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This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-siddy Recent reviews written by member siddy en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_490164096644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Being born after the civil rights movement from immigrant parents and living in California, I nearly choked when I saw the title of the book, Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California by Tomas... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490164096644 Sun, 1 Nov 2009 01:04:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490164096644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_490158722692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - What makes "chick lit" so compelling?  Is it because it's mostly written by women for women?  Is it because its recurring themes are universally shared among people of all cultures?  Is it because it highlights women's frailty in the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490158722692 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:33:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490158722692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_332864654980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Most of my international travel before the computer age was done with the help of a travel agent. Mr. Lee, my travel professional, was a very busy man, and he wouldn't take you seriously over the telephone. If you wanted to query how much the airfare... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~332864654980 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:05:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_332864654980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_331003432580?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Babel, written by Guillermo Arriaga and directed by Alejandro González Inarritu, is a collection of four interconnected stories that take place simultaneously. -Story 1- Abdullah, an Arab patriarch, purchases a used rifle from his friend and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~331003432580 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:28:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_331003432580?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_329455406724?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Guidebooks are $25 tools for $3000 experiences. -Rick Steves- Ever since I discovered that other entirely different worlds exist outside of the everyday drudgeries, of choked traffic and supermarket double-coupons, I dreamed of travelling to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~329455406724 Wed, 7 Mar 2007 03:12:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_329455406724?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_328957398660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - On October 11, 2001, five complete strangers, varying in age and nationality, gather around at a local watering hole in Orange County and starts exclaiming loudly, looking at each others' driver's licenses. Their names on the driver's license is: Danny,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~328957398660 Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:27:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_328957398660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_328493403780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Just like a car salesman who doesn't own a car, or dentist with bad teeth, I was ashamed that I've been living in San Francisco for nearly a year without venturing out to discover the city that became home. Sure, the Tony Bennett's siren song kept... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~328493403780 Mon, 5 Mar 2007 04:36:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_328493403780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_328341556868?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Critics and avid movie watchers are sick to death of sequels, prequels, remakes of the classics. We blame the lack of imagination and creativity of the screenwriters who have brought us priceless gems like Cinderella III, Not Another Scary Movie,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~328341556868 Sun, 4 Mar 2007 20:38:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_328341556868?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_289693666948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - "I would say that art school was to me what Vietnam was for Oliver Stone..." -Daniel Clowes, Screenplay **Minor Spoilers Ahead* Having attended and dropped out of art school myself, the title of this movie was both repellent and intriguing... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~289693666948 Sat, 9 Dec 2006 21:15:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_289693666948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_260387737220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Okay, rubbing my hands together in suspended anticipation, I popped the DVD in, hoping for an improved story line and sophisticated Hollywood treatment of the "Il Mare", The Lake House, starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Somewhere along... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~260387737220 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:26:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_260387737220?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_255442521732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - The Indian Caste system is once again the primary villain here. Arundhati Roy's "The God Of Small Things" reinforces the images of stereotypical India, with its unfathomable depth of resistance against change in its basic social structure, the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~255442521732 Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:40:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_255442521732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_208448228996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Yosemite Sam used to love using his plain plastic box. Every time he attended to his natural urges, he would neatly paw through the clay litter and modestly cover his bits and pieces. Although I would absolutely get my chyme churned to pick through the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~208448228996 Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:53:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_208448228996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_196743696004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - History books are all about naval battles, horse statues and fat old men wearing tights and strange looking accordian collars, right? Add to the mix sword duels a la Errol Flynn, cannonballs, and wigged women in bosomy dresses and that pretty... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~196743696004 Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:16:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_196743696004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_195001486980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Kauai is an island on the move. It is alive; it continues to grow, suffer, then thrive again. It certainly is the "Garden Island," the most verdant, lush Hawaiian island that television and movies often portray when a tropical jungle background is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~195001486980 Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:39:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_195001486980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_194677739140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - So many helicopters, so many choices... It was suggested in The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook (5th Edition, 2004) that Kauai without taking a chopper ride was like visiting the Sistine Chapel without ever looking up. I don't know anything about Michelangelo... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~194677739140 Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:55:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_194677739140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_192009637508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Danny, the ever prudent shopper, exclaimed obnoxiously at the pierced-nose male cashier, "That costs FIFTEEN DOLLARS?!" I was standing at the bookstore, waiting for my credit card transaction to be approved, embarrassed to be seen in this company... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~192009637508 Wed, 3 Aug 2005 20:52:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_192009637508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_191274520196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - The problem with guidebooks is that they can never truly capture the feeling as if you're already there. The would-be traveler can spend many hours and precious funds scouring the travel section in bookstores and still never find the right combination... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~191274520196 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:07:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_191274520196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_179811618436?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - The novel starts off with a 30-something Simon moving into a studio hovel in a most undesirable location in London while keeping down a job as a barman. He pimps "crack hoors" on the side and when he's given boot due to chronic tardiness by the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~179811618436 Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:33:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_179811618436?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115433180804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - There are many movies that deal with underestimated youth being given the chance for recognition and stardom. Which path do they take? The safe route, to stick by what is familiar, or the glorious route, which is strewn with the dangers of disappointmen... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115433180804 Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:11:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115433180804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115252366980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - On the map, the Cook Islands are represented by mere dots close to New Zealand and about 2800 miles southwest of Hawaii. It took 13 hours of flight and stopover time aboard Air New Zealand, departing from Los Angeles via a stopover at Tahiti to Rarotonga... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115252366980 Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:57:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115252366980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115098357380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Edinburgh, Scotland. The birthplace of Mary, the Scottish queen. The capital of all things practical and esophagus burning fire water. The land of the misunderstood. The land of a brilliant writer Irvine Welsh, the author of the cult classic, TRAINSPO... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115098357380 Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:24:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115098357380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115090755204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Culturally enlightened friends recommended BATTLE ROYALE. A plain brown paper dust jacket gave me no indication of the contents of the movie inside, so I slipped the disk in the DVD player and hoped for a good time. Believe me, I wish I hadn't. D... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115090755204 Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:36:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115090755204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115087478404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Four never-do-wells rob a gas station, only to find that there's no money in the register. If you were one of these guys, you'd listen to your better judgement and leave before the police arrives, right? Released for US distribution in May 2002, ATTAC... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115087478404 Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:48:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115087478404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_114988584580?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - Yes, folks, it is a small world. It gets smaller as the populations grow and jobs become scarce. Even a traditionally homogenic society such as the Republic Of Korea faces the problem of illegal immigration. FAILAN, directed by Hae-Sung Song, is ba... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~114988584580 Thu, 9 Oct 2003 05:36:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_114988584580?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_114606706308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author siddy - The quality of Korean movies have vastly improved over the years, from the melodramatic tear jerkers that revolved around lost kin from the sixties (Searching 30,000 Li for Mother, Dear Beloved), to cheap thrills(The Concubine, Between the Knees) in the s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~114606706308 Sun, 5 Oct 2003 03:06:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_114606706308?linkin_id=8003929