Book (and music and film) Reviews

Other writings

I started writing reviews on Amazon.com during high school, and continue to do so to this day, whenever I have a chance. I like to think that these reviews have improved over time. I also like to think that's not just because the first ones were so horrible. My reviews tend to be mostly positive, not because I like everything I read, but because I'm more motivated to review books I enjoy (or those that touch a nerve...)

Books:

Review of The Iron Heel by Jack London (26 June 2008)

Review of The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? by Joel Kovel (3 February 2008)

Review of Build It Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century by Michael A. Lebowitz (23 January 2008)

Review of Bread and Roses by Bruce Watson (19 January 2008)

Review of A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham (19 January 2008)

Review of Sacco and Vanzetti: Rebel Lives edited by John Davis (14 January 2008)

Review of Helen Keller: Rebel Lives edited by John Davis (14 January 2008)

Review of Haydee Santamaria: Rebel Lives edited by Betsy Maclean (25 February 2007)

Review of Albert Einstein: Rebel Lives edited by Jim Green (12 January 2007)

Review of 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy by Steven Hill (16 October 2006)

Review of The Conscience of the Revolution by Robert V. Daniels (8 October 2006)

Review of A History of Japan by Conrad Totman (9 September 2006)

Review of War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower (21 July 2006)

Review of The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin (18 July 2006)

Review of True Mission: Socialists and the Labor Party Question in the U.S. by Eric Chester (24 May 2006)

Review of Fashionable Nonsense by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont (6 February 2006)

Review of A History of Japan to 1334 by George Sansom (4 February 2006)

Review of Historical Truth and Lies About the Past by Alan Spitzer (31 January 2006)

Review of The Rivers of War by Eric Flint (10 August 2005)

Review of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (13 July 2005)

Review of All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer (12 July 2005)

Review of Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham (12 July 2005)

Review of Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick (12 July 2005)

Review of Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (2 July 2005)

Review of Dissolution: Sovereignty and the Breakup of the Soviet Union by Edward Walker (17 May 2005)

Review of The Abkhazians: A Handbook by George Hewitt (ed.) (15 May 2005)

Review of Data Structures and Algorithms in Java by Michael Goodrich and Roberto Tamassia (14 May 2005)

Review of Classical Mechanics by John Taylor (4 January 2005)

Review of In the Beginning... was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson (24 June 2004)

Review of The Confusion by Neal Stephenson (24 June 2004)

Review of Zodiac by Neal Stephenson (18 June 2004)

Review of Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (14 June 2004)

Review of 1634: The Galileo Affair by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis (14 June 2004)

Review of Ring of Fire by Eric Flint et al. (12 June 2004)

Review of 1633 by David Weber and Eric Flint (8 June 2004)

Review of 1632 by Eric Flint (8 June 2004)

Review of Main Currents of Marxism: The Breakdown by Leszek Kolakowski (5 September 2003)

Review of Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders by Leszek Kolakowski (5 September 2003)

Review of Main Currents of Marxism: The Golden Age by Leszek Kolakowski (22 August 2003)

Review of After the Collapse by Dmitri Simes (31 July 2003)

Review of Kronstadt 1917-1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy by Israel Getzler (13 July 2003)

Review of Introducing Trotsky and Marxism by Tariq Ali (13 July 2003)

Review of Anarchism: Left, Right and Green by Ulrike Heider (11 June 2003)

Review of History in Three Keys by Paul Cohen ( 8 June 2003)

Review of The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (8 June 2003)

Review of The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (27 January 2003)

Review of Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn (19 August 2002)

Review of The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (13 June 2002)

Review of History of the World by John Roberts (19 April 2002)

Review of Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn (20 March 2002)

Review of Kronstadt, 1921 by Paul Avrich (15 March 2002)

Review of How Hitler Could Have Won World War II by Bevin Alexander (10 March 2002)

Review of Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (8 March 2002)

Review of I, Che Guevara by John Blackthorn (aka Gary Hart) (22 June 2001)

Music:

Review of Carnival by New Model Army (26 January 2007)

Review of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Soundtrack by Joe Hisaishi (7 February 2006)

Review of The Holy Bible by the Manic Street Preachers (6 July 2005)

Review of Thunder and Consolation by New Model Army (4 January 2005)

Review of Raza Hoodia by the Hip Hop Hoodios (2 March 2002)

Review of Odyssey by the New World Renaissance Band (2 March 2002)

Films:

Review of The Last Samurai by Edward Zwick (25 February 2006)

Review of Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki (18 January 2006)

Review of Animal Farm (11 September 2003)

Electronics:

Review of TDK NP100 Stereo Headphones (6 September 2003)