© 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-swopedesign Recent reviews written by member swopedesign en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_438802091652?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - It is hard to write about a book that has been turned into a movie without comparing the two. Jaws is particularly difficult, because in my humble experience the book that has come first is usually better than the movie, but this maxim does not apply to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~438802091652 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:53:44 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_438802091652?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_434642652804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - I grew up with the Marvel super heroes. The Incredible Hulk was one of my favored comics, alongside Spider-Man and The Fantastic Four. Despite my fondness for the Marvel characters, I did not much like the first modern Hulk film titled simply "Hulk." It... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~434642652804 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:18:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_434642652804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_432418754180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - Jaws: Book Good; Movie Better It is hard to write about a book that has been turned into a movie without comparing the two. Jaws is particularly difficult, because in my humble experience the book that has come first is usually better than the movie,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~432418754180 Mon, 2 Jun 2008 23:53:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_432418754180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_428613996164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - I was a comic collector in the 1980s. Among my favorite characters were Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and the Fantastic Four. Peter Parker/Spider-Man is a strong character for many reasons. The Hulk in the 1980s was nearly as strong a character, for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~428613996164 Sat, 3 May 2008 01:40:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_428613996164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_427868917380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - (Reviewed using Mac OS X 10.4.9) I am happy to find that wireless printers have finally caught up with other wireless devices, and at attractive price points. The Lexmark thermal inkjet printers boast many attractive features that make it difficult to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~427868917380 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:45:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_427868917380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_416018501252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - I was introduced to House of Nanking by my friend. We were attending MacWorld San Francisco this year (2008), and this is one of his favorite restaurants. He's never had a bad experience here. He attends MWSF every year. We went on Tuesday evening at 8... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~416018501252 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:53:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_416018501252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_416012603012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - For readers who savor details, Night Watchman is a feast. Few books capture details as clearly as James Viscosi in Night Watchman. Viscosi gets extensive extra credit for descriptive writing that makes most of the scenes in Night Watchman vivid and real,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~416012603012 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:41:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_416012603012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_416012209796?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - I first learned of Dexter by overhearing some commentary on television about a Showtime original series based on characters in a novel about a policeman who is also a serial killer who only kills other serial killers. The possibilities were intriguing. I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~416012209796 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:33:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_416012209796?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_407634677380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - A succubus, self-described as one of Hell's best, is on the run from the Devil himself, with several powerful demons hot on her heels, and she escapes to the human realm and, with the help of a witch, assumes an undetectable but desirable human form, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~407634677380 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:12:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_407634677380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405034602116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - Other reviewers have written that you won't want to put down this book. To some degree, I must agree with them. Though I first thought this book was a biography about a serial killer I had never heard about (the review list wasn't clear about the genre,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405034602116 Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:55:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405034602116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402937056900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - (Originally published in I-70 Review) There are few poets who genuinely engage me as a reader, among them Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, W. S. Merwin, Philip Levine, William Stafford, W. D. Snodgrass, John Gilgun and now Roger Kirschbaum, to name... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402937056900 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:47:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402937056900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_358740168324?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - I have been a Spider-Man fan since I was 8 or 9 years old, possibly younger, when I began to collect Spider-Man comics. I have a small collection of comics today, more than half the collection are Spider-Man related. My wife and children think I'm... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~358740168324 Mon, 7 May 2007 19:57:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_358740168324?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_358267915908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - I have been a Spider-Man fan since I was 8 or 9 years old, possibly younger, when I began to collect Spider-Man comics. I have a small collection of comics today, more than half the collection are Spider-Man related. My wife and children think I'm... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~358267915908 Sun, 6 May 2007 19:03:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_358267915908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_338279173764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - I took my 9-year-old son to watch this film in the theaters. He was not impressed. We bought the DVD recently, too. Still, he does not care to see it. He thinks the film is about football. But he forgets that I don't care much for football, either. So... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~338279173764 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:48:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_338279173764?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_315732233860?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - I honestly do not know much about Laurell Hamilton's books. I read a couple about Anita Blake a few years ago. I forget where I got them. They're hardback, which I don't normally buy due to cost. So I may have gotten them from the Book of the Month club... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~315732233860 Mon, 5 Feb 2007 03:16:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_315732233860?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_315526188676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - Global warming to many just means that the earth is getting warmer due to trapped greenhouse gases and a shrinking ozone layer in our atmosphere. Big deal, right? Nobody likes too much cold anyway! Well, global warming, is a very big deal. So big in fact... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~315526188676 Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:41:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_315526188676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_280808033924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - Walk out at the fade to white, to savor the powerful minimalist ending. Then watch this film again through to its "second" ending, to experience the happily-ever-after, sugar-coated. Having written some poems and stories, experienced some small... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~280808033924 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:08:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_280808033924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_239784005252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - Truth, justice, and the American Way. A trite phrase today that the makers of Superman Returns acknowledges and destroys at the same time, then powerfully renews it on a larger scale by the end of the film like no other Superman film, TV... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~239784005252 Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:39:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_239784005252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_239783218820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - Truth, justice, and the American Way. A trite phrase today that the makers of Superman Returns acknowledges and destroys at the same time, then powerfully renews it on a larger scale by the end of the film like no other Superman film, TV... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~239783218820 Sun, 2 Jul 2006 14:35:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_239783218820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_225180421764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - Despite the plethora of design books available, good design is hard to teach. Fortunately, Bryan Peterson recognizes that good design begins with a solid understanding of design's basic principles. From this strong foundation comes good -- and great! --... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~225180421764 Sun, 2 Apr 2006 17:04:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_225180421764?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_223759142532?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - My family has vacationed in south Missouri since before I was born. Lake Pomme de Terre was my father's vacation-on-a-budget, and it was a grand ol' time every year. Along with camping, sunburns, swimming and scuba diving (my dad has old scuba gear from... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~223759142532 Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:24:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_223759142532?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_223726833284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - A Miserable Spring Break in Saint Louis, Missouri We planned a 7-day vacation to Saint Louis in May 2005 (Spring Break). St. Louis offered some cool places to visit, among them Magic House (highly recommended for kids, and a couple Fridays a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~223726833284 Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:08:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_223726833284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_222206987908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - If you have computer-savvy children and a moderately-powered G3 Macintosh, Feral Interactive's big family fun packs are more than appealing. In Feral's Family Fun Pack 2, family gamers enjoy three colorful, three-dimensional, humorous, often quirky, but... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~222206987908 Wed, 1 Mar 2006 00:53:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_222206987908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_219072859780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - I'm a long time fan of Dokken, the heavy metal hair band who made it in the 80's with such early hits as "Tooth & Nail," "Just Got Lucky" and power ballad "Alone Again" in 1984. Riding the wave of these hits, Dokken quickly released another studio album... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~219072859780 Sat, 28 Jan 2006 01:09:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_219072859780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_218562858628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author swopedesign - I wrote earlier that Cinderella's debut album Night Songs appeals to us because its themes are core to the experience of blue collar Americans. We know how it is to live paycheck to paycheck without any relief, how the world beats us down every chance it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~218562858628 Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:11:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_218562858628?linkin_id=8003929