© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-steerpyke Recent reviews written by member steerpyke en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_410733612676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - This is a book that I would recommend to anyone who read Richard Dawkins recent controversial work, The God Delusion. Although the author of this book, John Blanchard, approaches from the other side of the argument than does the better known Dawkins,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~410733612676 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:04:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_410733612676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_302987513476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - Most people who know the name Shane MacGowan probably have him pegged as a stereotypical drunken paddy, fronting The Pogues as a whirlwind of frenzied punk inspired folk music and alcohol try to beat him to the floor in a dishevelled and undignified... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~302987513476 Sun, 7 Jan 2007 18:45:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_302987513476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_302947470980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - Growing up as a half-caste kid, with and absent mother and unknown father in a strict catholic family in Dublin in the fifties, is probably not the best start in life for someone aiming to be a rock star. But despite these set backs, or mainly because of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~302947470980 Sun, 7 Jan 2007 17:04:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_302947470980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_293316431492?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - Thor Heyerdahl came to the attention of the world at large when he sailed a small balsa wood raft from Peru to Polynesia, but to have him tagged as a mere explorer or adventurer is like saying Neil Armstrong liked to travel or Einstein was pretty good... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~293316431492 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:58:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_293316431492?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_293315776132?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Douglas Adams (1952-2001) To some people the idea of Richard Dawkins writing a book about the religious ideology and the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~293315776132 Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:51:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_293315776132?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_285580103300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - People have been reading the bible for nearly two thousand years. Some have taken it literally, others figuratively and others symbolically. Some say it was divinely dictated, revealed or inspired, others that it is a human creation. They have acquired... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~285580103300 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:33:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_285580103300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_280913153668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - If there is a place where science and religion meet head on, it is in the realms of Biblical Archaeology. Though the powers that be would prefer us to use more politically correct terms these days, archaeological study into places, people and events that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~280913153668 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:47:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_280913153668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_273084812932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - I have always been someone that, whilst having faith in science and understanding its place in the advancement of mankind, I also have reservations about it. It can at times, by its very nature, be too focused, self absorbed and clinical and often... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~273084812932 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:17:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_273084812932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_272916713092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - If anyone was going to write a book exploring the development of the Islamic worlds volatile relationship with the West, then Malise Ruthven, author of numerous books on fundamentalism and religion in general and the Arab peoples and Islam in particular,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~272916713092 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:41:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_272916713092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_268721229444?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - I must confess that fantasy literature is something that I lost the taste for many years ago, having found it increasingly clichéd, becoming almost a parody of itself. Maybe I was reading the wrong books but everything I read seemed to contain the same... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~268721229444 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:59:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_268721229444?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_264967851652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - It the beginning was the word, well a few words really and the words were “can you write some music for an Airline commercial?” Thus begins the story of Adiemus, a series of musical works that have now stretched to four albums, international fame and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~264967851652 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:15:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_264967851652?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_261020225156?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - Does music ever really change anything? An interesting point and before you forty something's start ranting on about the punk movement of the late seventies, stop and think, did it? Playing in a band and making albums is a very good way of getting your... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~261020225156 Mon, 2 Oct 2006 13:54:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_261020225156?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_260897541764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - It was, I expect, inevitable that the Da Vinci Code would turn into a point of reference for a certain type of book, rightly or wrongly. In the same way that when a band becomes big, every other record label wants to have their version of that act,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~260897541764 Mon, 2 Oct 2006 07:05:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_260897541764?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_257659932292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - By the time Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy, now the only permanent members of The Cult came to release 1991&#146s album ceremony, they had travelled a long and evolved musical pathway. From the punk roots of The Southern Death Cult, the band first came to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~257659932292 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:22:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_257659932292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_253658566276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - I must confess that when I saw the film " The Last Samurai" I don't remember too much about the musical score. There could be two reasons why this would be the case. Firstly it may have been that the music was not very memorable and therefore didn't... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~253658566276 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:41:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_253658566276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_252572241540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - In every film genre there is an obvious evolution in the way the product changes. The obvious changes happen for reasons of technical improvements in the actual specifics of recording, effects and in more recent times computer driven break through. But... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~252572241540 Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:58:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_252572241540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_252000898692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - Even though the title of the film would suggest that this film is the story of the band as a whole that is pretty much a fallacy. Like most things with this band the front man, Jim Morrison, over shadows all else and here we are treated to a wonderful... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~252000898692 Sat, 2 Sep 2006 08:44:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_252000898692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_250923355780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - Since bouncing onto our screens as the fast talking alien in &#147Mork and Mindy&#148, Robin Williams film career has been full of varied and interesting choices. Some have been little more than vehicles for his own stand up routine, such as &#147Good... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~250923355780 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:35:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_250923355780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_250922962564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - Like most of Loreena McKennitt's work, this album takes the form of a musical journey, a journey across not only physical landscapes, but also through time. Often seen as a competitor to Enya's place as queen of this almost cross-genre new age chilled... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~250922962564 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:25:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_250922962564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_250181947012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - At a time when the world as at it most mistrusting in a cross cultural sense, with one secular or religious group suspiciously eying and pointing fingers at the next, this film, in many ways is well timed and very relevant. But with the focus on the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~250181947012 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:48:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_250181947012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_248280157828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - To many people a band such as the Pogues seem as Irish as you can’t get without being actually carved from the Blarney Stone. Like U2 and Guinness, all are very much products of the Emerald Isle, born of its forty shades of green. Well you can forget all... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~248280157828 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:57:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_248280157828?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_247839624836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - Incubus Succubus are not a band that many people will have heard of, which is a shame, particularly if you are passionate about rock music and are looking for something with depth and originality. The band evolved from humble beginnings from a group of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~247839624836 Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:23:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_247839624836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_246434860676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - Enya, which the singer herself describes as a collective, rather than the vocalist herself, is that most rare of things, a musical act that is not only immensely original but also very successful. Sitting in second place only to U2 as Ireland most... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~246434860676 Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:02:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_246434860676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_245053427332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - With the phenomenal success of the film “Alien” it was inevitable that a sequel would be forth coming what was surprising was that it took nearly seven years before it hit the screen. It was, however, worth the wait. But how to you follow such a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~245053427332 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:47:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_245053427332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_245027212932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author steerpyke - Every aspect of The Da Vinci Codes seems to have attained some aspect of notoriety. The starting point was the book itself, which opened up a Pandora’s box of ideas that many found interesting, outrageous, fake, conspiratorial or even downright... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~245027212932 Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:29:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_245027212932?linkin_id=8003929