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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-sweaver Recent reviews written by member sweaver en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_486303239812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - If they weren't the greatest team in baseball history (the pitching wasn't all that good) they ran out the best eight-man lineup ever.  Several books were written about the 1975 Cincinnati Reds at the time, but now the best sportswriter of this... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486303239812 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:28:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486303239812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_481373294212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - This is not Buzz Aldrin's first published autobiography; he published one in the 1970s, and one aimed at an elementary school audience a few years ago.  However, this edition covers the recent details of his life, including all the difficulties... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~481373294212 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:40:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_481373294212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_469012024964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - The reserve clause.  It was a given in the game of baseball, had existed since the game's 19th century roots, shortly after a viable league had been created.  The clause bound a player to a team for perpetuity, unless that team decided to trade... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469012024964 Sat, 2 May 2009 11:41:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469012024964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_443077660292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - This volume collects the Legion of Super-Heroes stories from Adventure Comics #350-358, published in 1966 and 1967. It represents the very best Legion material ever published. This was truly the glory days of the Legion.This period puts the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~443077660292 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:59:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_443077660292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_443026869892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - The Legion Archives Volume Five (not sure what this picture on epinions is about, it isn't the book) captures what is the beginning of the greatest era of the popular DC Comics future heroes, the Legion of Super-Heroes. It collects Adventure Comics... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~443026869892 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:02:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_443026869892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_443024707204?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - Disney was trying to get their movie animation department started again. The "nine old men" who had been the backbone of the animation studio since the early days had passed from the scene, and the movie-making group had fallen on hard times and was... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~443024707204 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:18:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_443024707204?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442159042180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - "Milk Glass Moon" is the third and final book in author Adriana Trigiani's Big Stone Gap trilogy. It serves as her goodbye to these characters she loves, and that thousands of readers have come to love. There are many reasons we love them. Trigiani,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442159042180 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:50:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442159042180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441919639172?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - The sequel to Adriana Trigiani's "Big Stone Gap" is a new adventure in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney, the small-town pharmacist, 30ish spinster turned newlywed, and now mother...but there's something wrong. And perhaps a trip back to Italy,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441919639172 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:01:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441919639172?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441048862340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - 500 years ago on the planet Zondar, the prophet Ontear left behind a scroll saying that the civil war on the planet would only end when the savior appeared. Ontear said, "Look to the stars, from there will come the messiah! The bird of flame will... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441048862340 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:01:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441048862340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440908418692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - I found this book, a fictional account of the seventh year of the life of Jesus Christ, a surprise on many levels. While there are a few missteps along the way, those surprises are mostly pleasant ones. Seven is an age often cited as an age of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440908418692 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:54:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440908418692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440438525572?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - The scene opens with a card that says "London, 1897." We look upon the Victorian, gas-lit scene, and focus down to street level...low street level. Inside a small toy shop, we see two mice. The father gives his little daughter a birthday present, a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440438525572 Fri, 8 Aug 2008 18:34:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440438525572?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440043343492?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - How does it come about that the worst happens? What decisions are made that lead to disaster? Can reasonable men do things that lead to massive loss of life? Certainly they can, and this book by noted historian David McCullough shows just how badly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440043343492 Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:34:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440043343492?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439620374148?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - It is important to note that this is not your father's (or mother's) Disney animated movie. After some difficulty hitting the right audience for their films, Disney had tried a movie for younger children (Winnie the Pooh) that had been successful, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439620374148 Sat, 2 Aug 2008 16:02:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439620374148?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439380905604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - What do you do when you find out that your best friend is supposed to be your enemy? Do you act according to type, or try to break the mold? We would all like to think that we could break free of prejudice, but it isn't usually so simple. It isn't... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439380905604 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:40:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439380905604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439378939524?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - Imagine getting a chance to develop your own part of the Star Trek universe. That was the opportunity Peter David, noted Writer of Stuff, had when he was presented with the idea for New Frontier. With Pocket Books editor John J. Ordover, David... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439378939524 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:10:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439378939524?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439323496068?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - Mira Kamdar is a "policy wonk" who makes a living as a commentator and opinion writer on things Indian (dot, not feather). She normally speaks, or writes at magazine article length. That is a weakness for someone who then tries to write at book length,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439323496068 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:48:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439323496068?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439322578564?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - It is often said that good people make for boring biographies. That is untrue in this case. Walter Johnson was one of the greatest gentleman ever in the game of baseball, but this biography details with great interest the story of his life. It is a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439322578564 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:21:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439322578564?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_436159745668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - "The Rescuers" marks a low point for Disney animation. Not for success, however: the movie was and remains popular, and was more successful in some countries that Star Wars, released the same year. It set a record for an animated film's opening... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~436159745668 Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:29:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_436159745668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_436071009924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - Winnie-the-Pooh was a small stuffed bear, part of a menagerie of stuffed animals who were the toys of a little boy named Christopher Robin. He loved his bear, as well as his other animals so much, that he asked his father to make up stories about them... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~436071009924 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 23:49:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_436071009924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435772755588?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - This is Peter David's only Deep Space 9 novel, and the first original novel written although it is numbered #2, after the novelization of the first episode. K.W. Jeter had nothing to do with the writing of this book, in spite of the Epinions listing... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435772755588 Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:32:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435772755588?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435767447172?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - A well-researched biography of an overlooked baseball great is a good find. When the book is well-written, it is doubly a pleasure. One out of two isn't bad. Timothy Gay, Civil War researcher, found a ballplayer in that background and spent four... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435767447172 Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:59:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435767447172?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_435723734660?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - A ship of the line is an impressive craft, and built for that purpose. It is meant for exploration, and often for defense, to "hold the line" against those who would do harm. Author Diane Carey takes that theme, and others from the stories of Horatio... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~435723734660 Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:08:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_435723734660?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431491092100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - Commander Jean-Luc Picard of the starship Enterprise has agreed with his best friend and commander, Captain Jack Crusher, to be the go-between for normal command communications with the new chief medical officer, Dr. Beverly Howard, Captain Crusher's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431491092100 Mon, 26 May 2008 13:51:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431491092100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431183990404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - You see the title? The book is about baseball trades, right? Nope. It contains very little material on trades. Don't waste your money on this volume. Author Fran Zimniuch is described on the back cover blurb as "an award-winning journalist" but... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431183990404 Fri, 23 May 2008 18:35:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431183990404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_431179402884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author sweaver - This is the book that made a wheelchair-bound scientist named Stephen Hawking a household name, and perhaps the most famous physicist since Einstein. It is a surprise, and a joy, that it became such a hit, since it covers such difficult subject matter... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~431179402884 Fri, 23 May 2008 17:46:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_431179402884?linkin_id=8003929