Advantages: A really entertaining read Disadvantages: none
First and foremost forget the film, it is unable to capture the humour and intensity fully.
This is one of my favourite books, containing just the right mix of intrigue and humour, whilst running along at a great pace .
We start off meeting the major characters very quickly, and a battle of wits starts immediately, between commander Swanson and crew of a US nuclear submarine and Dr Carpenter, sent from London to join the Sub on a special mission to trace a missing ice station named Zebra. (needless to say this may not be the whole truth) !
Now the story begins with lies, subterfuge, lies, sabbotage, lies, murder, lies,one of my favourite lines comes from this book and if you read it, its the one about I almost believed it myself.
The story twists and turns with some great descriptives along the way to really bring you into the story ...
Advantages: Original premise Disadvantages: Violent in places
If you're under a certain age, then Starsky and Hutch will only mean two things - the lacklustre film starring Ben Stiller or the Playstation game that was released around the same time. Well needless to say the boxed set of the first series predates these by 30 years!
The original 90 minute pilot was aired in April 1975 and received very positive feedback that launched a further four seasons of the show. The show aired on ABC for a total of 92 one hour episodes from September 1975 to May 1979. The premise is simple, two policemen work together as partners for the Bay City Police Department. These two seem to get all the dirty jobs that no other cops want to do, which in turn gives the show its dark, moody and menacing look that takes Starsky and Hutch into such places as seedy strip clubs and drug dens, from a story point of view ...
Advantages: Keeps the little ones happy Disadvantages: Annoying music, noisy..... but thats just us ;o) the kids will love it
My little one had this for christmas last year and it's still going strong today so yes it is pretty durable and tough!
It's a super cute bouncy spinning zebra, which plays (annoying ahhem*) music!! It came in a rather large, heavy box as I remember, but putting it together was a doddle (even for me!!!) The green base snaps together with each triange then forming a hexagon, it fits around the base of the zebra (I had to put his handles on too) and then thats pretty much it (there may have been some screws I can't remember).
My little one has had hours of fun on it (so have the older two) but it seemed a lot smaller than I expected?? At £45 it wasn't cheap but it was one of his big presents so I didn't mind. I bought mine out of the christmas toy catalouge, but they are sold in argos and toysrus for roughly the same price.
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