Orin's Profile
Orin's Recent Updates
|
Orin
gave
 to:
Falling...in Love with San Miguel
by Carol Schmidt
recommended to Orin by:
orinwise@comcast.net
read in May, 2010
|
My rating:
|
| The authors' enthusiasm for San Miguel de Allende far surpasses their writing ability. Or editing. Or proofreading. It has a primitive charm. | |
|
Orin
gave
 to:
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
by Bill McKibben
recommended to Orin by:
orinwise@comcast.net
read in May, 2010
|
My rating:
|
| This book will scare you to death. I don't know how the author manages to pull out a potentially optimistic conclusion. I would love to join him and build a small farm, but, frankly, I don't have much hope. | |
|
Orin
gave
 to:
|
My rating:
|
| A solid memoir. It will be interesting to see how things have changed in the decade since it was published--and to see if the dreaded gentrification has indeed come to pass. | |
|
Orin
gave
to:
The Best How-To Book on Moving to Mexico
by Carol Schmidt
recommended to Orin by:
orinwise@comcast.net
read in April, 2010
|
My rating:
|
| There's a lot of good information here, which probably makes up for the annoying emphasis on doing everything on the cheap. Dealing with Mexican bureaucracies has got to be a nightmare but it might be worth it. Keep it as a reference, pick and choo...more | |
|
Orin
gave
to:
When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood
by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
recommended to Orin by:
orinwise@comcast.net
read in April, 2010
|
My rating:
|
| A very affecting memoir. It somehow fits well with my viewing of Reds last weekend and Che this weekend. | |
|
Orin
gave
to:
|
My rating:
|
| I watched Seven Samurai twice yesterday (the second time with the tag-team commentary track) and read this book this morning. It is excellent in treating the details of editing, plotting, and cinemetography. I suspect her observations on the shallo...more | |
|
Orin
gave
to:
|
My rating:
|
| "For the truth is that life on the face of it is a chaos in which one finds oneself lost. The individual suspects as much, but is terrified to encounter this frightening reality face to face, and so attempts to conceal it by drawing a curtain of fan...more | |
|
Orin
gave
to:
Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
by Howard Bloom (Goodreads Author)
read in February, 2010
|
My rating:
|
| There are some interesting observations here, but it is largely a reworking of the Gaea hypothesis. It relies far to much on arguments from analogy, which pretend much but fail to get the yolk out of the egg since they won't break the shell. Way to...more | |
|
Orin
gave
 to:
|
My rating:
|
| I am not worthy to be a commentator, but I will. The pictures and the text will boggle your mind. And expand it, like the universe it explores. It might be compared to a religious experience, but it's better than that. | |
|
Orin
gave
to:
|
My rating:
|
| Covers an amazing amount of ground in 250 pages. This will get you out of your eurocentric tunnel vision and locate yourself in the big picture. And, sadly, that is not a very happy place. Interesting, just not happy. | |
Zola’s stories: a remembrance (Biographies & Memoirs)
1 chapters
—
updated Mar 08, 2009 08:11pm
Description:
A brief piece, a bit of memoir
Pop (Biographies & Memoirs)
1 chapters
—
updated Dec 14, 2008 02:14pm
Description:
Autobiographical fiction; a California ghost town; a little boy
Caveat Scriptor (Humor)
1 chapters
—
updated Dec 04, 2008 09:05am
Description:
A poem I wrote for my freshman comp students at Ohio State. Way back when.
456 books
|
6 friends
118 books
|
21 friends
96 books
|
12 friends
0 books
|
1 friend
0 books
|
4 friends
12 books
|
1 friend
0 books
|
2 friends
0 books
|
1 friend
More friends…
Quizzes and Trivia
questions answered:
0 (0.0%)
correct:
0 (0.0%)
skipped:
0 (0.0%)
872557 out of 872557
streak:
0
best streak:
0
questions added:
0
polls voted on by this member
