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About owlfan
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Member:
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David Gragert
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Epinions.com ID:
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owlfan
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Location:
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Dallas, TX
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Member Since:
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Dec 20 '99
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Favorite Websites:
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CSICOP
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FSTDT
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Bad Astronomy
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I'm a fan of sciences, history, classic sci-fi, historical mysteries, classic rock, and wordplay.
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Activity Summary
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Reviews Written: 63
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Member Visits: 1,428
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Total Visits: 10,606
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About owlfan
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I have been a college library worker, a college English teacher, a newspaper editor, and a proofreader of legal and technical material, so my passions naturally include reading, writing, and education in general. Some of my other passions -- such as cartoons, puns, superhero comics, and rock music -- may be less sophisticated, but they are part of what has made me the unique carbon-based lifeform I am today.
Rating philosophy: Love and Hate.
Some items in my "Love It!" list are the first in a series; in such cases, they may be considered representative of my opinion for the series as a whole. Any item on my "Love It!" list must meet at least one of the following criteria:
(1) It must be something I consider timelessly classic, even if it is so ponderous in form that I wouldn't care to experience it repeatedly and often (e.g., a long novel or a really long movie);
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(2) it must be something that, regardless of intrinsic merit or lack thereof, I will go out of my way to experience again almost any time I encounter it (e.g., finding a favorite B-movie in progress just before I go to bed, and staying up to watch the latter half of it -- even though I've seen the whole thing 12 times or more). This does not necessarily mean that I would rate items in this latter category the BEST in their respective fields -- just that I enjoy them a lot. (Several items currently absent will be included when Epinions.com adds files about them, particularly certain books and albums.)
Conversely, anything included on my "Hate It!" list is something that I found to meet one of these descriptive criteria:
(1) thoroughly unpleasant on a personal level, regardless of its so-called objective merits;
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(2) so bad by any measure that I found it disappointing and/or annoying. If I write an opinion rating it, I'll say which. Of course, this list is bound to stay relatively brief, since I don't tend to seek out that which I already know is neither of use to me nor of interest to me (e.g., I loathe sports, so I would hardly have occasion to rate hockey equipment or ESPN).
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