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(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)
They tell me that gray is distinguished - I sure hope they're right!
New Reviewer Rank: 625
Classic Reviewer Rank: 1,167
Helpful votes received on reviews, lists & guides: 85% (2,039 of 2,414)
Nickname: paulweiss4
Location: Dundas, Ontario Canada

Interests
21st Century Renaissance Man, Jack of all Trades, Master of None:

Music, choral singing,
Philately,
Wilderness camping in all four seasons, hiking, canoeing
Reading (historical fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, popular science and thrillers)
Weight-liftin… Read more
 

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Haydn (Life and Works (Naxos)) by Jeremy Siepmann
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Haydn (Life and Works (Naxos)) by Jeremy Siepmann
Educational, uplifting and immensely entertaining! [Read more]
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Nothing but the Truth (Dismas Hardy) by John Lescroart
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Nothing but the Truth (Dismas Hardy) by John Lescroart
Dull characters that nobody will care about at all! [Read more]
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Critical Judgment by Michael Palmer
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Critical Judgment by Michael Palmer
One more notch in Michael Palmer's belt! [Read more]
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The Elves of Cintra (Genesis of Shannara, Book 2) by Terry Brooks
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The Elves of Cintra (Genesis of Shannara, Book 2) by Terry Brooks
The breathtaking second instalment in "The Genesis of Shannara" trilogy, [Read more]
one week ago

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
There are going to be a LOT of disappointed fans out there! [Read more]
two weeks ago
Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie
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Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie
Perhaps not the worst she's written ... but it's the worst I've read! [Read more]
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New Reviewer Rank: 625 - Total Helpful Votes: 1988 of 2356
Classic Reviewer Rank: 1,167
Haydn (Life and Works (Naxos)) by Jeremy Siepmann
Haydn (Life and Works (Naxos)) by Jeremy Siepmann
Educational, uplifting and immensely entertaining!

Jeremy Siepmann and Naxos Records have created a truly winning recipe with their "Life and Works" series. The combination of an audio book with music is an extraordinarily powerful and compelling way of bringing the biography of a classical musician to life and, at the same time, making the music accessible to a wide audience who may never have had the privilege of listening to some of the greatest music ever written.

In Josef Haydn, we are treated to the story of a modest unassuming man, born of modest parents (his father worked as a wheelwright). As an employee of the Esterhazy family (one might almost argue that… Read more
Nothing but the Truth (Dismas Hardy) by John Lescroart
As part of the long-running Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitzky series, "Nothing but the Truth" falls completely flat for me and is an utter failure as a legal "thriller"!

San Francisco attorney, Dismas Hardy is shocked to find out that his wife has been jailed for contempt when she refuses to answer a question posed to her in a grand jury investigation of a recent murder. The prosecuting attorney, definitely on a legal fishing expedition behind the closed doors of the grand jury, asked her about a conversation that she had with a friend who was a potential murder suspect. Because the friend had told her a secret in absolute confidence, she utterly refused to answer the question and… Read more
Critical Judgment by Michael Palmer
Critical Judgment by Michael Palmer
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Abby Dolan was a highly skilled female physician with plenty of upward mobility on the horizon at a major San Francisco teaching hospital. With no small amount of trepidation and introspection, she reluctantly changed jobs in order to be with her boyfriend, Josh, and accepted a position as head of the emergency room at Patience Regional Hospital, a much smaller hospital located in the mountains north of San Francisco that caters to the localized needs of the citizens of Patience.

It isn't long before Abby realizes that something simply isn't right. She's seeing an alarming number of NIWWs - her medical black humour shorthand for charting symptoms when she has "No Idea What's… Read more

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Favorite Music

Act Two ~ Seldom Scene
Act Two ~ Seldom Scene
Adiemus IV: The Eternal Knot ~ Karl Jenkins
A Day Without Rain ~ Enya

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