Classement de l'évaluateur: 466
Votes utiles reçus relativement à des chroniques et des listes:
91% (58 sur 64)
Surnom : mirasreviews
Emplacement: McLean, VA USA
Dans mes propres mots:
I have organized most of the products that I've reviewed into categories/genres using Amazon's Tags feature. Further down this page, you will see a "cloud" of my Tags. Clicking on a Tag will take you to a list of products that I have reviewed in that category. What's in the Stars: 5 stars - Excellent. Must-see if the subject interests you. 4 stars - Very good. Recommended. 3 stars - There is som… Lire la suiteI have organized most of the products that I've reviewed into categories/genres using Amazon's Tags feature. Further down this page, you will see a "cloud" of my Tags. Clicking on a Tag will take you to a list of products that I have reviewed in that category.
What's in the Stars:
5 stars - Excellent. Must-see if the subject interests you.
4 stars - Very good. Recommended.
3 stars - There is something worthwhile in it, but not good as a whole.
2 stars - Not worth your time.
1 star - Awful. Avoid it.
Ratings for excerpts from the ABNA competition have a different purpose. The excerpts are manuscripts, not final versions, and reviewers see only the first 5,000 words of the novel. I ignore minor flaws that an editor could easily fix. So:
5 stars – Publishable. If the quality of the first pages is maintained, this should be on bookshelves.
4 stars – Promising. Good, but stylistically not quite there yet.
3 stars – Idea is viable, but execution is problematic. Language and structure need reworking to pull the reader in.
**In Memory of Bob Zeidler, top reviewer and classical music enthusiast. Bob passed away on April 2, 2005. The Amazon community will miss him.**
(updated August 2008)
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Classement de l'évaluateur: 466 - Total des votes utiles : 58 sur 64
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"The Rule of Four" is an occasionally awkward, but ultimately entertaining, mystery novel that revolves around an enigmatic Renaissance text called the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. First published in 1499, this mouthful of a book is a long meandering account of one man's dream which discourses on an exhausting catalog of topics on its way to nowhere. "The Rule of Four"'s narrator, Tom Sullivan, whose father was a Renaissance historian specializing in the obscure text, is in his final semester at Princeton University. Among Tom's three roommates is Paul Harris, a man whose preoccupation with the Hypnerotomachia rivals that of obsessed academics three times his age. Paul's… Lire la suite
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"The Master Photographer's Lith Printing Course" is a beautiful comprehensive guide to Lith printing. Not to be confused with ultra-contrasty lith film, Lith printing is a technique by which a print is overexposed and then partially developed in Lith developer to produce a print that is colored monochrome. Prints typically have black shadows, colored mid-tones and burned-out highlights. The photographs must be printed on lith or other suitable black-and-white paper, and the colors produced vary according to the paper and technique. Lith prints may also be toned for additional color effects. Lith printing can be done from color negatives, but normally black-and-white negatives are… Lire la suite
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"The Big Knockover" is a collection of 10 short stories, 9 of which originally appeared in "Black Mask" or "Mystery Stories" magazines, 1923-1929, and feature Dashiell Hammett's famous hard-nosed, always unnamed Continental Op detective. Several of these stories find the Continental Op out of his usual element in far-flung or exotic locales. "The King Business" takes place in a fictional Balkan nation of Muravia, of all places, and involves a political coup. "Corkscrew" is so named after an Arizona desert town, complete with cowboys, where the Op has been sent to break up an illegal immigration operation. The Op's adventures with the… Lire la suite
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