Epinions Recent Reviews for michealhead

Who Was that Masked Man?

Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:13:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - Note: The Epinions rating scale doesn't accurately depict my rating. Please regard this as three-and-a-half stars.

Now think: how sure are you that you are who you are?

Yes, a wonderful and somewhat spurious little thought...

Where Joe DiMaggio May Have Gone

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:31:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - Note: Due to the nature of Epinion's rating system, my rating is not as precise as I would like. I would rate this book at two-and-a-half stars.

Funny, but the impending work stoppage in the national pastime has me actually growing...

The Making of the Representative for Planet Eight: A Treatise On Transition...

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:53:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - I've always found it interesting to examine the process of change, from the standpoint of both the individual and that of the society. I like to play with the notion of how change, both large and small, reacts upon the person and subsequently through...

This Vonnegut Seems a Bit Out of Tune

Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:09:27 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - Excuse me while I engage in a small bit of heresy, but a small one, however.

I'm giving a bad review to Kurt Vonnegut.

No, the author hasn't somehow disrespected me (hell, we've never met). Still, I think I have to go through a bit...

Of Humanity, and the Needed Existence of Family

Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:09:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - I've found in both my writings and the reading I'm doing here at Epinions that most people come to a certain degree of purpose. That is to say, they find the subject, the thing that stirs their interests, their passions and, despite the meager financial...

Shatterday: Sixteen Wanderings Across The Landscape Of Fear

Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:09:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - "What monstrosities would walk the streets, were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds?"

--Eric Hoffer

They sit inside you.

The small and large clinging terrors, those little thoughts which come at inordinate...

A Story Of Gilgamesh, From The Outer Limits

Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:49:55 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - I constantly being surprised by some of the categories here at Epinions, a few things I thought no-one would post a entries, products to be reviewed. Imagine my surprise and delight at this little entry, a fantastic little story out of the anthology...

Where My Guides Lead Me In Kindness...

Thu, 11 Oct 2001 18:44:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - Our world has maddened lately.

No, I'm not saying we're crazed, although I must say one cannot see our globe in general as being totally healthy. We appear to be in a whirlwind of struggle; ideologies, people in conflict, over differences in...

Spiders and Snakes, and Change War, Oh My!

Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:15:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - Out of boredom (a state of being I've resided in for some time, being in the process of convalescence from medical difficulties) I found myself the other day wandering through the authors list here at the Epinions site (Yes, I know, old masochistic me,...

"We Intend to Destroy All Dogmatic Verbal Systems..."

Mon, 8 Oct 2001 15:26:08 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - Please note: Due to the generalized nature of the Epinions rating system, I cannot give this book an accurate rating. For those who are interested, I would give it 3.5 stars.

Whenever friends in my writing club and I get together, the...

Portrait Of A Loner As Messiah

Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:19:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - I've always enjoyed writers who take risk, especially when they challenge my way of viewing a subject I may take offense at. When I'd first picked up this novel back in my teen years, I thought it just another writer creating something to infuriate...

A Story of Camelot for the 20th Century (The Medieval Write Off)

Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:30:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - This is one of the write off entries for the Medieval write off, sponsored by the illustrious Redmaple and his band of Epinion merry men and women (Who thought PC could reach back to the Middle Ages?). All are listed below: please read their entries and...

Groceries: On Kotex! On Tampons! On Pepto-Bismol Cherry Chewables! (The H2P Write Off)

Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:17:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - This is a review in a write off as a tribute to Mark, alias Hard_To_Please, alias God, Supreme Ruler of the Universe, alias Lucky, the mascot of the General Foods brand cereal Lucky Charms, who finally got fed up with the little punks forever...

A Smarter, Tougher Thrillride

Tue, 4 Sep 2001 01:35:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - I'm a male.

Wow, bet you thought it took a lot for me to figure that out.

No, seriously, I'm just a guy. Not trying to make a grand statement, just a person who has those urges (not those urges and besides, I can generally get...

Not a Grand Slam, But a Solid Double, Scoring Two

Sun, 2 Sep 2001 16:29:19 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - There seems to be a strange sort of alchemy that occurs when Hollywood mixes with the national pastime, one where gold almost always certainly gets turned into a putrid, syrupy mush. I'm reminded of films like Pride of The Yankees, The...

A Vampyre, With Little Bite!

Sat, 1 Sep 2001 01:09:55 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - I must admit, I'd be very interested in seeing a well done remake of Noseferatu, the 1922 silent classic directed by F.W. Murnau with the enigmatic and brilliant Max Shreck in the title role. I recall loving the German impressionist style of film...

An Idyll, In Memories of Summer

Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:25:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - Do you see any magic in your life?

An odd question, I'll admit, but one that might pop up in the eye of the hurricane we call our everyday lives, the blur of appointments, employment, the obligations we assume, sometimes awash in the symphony...

Here's a Uniden..Call Someone Who Cares!

Sun, 26 Aug 2001 19:00:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - Well, ladies and gents, my first foray into the wonderful world of product review. Okay, here goes...

Let's be honest, I got this as gift, so I'm supposed to say nice things about it. At least until my sister and brother-in-law leave. They're...

Wait: If You're Watching, How Can You Read?

Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:43:14 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - Okay, I'll fess up again: I'm a science fiction fan. Oh, the shame and horror this fact has visited upon my family and friends! And, as some others, I've subjected myself to hours of viewing the genre on television (if you love your children, don't let...

Of Psychopathology and Modern Society

Thu, 23 Aug 2001 00:16:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - We often discuss the duality of human nature; how we can see in ourselves both the grand achievements and large horrors our societies have experienced from the progeny of science and progress. Indeed, we applaud the onslaught of technology and how it...

Reflections of a World in Satire

Tue, 21 Aug 2001 01:25:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - Often, a great work of literature gets relegated to some obscure section of the bookshelf. In many cases, it is merely because it is often replaced in the reader's mind by more modern, more elegant prose. Such is the case with We, subjected to...

A Potential Postmortem for Our Planet?

Fri, 17 Aug 2001 16:39:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - "People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it" - Ray Bradbury

We stand precariously perched on a balance of life, one where we exist in equilibrium with the world around us and all other life...

Sylphs and Salamanders, Alchemy and Apocalypse

Tue, 14 Aug 2001 19:10:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - We are constantly confronted by the quest of intellect, in the pursuit of knowledge. The ongoing debate of what we learn and the legal, ethical and moral repercussions of expanding human knowledge goes on all around us, whether it be the freedom of the...

A Tale of the Truly Dispossessed

Mon, 13 Aug 2001 01:27:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - A writer can only write honestly when he writes what he knows, when the truth rings out of the memories, the occurrences that life hands us. In the case of this book by Harlan Ellison the truth comes from two very real and very frightening experiences...

A Perusal Into the Psyche of a Telepath

Sat, 11 Aug 2001 19:47:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author michealhead - For me better writing is when an author has the courage to bend genre conventions into forms which haven't been seen, or a perspective not been experienced by the audience.

In Robert Silverberg's novel the sf convention of telepathy receives a fresh...