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Advantages: Not many !
Disadvantages: Not at all like the TV Show

Well I got this book from my local library thinking it would help get over the fact that my favorite TV series of all time has ended! This is the book the show is based apon and so I thought it would be great. The only way I can describe it is strange! And the amount of characters is so enormous it just ended it giving me a headache! The book takes through the lives of many characters in New York City, the nights out at Bowery Bar, the relationship ...
...But to be honest there are so many seperate character stores to try and follow that it becomes almost impossible. Candace Bushnell is the author and to be honest I think it was a good job that Michael Patrick King bought the rights to make the show as otherwise I imagine sales would be much less. Unfortunately I cannot write much more about it, as quite frankly I didn’t really know what was going on myself! My advice would be to just enjoy ... Read review

Advantages: funny, engrossing, interesting
Disadvantages: it's all true (therefore can be horrifying)

It's happened to us all, hasn't it? The feeling of fear and horror and absolute dread that creeps over you two seconds after you've clicked "send" on an email . . . and realised you've sent it to the wrong person. I've had it and if I had any doubt that I was the only one this had ever happened to, then reading "Great Email Diasters" clued me in bigtime. So HAS it happened to you? It's happened to me on a few occasions, and has happened with text ...
...to do - you accidentally hit "reply all" on a round-robin email, or start typing someone's name into the "send to" field and don't notice it has automatically been populated by someone from your company address book, or you've just not been thinking properly. For example, me and my friend Sarah were one day having a conversation about a student who had been annoying both of us, and at the same time as we were emailing about this, Sarah was emailing ... Read review

Advantages: A good read
Disadvantages: Everyone seems to change for the better in the book a bit too easily

Cathy Kelly, as usual, has written her book well, full of Irish characters and family. I have read one of Cathy Kelly's book before and this one was along the same lines. Her books delve deep into the bonds between family and friends. There are lots of references to Ireland in the book so you can just imagine all these characters chatting away in the lovely accent that Irish people have. The main characters in the book are Christy Devlin, an art ...
...her boyfriend Grey, and Faye Reid, a businesswomen who lives with her 18-year old daughter. The three characters are all united when something happens in each of their personal lives, something that makes them all look at a secret they have in their past. For Christy, somebody comes back into her life who should never have been in it, for Maggie, she finds out that Grey has been two-timing her and she faces demons from her past, and for Faye, her ... Read review

Advantages: So funny you'll wet yourself - buy in some own brand nappies
Disadvantages: You may be forced to come to terms with your own behaviour

Ladies and Gentlemen: Embrace your inner pikey. Be honest now, no cheating. Take a look at the list of questions I have compiled below: 1. Do you have one or more store loyalty cards? 2. Does your pulse race at the sight of a buy-one-get-one free offer? 3. Do you get email alerts every week for what's on special at Aldi? 4. Does the site of your Tesco clubcard vouchers coming through the letterbox fill you with excitement? 5. Have you ever ...
...been to a boot fair, a jumble sale or a TK Maxx or Matalan? 7. Ever bought or sold on eBay? 8. Ever taken home the soaps from a hotel visit? 9. Ever signed up for online surveys? 10. Ever written a first review so you could get double money for the first month? OK, hands up if you match on at least two of those criteria…………..that's what I expected, more hands than I can count. And how many of you are matching most of them? Again, quite a few. ... Read review

Advantages: Very funny, huge variety of subject matter, lots of book for your money, informative, passionate
Disadvantages: Doesn't suit being read in one go, topics recycled and stale towards end

Born To Be Riled is good. It's probably not Jeremy Clarkson's best book, but it certainly makes for great reading, either as a bedtime book, where the short columns are ideal for a quick spell, on the commute or on holiday. It will certainly make you laugh, and the variety is great. It's just missing that little something. The best, and in some cases worst, thing about Born To Be Riled is the fantastic scope of subject matter. Clarkson writes about ...
...connects you to the book. Born To Be Riled is humorous and interesting to read, and is very easy to pick up and get into, perhaps making it best read in short spells, allowing more attention to each individual column. Born To Be Riled certainly has the wit and charm of Clarkson's other books, and the only thing that really lets it down is perhaps it is so long, that by the end, you've read about everything two or three times. However, it is definitely ... Read review