Louis Armstrong

Advantages: The one and only
Disadvantages: none

...I love reggae music, especially Bob Marley, but if I am honest I also like a bit of Jazz, not any old Jazz though, when I say Jazz I mean Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong a Jazz musician that will not be forgotten and an act that will never be followed, some Jazz musicians will try and follow in his footsteps but non will succeed, Louis was unique. Who else could have that rough, gravel like voice that could become so famous, that famous smile and the twinkle in his eyes? Louis Armstrong (satchmo) the name he was well known as. Louis was born into a poor family from New Orleans on August 4th 1901. Sent away to a reform school for two years that?s when and where he first learned to play the coronet. After leaving reform school Louis was hired locally as a general dogsbody, but the music was in his bones and he frequently...

gill1960 11.01.2005 · Read review
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FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

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Plunkett and Macleane soundtrack - Craig Armstrong

Advantages: Different, exciting and composed by a renound Electronica artist
Disadvantages: not a lyrical album with 'songs'

...This is an incredible soundtrack written for the 18th Century action/drama film Plunkett and Macleane starring Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Liv Tyler. It is composed by Craig Armstrong, also composer to some of the famous heavy instrumental tracks used in Baz Lurhman's Romeo and Juliet in1996 such as the track 'O Verona'. This whole sound track is in a very similar style to that of Romeo and Juliet in the sense that it uses so many different genres of music within one film. As the film is set in the 18th Century it seems a bit of an odd choice to ask Craig Armstrong to create the film score as he is known as an Electronica artist. Overall surprisingly it works though. This CD has some amazing tracks ranging in styles from Carl Orff's symphonic, apocalyptic methods, to Opera, to modern day dance tracks and calm/subdued background...

catbradbury 19.04.2005 · Read review
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I See Dead People...

Advantages: Easy Read, Great Story Line, Great Characters
Disadvantages: Too Short!

...The Summoning ? Kelley Armstrong Young Chloe Saunders has a gift, and that makes her dangerous? Yes, rather like the film ?Sixth Sense?, Chloe Saunders, the main character and the character in which this book is written via her first person view, sees the dead. Unlike the film, she did not grow up knowing what she was seeing, and when it all suddenly comes into the light she is thrown into a home for those who are deemed with mental problems, though not all is as it seems. The Summoning is the first book in a trilogy (Darkest Powers Trilogy) with the third book to the date of this review not out yet (Believe release date May 2010). SYNOPSIS I don?t want to let on too much without giving away the story, though I shall endeavor to enlighten you into the basic storyline of this book, enough to hopefully allow you to make up your...

elfbwillow 29.08.2009 · Read review
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"Pain is only temporary, quitting lasts forever."

Advantages: See article
Disadvantages: None

...The Tour De Force In a sport dominated and tainted by constant allegations and prosecutions for performance enhancing drugs, there remains a beacon of light shinning down from the French Alpes and as the source rises higher and higher on the accent so may be tricked into thinking it is a God. Although be it this man does indeed have so many immortal features, he is, supposedly, fundamentally human. This man is the very special, one and only, Lance Armstrong. For those people not familiar with Lance one sentence I hope does a lot to explain; he has won the world?s hardest endurance event (cycling around France up mountains for 23 days against other world class athletes) 7 years in a row, after surviving terminal cancer. ""Being a champion is redefining what's humanly possible."" Lance Edward Gunderson as he was born on the 18th...

djtmj 27.05.2009 · Read review
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Bitten for a second time

Advantages: Clay, Clay, Clay
Disadvantages: None

...Bitten ? Kelley Armstrong This is the first in the Women of the Underworld series. Elena Michaels is the only female werewolf in the world, she was turned against her will by her fiancé Clay. For ten years she stayed with the pack Clay belonged too. But found she had to get out. So Elena made a life for herself in Toronto, just a regular women living her day to day life, going to work and enjoying her life, except for having the urge to Change every so often and run. Life is good for Elena until she gets a message from Jeremy, the pack leader saying there is trouble. The pack are under attack by a group of mutt werewolves who have turned dangerous criminals into werewolves. So she packs herself off to New York to help her friends. She won?t stop at anything to save her pack. Elena struggles with her desire to stay in New York...

gemsey83 21.08.2009 · Read review
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YAMAHA DVD-S 557 this is THE DVD player of all time.

Advantages: Brilliant DVD player, perfect quality
Disadvantages: cant think of any

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plainpaul 22.02.2009 · Read review
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EVERY SECOND COUNTS. VIVE LE LANCE!

Advantages: INSPIRATIONAL. SOMEWHAT EDUCATIONAL ABOUT CANCER AND IT'S TREATMENT. EASY TO READ.
Disadvantages: SKIRTS AROUND THE MOST PERSONAL OF ISSUES

...I bought "Every Second Counts" from Play.com in paperback form for £6.49 the same day I finshed Armstrong's first autobiography, "It's Not About The Bike." My motivation for reading about Armstrong stems from the fact that I took up recreational cycling 15 months ago, not realising the true complexities and difficulty of the sport. I wanted to know what drove a man to rise from what some doctors privately thought was his deathbed to go on and put himself through sport's biggest endurance test - The Tour de France. Not only that, but to win it an unparalled 7 times (straight). This book covers the period between his second and fifth victories. In my opinion, this book covers a lot of old ground for those that have read his first book. However, this is understandable as it was the events surrounding his 1996 cancer diagnosis and his...

cadds8 03.09.2009 · Read review
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Bitten: A book about a female werewolf

Advantages: Great read! Plus you know there'll be more fun coming in the sequels!
Disadvantages: You can't put it down! Addictive, so you'll spend money on the sequels!

...BOOK: Bitten AUTHOR: Kelly Armstrong PUBLISHER: Time Warner Paperbacks COST: UK RRP £6.99 AVAILABLE AT: Waterstones, Borders, WH Smith, amazon.co.uk, and probably a whole load of other places ISBN: 0-7515-3094-8 GENERAL INFO: Bitten is the first book in Kelly Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series. The rest of the novels in the series (in order) are Stolen, Dime Store Magic, Industrial Magic, Haunted, Broken, No Humans Involved, and Personal Demon; with the 9th instalment due in the US in November 2008. As the title of the series suggests, each novel stars a supernatural female living on modern day earth amongst the regular human beings who are completely unaware of the fact that supernatural races exist?at least, most of them. BACK COVER: Elena Michaels is your regular twenty-first century girl: self assured...

hannahjex 18.04.2008 · Read review
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