Epinions Recent Reviews for sleeper54

Curly Top || yeah ...she is way too cute.

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:28:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ...There was a time when a young girl ruled the entertainment world. Dimpled cheeks, curly hair, bright expressive face; with a flurry of short films in the early 1930s the diminutive Shirley Temple captured the public's imagination as perhaps no...

Warm Delights in the afternoon: Betty Crocker warms my cockles...

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:50:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ...There is a lot to be said for 'home cookin'. You know what ingredients go into the dish, how it was prepared, how healthy it really is. That said, the modern food consumer lusts after convenience, speed, easy prep/clean-up, and satisfying...

Journeys of a Lifetime:... || by water, road, rail, foot, even by armchair...

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:48:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ...When you choose a magazine or book or video emblazoned with the familiar standing yellow rectangle of National Geographic you know you are going to get excellent photography, literate text and captioning, and a great overall package. At least that...

Love is a Mix Tape || Love is an unsung song...

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:06:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... It has been a long time since a story punched me in the stomach, pushed me to the ground scraping my knees. I quickly regained my composure, scanned back to the beginning of the paragraph ...re-read slowly, carefully, as if I were proofreading...

Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace: 1957-1958 || Boys will be boys...

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:22:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... Any parent can tell you: boys differ from girls, in ways other than just their 'plumbing'. Despite the objections of today's sociologists, psychologists, and 'do-gooders' of all stripes ...boys are different. This was a fact accepted without...

The Monty Python Instant Record Collection || Recycling some funny bits...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:12:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... Humour is definitely something internalized ...definitely personal. My 'hilariously funny ' is perhaps your 'stupidly lame '. My 'laugh out loud ' is your 'yawn, is it over yet..?? ' Surely you have heard the old...

The Heckler: The Heckler || ' Life as sports fans in Chicago '

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:20:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... heck - le: [hek-uhl] –verb (used with object) 1. to harass ((a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger. –Related forms heckler,...

Sam Van Rood - Teach Yourself Flirting: Teach Yourself: Flirting || Get your flirting game on..!!

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:23:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... I seem to be in touch with my feminine side lately. This summer I have polished off a parody of Jane Austen; finished a book on 'street education 101: a relationships guide for women'; read a book about 'slightly bad girls of the...

Clea Hantman - 30 Days to Getting over the Dork You Used to Call Your Boyfriend: A Heartbreak Handbook: 30 Days to Getting over the Dork... || You go girl..!!

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:29:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... We have all been there, one time or another: dark, angry, broken, oh so depressed, simply unable to go on. You swear the walls are closing in ...trying to squeeze the last breath from your lungs and the last spark of life from your soul. Yeah,...

A Century of Jazz:... || more scrapbook than history...

Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:07:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... Jazz, along with 'the blues', is one of the few musical genres of predominately American origin. Blues, Negro spirituals and field work songs, and the ragtime music of Scott Joplin began to blend together in the late 1800s and early 1900s to create...

We Are Marshall || Casting out the ghosts of what would have been...

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:36:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... The great NFL coach Vince Lombardi is often credited with saying: "Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing." At the professional level, of all sports, that might be true. But too often we forget competition in sports is also intended...

Pinch a Penny Till It Screams:... || Keep your money...

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:51:12 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... 'Psst ...hey, over here. Wanna save a penny or two..?? Wanna save some real bucks..?? . . .Do not buy this book..!' I really feel bad about that recommendation. Author Madeline Clive brings honest intentions and a pure heart to her book...

Kenneth C. Davis - Don't Know Much About Anything: Don't Know Much About Anything || You are smarter than you think..!!

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:43:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... Don't Know Much About ® is a registered trademark of Kenneth C. Davis. Those are perhaps the most valuable words in this book. Those words protect the value of that phrase to be used again and again for an endless number of these...

It's Not News, It's Fark: ... || open your minds people..!!

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:50:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... We all like to think we are good judges of when someone is telling us the truth, sharing the whole story, giving us what we want and need. If you think the trillion-dollar news industry is giving you what you expect, what you want, what you need...

Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible: ... || No ...it is not 'bible porn'..!!

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:21:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... No. This is not 'Bible porn'. Sorry to unburden you of that thought/hope so quickly. But perhaps it is best we get that out of the way ASAP. Author Liz Curtis Higgs is a "Former Bad Girl", her personal story "...a lengthy and sordid...

The Four Agreements || Common sense made mystical ...and overly complicated...

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:59:31 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... Has it been a while since you muddled through a Carlos
Castaneda tome..?? Did Jonat
han
Livingston Seagull shake...

Dog Gone Love || Watchable take on an old storyline...

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:35:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... If it has been done once, it has been done a thousand times: - boy meets girl, - boy innocently deceives girl, - boy and girl fall in love without admitting it to the other, - boy cannot figure out how to undo his lie, - boy gets girl gets...

Tales from the Left Coast: || Too many tales, too many names...

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:59:55 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... It is fun to tell stories, to regale your listeners with endless tales of sex, excess, politics, parties, and madcap mayhem. But after a while even the glibbest tongue and the sharpest mind is unable to keep the stories from sounding a bit . ...

Kenneth Erle Engel - Street Education 101: Guide to a Woman's Unprotected Life: Street Education 101: ... || Not what you might think...

Fri, 4 Jul 2008 22:50:05 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... The title conjures up visions of Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver or Charles Bronson in Death Wish. Or perhaps more recently, more female, it conjures up the image of Jodie Foster in The Brave One. Unfortunately Street...

Pride & Promiscuity: Pride and Promiscuity || Getting naughty with Jane Austen...

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 23:57:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... It is said (if only by me) that the difference between the erotic and the pornographic is measured only in how much is left to the imagination. If so, Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen delivers an orgasmic...

Baseball Eccentrics: ... || 'Eccentric' is one word for it...

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:59:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... The game of baseball has always had time enough for every facet of the game to play out in its own sweet time. For you see, baseball plays to no clock, bows to no timekeeper. A well-played game can be completed in little more than an hour ...or a...

Five-Minute Tales: ... || Storytelling with a purpose...

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:09:09 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... From the first time early man drew in close around a warm and protective campfire, stories have instructed, educated, warned, awed, and ...yes, even entertained the human mind. "Five-Minute Tales: More Stories to Read and Tell When Time Is...

The Last Lecture || Do you have an end-game plan..??

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:25:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... Update below, July 2008 What would you do if you were told you had three months to live..?? ...six months to live..?? What if you had three young children, all under five years of age..?? ...and a loving wife..?? What would you do..??...

The Timechart History of America || flipping through the years...

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:12:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... Seeing is believing. Sometimes seeing is learning. Complex topics can often be better understood by using simple illustrations or diagrams. We have perhaps all struggled over math word-problems that were easily solved after sketching the 'facts'...

Utterly Outrageous Drinking Games || What is not to like about falling-down-drunk games..??

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:34:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sleeper54 - ... Of all the chemical compounds that man has discovered perhaps none brings more short-term pleasure than does CH3-CH2-OH. That is right, your good ol' friend ethanol. Of course, that short-term pleasure is often tempered with big problems, both...