Helpful votes received on reviews:
100% (4 of 4)
In My Own Words:
I'm a 21 year old from Nashville, Tennessee, and I've been an avid fantasy reader since I was 15 years old. I mainly got into it by stealing the books my brother read. I *still* have books that I stole from him that I haven't read yet. I've started trying to review every book I read as I read them, but sometimes I lapse and they build up and then I review several at once and hope I haven't forgott… Read moreI'm a 21 year old from Nashville, Tennessee, and I've been an avid fantasy reader since I was 15 years old. I mainly got into it by stealing the books my brother read. I *still* have books that I stole from him that I haven't read yet. I've started trying to review every book I read as I read them, but sometimes I lapse and they build up and then I review several at once and hope I haven't forgotten something that I meant to say when I first read the book.
Now, since I have a soapbox to stand on, I just have a couple of things to get off my chest.
Please, if you read a review, whether it be mine or someone elses, judge the review based on its helpfulness, not on whether or not the person hated a book you adored or vice versa. I'm not going to sugar coat a review so that people will give me a helpful vote. I'm going to give my honest opinion of the book. If I think it sucked, I'm going to say so. If I hated it, but think it had some redeeming qualities, I'll tell you. I have no respect for people that give every book they read a four- or five-star rating. That just leads me to believe that their reviews are so much fluff and nonsense, aimed at getting helpful votes rather than helping out potentional book buyers.
The other thing that gets me is people that have written one or two reviews and have more helpful votes than all of my reviews put together. I've put a lot of effort into writing reviews for the books I read, while some people can write one review and get 50 helpful votes. Talk about frustrating. That's not to say that their review did or did not deserve 50 votes, it's just me venting.
Well, that's just my two cents.
Something else that I'm interested in is role-playing. I like role-playing games, and I like AD&D. (I especially like role-playing games based on AD&D.) I'm also an EverQuest player with a level 51 wood-elf Druid. If you play EverQuest and happen to be on the Xegony server, send Willowsong a tell.
You can visit my website at www.alliekat.net if you're interested in learning more about me. Be sure to sign the guestbook!
Thanks for coming to my About Me area, and happy reading!
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If you first heard Shawn Mullins on the radio singing "Lullaby," then you might have gotten the impression that Mullins can't really sing, since most of the song is spoken rather than sung. Quite the opposite is true. I think he has an incredible voice that expresses the feeling he's trying to get across in such a way that it gives me chills on some of the more emotional songs. Not only that, but he is also an incredible songwriter and musician, with the soul of a bard. In my opinion, Lullaby, while a good song, pales in comparison to some of the other songs on this album. Some of his songs tell stories, like "Twin Rocks, Oregon," about a man Mullins met back in his early days of living out… Read more
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Unlike the other two Ally McBeal albums, which had remakes of some of my favorite oldies, this album has insipid lounge versions of songs I didn't like in the first place, like Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," and Carole King's "Home Again." Other songs, like "For Once In My Life" and "Reason To Believe," were slowed down to the point of being boring. The other albums had several of Vonda Shepard's own songs, and that is thankfully not the case with this album. There's only one song written by Shepard: "You And Me," with the endless repitition of "It's you and me and you're nowhere to be found... it's me and you and I'm… Read more
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After the success of their first release, the makers of Ally McBeal have released a second album featuring the fabulous Vonda Shepard performing songs from the hit TV show. Like the first album, this new release contains covers of many old favorites like "Someday We'll Be Together," "Crying," "World Without Love," and "This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)". She also does a cover of "Vincent," but the third verse of the song is, sadly, missing. Also, like the first album, it contains songs written by Shepard: "100 Tears Away," about finding happiness through sadness, "Read Your Mind," a rather unextraordinary song… Read more
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