...

"Blood Will Tell", by Dana Stabenow: "Hey."

Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:54:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Enigmatic Kate Shugak is beautiful. She is also Aleut.

Being beautiful means less than nothing to her. She lives what would seem to most of us a hard, mean life in the one-room log cabin her grandfather built in the Alaskan wilderness. A...

"Damned in Paradise", by Max Collins: A Book With a Hook

Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:25:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Here's a rowdy little summertime romp for you. "Damned in Paradise" is based on a real case which took place in the twenties, one of the most sensational and shocking murder cases of the century. The book is jauntily narrated by the...

Exceptional customer service - and I love their Express Jet!

Thu, 29 Jun 2000 04:57:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - On a recent flight from Chicago Midway to Cleveland Hopkins, I discovered my new favorite way to fly. The Continental Express Jet. Since I'm not likely to ever have my own little jet, this plane is the next best thing.

In Chicago, we...

The No-Nonsense, Myth-Busting Guide to Fitness

Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:24:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - This skinny little book is the single most important bit of reading you'll ever find for no-nonsense information and inspiration on the subject of your own fitness and wellness.

In simple, concise and humorous words, David Rives explodes...

The Westport Witch Project: Martha Stewart, Warts and All

Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:23:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - In colonial times, when a woman got too rich or too pushy, they called her a witch and offed her. Then the town fathers divided up her stuff. As far as I know, nobody has tied Martha Stewart to the stake yet, and nobody's dividing up her stuff, but...

Like a Guest Appearance on Saturday Night Live

Thu, 22 Jun 2000 05:18:17 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Yesterday morning I had my first and last experience flying ATA, on an early flight from Denver to Chicago Midway. ATA is a discount airline, but that wasn't the reason I happened to have my ticket. It was because it was the flight that would get me to...

"Perfect Murder, Perfect Town", by Lawrence Schiller

Thu, 25 May 2000 13:16:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Whoever killed Jonbenet Ramsey was both extremely cunning and incredibly lucky. Cunning, because there was precious little physical evidence left at the scene. Lucky, because no one could have predicted the disastrous chain of events that followed...

"Fear Nothing", by Dean Koontz: Surf's Up!

Tue, 16 May 2000 10:10:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Chris Snow is a twenty-six-year-old California surfer dude who suffers from a very rare disease called xeroderma pigmentosum, or XP for short. Sunlight is deadly to him, bright light is extremely harmful. He lives in a world of moonlight, dimmer...

"The Brethren", by John Grisham

Tue, 16 May 2000 09:23:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - "The Brethren" is a good book. Let's say that right up front. It's a fine, complex story of crooks and better crooks. Some of the crooks are after money, some are after power, but in the end they're all crooks. This book, from any other...

"You Belong to Me", Mary Higgins Clark: Brain Dead Escapism

Mon, 15 May 2000 04:51:00 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author margomargo - Mary Higgins Clark's books are like those glossy, ad-heavy, no-content, brain-dead "women's" magazines, except you don't have a bunch of subscription postcards falling out every time you turn a page. Escapism must be in big demand - she's a...