Epinions Recent Reviews for niccy6

Change is BAD

Thu, 1 May 2003 15:41:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - Surprisingly, my hometown of Boise Idaho is a mecca for tasty nibbles in the barren desert. Downtown is chock-full of good dining establishments, many of which are nice but still affordable. If you are hungry for mediterranean, japanese, mexican,...

Looking for some spice? Keep looking.

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:04:28 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - My hometown of Boise, Idaho has no restaurants of note (at least according to epinions.com), so when my brother selected the House of Blues for one of our meals during my recent visit to Boston I was thrilled. Finally, I was going to be able to show off...

The little phone that could . . .

Mon, 17 Dec 2001 19:55:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - This was originally posted 12/28/00, but the epinions database has been altered, making this review impossible to find except from my profile page. I am reposting it in the correct place. Thanks!

Before I get started here, until about...

Hurless Brothers Foreign Car: I love my mechanics!

Mon, 5 Nov 2001 19:03:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - Last September I was in the market to buy a new car. Well, a new-to-me-car. I didn’t have much to spend nor much coming with which to make payments. I test drove a number of early-nineties Ford Escorts. Has a car been made that held up worse that a...

Interest-free reading: why I quit Leaving Eden

Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:45:35 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - I am going to begin this opinion by admitting to you all that I only read the first half of this book. If someone disagrees with my assertions (and tells me that the second half makes the first worthwhile) I'll go back and finish it, but you’ll have...

A Book for all Doctors: Now You Too Can Answer Every Question

Mon, 30 Jul 2001 19:09:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - As far as I can tell, the American public expects their doctors to be minutely specialized but to also have an up-to-date knowledge of pretty much every medical calamity known to the human body. I’m here to tell you we can’t have it both ways. Doctors...

“Literary Theory? Why?”

Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:02:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - I hear those murmured grumblings. I understand that literary theory doesn’t sound like anything very exciting—the common perception is anything with the word theory in the title must be boring and difficult to understand. That’s why I’ve decided to...

Bryce Canyon National Park: I'll whap whiney five-year-olds with my Thermarest for feeding the friendly rodents.

Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:14:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - My favorite part of Bryce Canyon National Park definitely has to be the Sunset campground. None of that fancy-schmancy noisy and obtrusive RV lot at the North campground for me (although it does provide easy access on foot to many of the breathtaking...

Lewis & Clark College: Lewis & Clark College, home of long hair and smelly dogs

Fri, 25 May 2001 16:51:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - As I rolled up the cobblestone drive toward the Manor House the first time, I felt like I had finally found the place for me. I was on a long trip of college visitations up and down the Pacific Coast attempting to decide which school I would attend the...

Dates: Let's all take out this fabulous fruit!

Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:02:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - General Information

Dates grow on the date palm tree (Phoenix dactylifera). These hardy trees have been the staple food and chief source of wealth in the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East. Spanish missionaries carried the...

Postmodern Sex Goddess, Nicola Six, Please Stand Up!

Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:03:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - London Fields (1989)

This is a fantastic book. Some people think it's intimidating, that it's hard. I'm here to tell you its not. Amis's prose is clear and succinct. In many ways this is the bestselling murder mystery it appears to...

No, it's empty. They took everything but the shirt on my back.

Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:22:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - Mr. and Mrs. Ransome arrive home from the opera to an empty flat. Of course the children are gone, for this middle aged couple never had any. No, this is something different altogether. The flat is empty-all of their possessions were gone-down to the...

Tradition in T.S. Eliot

Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:53:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - **This review discusses ONE of the essays found in this collection, Tradition and the Individual Talent**

T.S. Eliot's essay, Tradition and the Individual Talent (1920) is one of the earliest offerings of his literary...

Redwood National Park: Hostelling, Part I: Redwood National Park (Leggett Valley)

Wed, 3 Jan 2001 20:07:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - Every year, the last week in March is Spring Break for my mother (a teacher). We spend this week travelling, preferably on the cheap. The year we initiated Spring Break travel we drove from Boise to Corvallis, OR, then to the Redwoods Hostel near...

Is Love and Longing ultimately just weak tea? Pt. 1

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:33:17 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - Nicola: WaltLockley and I are going to do a book review together. This is the first half is here under my name, and the second half is under his. Here, Walt, you go first.

Walt: Okay, Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra is a...

The low-down on Amis's Experience . . .

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:35:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - I really want to tell you about this book I recently read. My favorite author, Martin Amis, has written a memoir called Experience. Martin has been much discussed by the media-and I've read most of what I could get my hands on-but I was really...

Boise: Boise, Idaho: a desert oasis?

Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:58:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - Desert Oasis?

Okay, maybe I shouldn't go that far. But it is pretty nice here. French trappers-some of the first Europeans in the area-called this green valley surrounded by high desert Les Bois meaning "the trees." The name...

Materialism and Matrimony in Pride and Prejudice

Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:22:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - Plot Details: This review reveals major details of the plot. If you don't want to know how it all works out, don't read on.

In the modern Western world, the union of two people is usually seen as the meshing of two hearts very much in...

Orthodoxy v. Understanding: Roth's "Conversion of the Jews"

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:47:08 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - Philip Roth's story, "The Conversion of the Jews," reveals how orthodoxy in religion clouds the true purpose of spirituality-to uplift the soul. It is the story of young Oscar Freedman, about to make his passage into manhood through the...

Final offering from one of Sub Pop's best.

Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:19:53 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - Velocity Girl is quintessential indie rock-even on gilded stars and zealous hearts, their last and most studio-heavy album released in 1996. Around in an age when indie musicians were running to the major labels after the Nirvana phenomenon,...

Journey to Ithaca: Enlightenment of Postcolonialism

Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:31:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - Western Decline, Eastern Increase: Matteo, Sophie and the Mother as Postcolonial Metaphors in Anita Desai's Journey to Ithaca

The study of postcolonial literature is an attempt to find a framework through which to understand the...

The Robber Bride: Atwood's feminist fairy tale.

Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:22:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - I've been trying to write a review of this book for the last week. Unsuccessfully. So I'm starting over. There is a lot of depth in this book that I could discuss in a very literary manner, but I don't think that is what people should know about this...

I really tried to love A Widow for One Year . . .

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:20:56 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - The entire time I was reading this book, I questioned myself over and over-"why do you like this" or "why do you keep reading." But I couldn't put it down. I finished it about a week ago, and have been thinking about it since. I...

Yellow Flowers: Frame's meditation on colonization

Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:46:13 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - Reclamation of Death

This novel is a meditation on life and language rather than the "lives" of her characters. Godfrey, Beatrice and their family are representative of something larger, more universal. The title is a symbol that...

My Skin Trip is soft and luxurious, never greasy and slimy.

Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:49:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author niccy6 - I live in a desert. It is very dry here. I hate lotions that leave a greasy film for hours after they have been applied. Mountain Ocean Skin Trip is the only lotion I have ever found that is film-free. The consistency of this lotion is very runny,...