Epinions Recent Reviews for slaughterboard

Far Cry From Lonesome Dove

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:27:27 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Len Hodgson's latest book is rife with predictable comedic references and stereotypical characters. Unless you want to blow an hour or two on a work of exceptionally mediocre fiction, don't pick up God's Pocket. Geared for weak-limbed octogenarians...

Stampariffic

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:09:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - I've been using this here COPY stamp for two years now and it's only needed reinking twice. Imagine that! It stamps and stamps and stamps some more without any pain to the wrist. Any trouble with this stamper will come from the human using it. Typical...

Transcendence of Environment

Sun, 4 Feb 2001 06:56:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Along the lines of 'Riddly Walker' by Russel Hoban, The Last Book is an adventurous journey set in an unknown future where civilization as we know it is remembered only as fairy tales. Rodman Philbrick, author of the popular and award winning Freak the...

Bleak Spirits

Sun, 4 Feb 2001 06:40:36 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Entering a world of intrigue and insecurity, a young woman, Anil, returns to her native land after years of renown and research in the United States and England. With a well-wound plot, Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost is a distanced, unemotional looks at...

small and disgusting

Sun, 4 Feb 2001 06:17:31 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Compared to Kirkegaard (as on the book jacket,) Heartbreak is foolhardy at best. A long, laboring memoir powdered liberally with tongue-in-cheek-isms, elbows-to-the-ribs, smarmy winks and perpetual one-ups. For being non-fiction it is filled with obvious...

Vamps and Tramps

Sun, 4 Feb 2001 05:56:45 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Far from winning the Nobel prize, Obsidian Butterfly is dense with details and suspense, making it readable despite slow pacing.

Anita Blake, vampire executioner and necromancer, is assisting a murder case as an expert. The first 100 or so...

Faith in Gold

Tue, 9 Jan 2001 04:04:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Little Saint by Hannah Green is a book for the cynic with a hidden romantic streak; the kind of person who hates "sleeping beauty" and yet weeps when the guy gets the girl. It is for the person who believes in everything; the alien watcher,...

All The Names: Encompassing Humanity

Tue, 9 Jan 2001 03:48:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Jose Saramago, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has produced a touching and meditative work that, in its simplicity, encompasses all humanity. Dynamic yet slumbering, suspenseful yet digressing, tottering and humble in ways only found in real...

Consumer Camouflage

Tue, 9 Jan 2001 00:13:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism is a quotable examination of American shopping habits, from collecting antiques to dressing like a hoodlum. Daniel Harris explains and analyzes the issues and paradoxes that arise, or are...

Mystery Uncle

Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:57:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - The story of an old man's life; how he saw his dream, attempted to reach it and lost control. A tale told by his nephew; as a boy who looked up to him, a young man who questioned what happened and an adult who critiqued him.

Goldbach's...

Not So Worldly

Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:43:39 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - This is a pointless, meandering story told by a reflective journalist whose wife and daughter died four years before the described occurrences and who finds himself stagnant while losing his job as an eastern university professor.

Basically,...

Elvis is Everywhere

Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:24:54 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a land of no alternatives is a collection of articles by Greil Marcus, the infamous author of Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century and writer for numerous popular magazines. This...

Illusive Life

Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:09:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - An Unfortunate Woman was written over a year before Richard Brautigan, the world famous author of "Dreaming of Babylon" and "In Watermelon Sugar," took his life. Like Frank Zappa's The Lost Episodes album, An Unfortunate Woman is...

Theory of Nothing

Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:51:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Written humanely for the novice and expert mathematician alike, Charles Seife's ZERO tells more than the historical story of the single number that has no value,but uses examples to show exactly what Zero is capable of: Destroying our universe.

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Not one distraction

Wed, 30 Aug 2000 06:14:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Zap Mama opens this album with an instant anthem, "Rafiki." I find myself tapping the contrapuntal lines, the call and response of "ra" - "fi" - "ki" "ki" "ki" "ki."

Yes,...

Changing the Music World, hopefully.

Wed, 30 Aug 2000 05:29:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - You can't mistake that Zap Mama is an African band...the rhythms and use of vocals is completely African, "tooom tooom tooom"s and ""leh leh leha"s lace the racy, bouncy drum beats and breaking female vocals. Clean harmonies,...

Perfection

Mon, 28 Aug 2000 02:24:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - It’s no surprise this book was a Best-seller; it’s short. Perhaps that doesn’t make for good critiquing but if you can read at all, this book has every reason to be in your hands right now. On top of being short and of a very manageable, pocketable size,...

To kill your TV or not to kill?

Mon, 28 Aug 2000 01:48:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Challenging, unorthodox, cynical and hopeful, George W. S. Trow’s Within The Context of No-Context is a concise, amazingly brutal and sympathetic look at how television has changed American society.

Trow builds his text from separated...

The Distortions of Time

Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:29:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - This book was given to me by a friend who found it very fun. I looked at the title and thought, "hmm," set it down and forgot about it for a while. When I finally picked it up and started reading it I was dumbfounded. My preconceived notion was...

Everyone Needs Genet.

Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:15:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Applauded by Jean Paul Sartre as "Saint Genet," Jean Genet was once one of those figures who's name is coined into a household word. Not thirty years ago his name would be dropped on television shows as a wink-wink side-joke to which everyone...

The longest read

Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:37:32 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White is an epic mystery with too few characters to fill the pages. Unlike other Collins novels, Armadale or Hide & Seek, Woman in White is engaging until about half way and spirals into a quagmire of unworthy questions...

A Victorian romp for "girls"

Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:13:47 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Sarah Waters debut novel is a delightful, though somewhat predictable, tale of a Whitestable oyster-shucking girl's amazing journey through nearly every facet of Victorian life as a lesbian.

Light and easy, whisking past the adventures and...

The Moonstone: A Must Read, First of it's kind!

Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:49:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Wilkie Collins was the most exciting mystery writer of his time. Moonstone, written in 1868, fast became a massive hit in Victorian England and is considered the FIRST ever detective-style murder mystery, making it a must-read for any mystery fan.
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Age-Old Questions

Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:05:50 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - "Who wants to read about that?" asks Eugene Pota, the elderly writer of Joseph Heller's last novel, and any intelligent reader (who doesn't intend to write a novel) will ask the same question while reading this short, "writerly"...

See The Light of White Teeth

Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:48:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author slaughterboard - Circumnavigating the happenings of three families, from long-dead ancestors to rule-breaking youths, Zadie Smith presents the bleak and blessed realities of living in England at any age and in any Age, while the multi-cultural world takes...