A Cosy Restaurant In A Big Temple

Advantages: great food, well cooked, nice atmosphere, good prices
Disadvantages: not in the UK

...a homemade pizza for ?6. So, I got out my trusty Dorling Kindersley Top 10 guide which I swore by all holiday and it made my trip amazing. It lists top 10 restaurants in every area. In the Around Town-South of the Liffey area Botticelli was listed. I had read my guide before coming and this one stuck out. The guide gives a price guide and it had 2 euro signs which means they are roughly between ?25 to ?35 for a three course meal which to me was not at all bad. So, I gave up my search walked to 3 Temple Bar and found it. The guide describes it as 'Genuine Italian run by Italians. The simple menu has all the old favourites - a good reasonably priced place for lunch or dinner. 'With this positive description I decided to give it a try. So, when first walking in it does seem small. As usual, you wait at the front and someone will guide you to...

ms19 14.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Botticelli, Dublin

Fun for a bit

Advantages: Cheerful garagey pub rock
Disadvantages: Not their best album, lyrics not too impressive

...Stonesish. The album is full of references to girls, gang culture and cars, the lyrics are extremely simple and a lot of the guitar playing hasn't moved on over the decades, you do get the feeling that the lyrics tend to be a bit on the weak side, either to repetitive or just far too straight forward. This album may have been released this year but there's nothing to suggest that in the way of added instruments or beats as the band stay in the boundaries of 70s pub rock. They seem cheerful chaps and one or two songs are enjoyable but listening to the whole album - you do feel that they could vary their music a little bit. 1 Talk To Me 2 Ain't That Too Much 3 South Of The River 4 Liberty Smile 5 All Away 6 Bad Girls 7 Real Botticelli 8 Love For Life 9 Survival Dance 10 Don't Come Easy 11 Gold Cortina 12 Nowhere Maybe...

dangaroo 19.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of West 12 To Wittering - Dirty Strangers (The)

Slav Slut

Advantages: entertaining read with depth
Disadvantages: I couldn't find any

...English, and she is cleaning the house and looking after him. She sits on his lap and allows him to fondle her breasts.? If he?s got this young woman in his house, he can enjoy his last years in his own house (?Tell me Nadezhda, do you think it would be possible for a man of eighty-four to father a child??) and doesn?t have to go to an old people?s home, besides, he?ll be able to wallow in nostalgia, ?Ukraina will come home to him?. Valentina?s breasts are mentioned repeatedly in the story, Nikolai says about his future wife ?Botticelli?s Venus . . . superior breasts?. Ha! Obviously the author fell in love with the sound of the Italian painter?s name, she can?t have studied his paintings well, the breasts of Botticelli?s Venus are nothing to write home about, believe me, go to the Uffizi Museum in Florence and see for yourselves! They are...

MALU 11.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka

The Elegant Venus

Advantages: Colourful, entertaining
Disadvantages: A bit daft in places

...waist with a hunting knife in a leather sheath at her right hip. The belt made her nakedness extraordinarily erotic. She stood in the relaxed pose of the nude, all the weight on the right leg and the left knee bent and turned slightly inwards, the head to one side as she examined the things in her hand.' Honeychile to Bond is Botticelli?s Venus seen from behind. As ever with Fleming there are some rather dated elements, such as the employees of Dr No, of black and Chinese extraction, being termed 'Chigroes' for some reason. One thing that is enjoyable about the novel though is the way certain (now familiar) traits and characters are starting to be firmly established in James Bond's orbit - such as Service Armourer Major Boothroyd (Q) and 007's request for 'a medium Vodka dry martini with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred, please...

arthurpringle 20.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Dr No - Ian Fleming

~~My first impressions were wrong!~~

Advantages: A timely review with some accounts of Sept 11 disaster
Disadvantages: Nothing so far except for its hardbound price

...storytellers in the 21st century. This is a new literary work which somewhat different from his traditional stories. The story reminded me of my interest in arts and my hobby of collecting big posters (movies, portrait, and landscapes); and jigsaw puzzles, coaster (Im not a drinker) and my painting as well. It also reminds me of my personal appreciation to visit museums and galleries to view some magnificent works of prominent artists around the world like the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Picasso, Raphael, Botticelli, etc. To date, I have not even purchase any of these masterpieces, even a 'CLONE' (fake) of one of them. But my wish, maybe someday I could own one! This is a worth purchase for my first book of Archer in hardcover! I bought it from Tesco at 9.97 pounds but I found Steward Miller is cheaper (6.99 pounds, paperbound...

digitalenvironmentalist 30.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of False Impression - Jeffrey Archer

This Love and These Wounds Are A Cherished Pain...

Advantages: the original Trinity Blood concept by creator Sunao Yoshida gives extra insight
Disadvantages: not for the young, nor the weak stomached

...the way from a Botticelli type delicateness to a more aristocraticly haughty beauty. That is not to say that the humans are all ugly, as they are not; they too tend to be rather attractive, but in a less spectacular way. The real stand out though is not in how the characters themselves look as people, but in the clothes and accessories. Shibamoto draws in a richness of detail that adds great interest to the pictures and adds depth to the text provided by Yoshida. This is just as well, for while not written for children, it is aiming to be a light, quick read for the masses, so the language used is deliberately uncomplicated but not ridiculously low level. The reasoning behind this lies in the nature of the original culture. Light novels and manga are commonly read by during lunch breaks, on daily train commutes, and so on, so a story has to...

Shroud 08.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of Trinity Blood: Rage Against the Moons: v. 1 - Sunao Yoshida & Thores Shibamoto

Mona Lisa, Leonardo & Florence

Advantages: Great fiction about passion & power struggles in 15th century Florence.
Disadvantages: Historical accuracy of the main character?

...research published by the Discovery Channel suggests that Lisa Gherardini ?lead a very ordinary life,? unlike the one in this story. But both fact and fiction agree on the names of her parents, and that she married a Florentine silk merchant. The powerful MEDICI family were famous for sponsoring art, their banking business and producing popes and rulers of Florence. The family members most prominent in this story are Lorenzo The Magnificent (1449-1492), and his three sons Piero, Giovanni and Giulianno. While the story is true to these basic facts, the elaborate plot including Lisa Gerardina, doesn?t appear to be supported by what most historians now believe. In the book she meets the artists Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo through visiting the Medici family?s palace in Florence. The historically important PAZZI family...

luckyarchers 18.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Painting the Mona Lisa - Jeanne Kalogridis

MR ZEEMAN'S HELPFUL ADVICE TO THIN PERSONS.

Advantages: PREVENTS ME FROM BECOMING A SMUG SUPER-MODEL
Disadvantages: IT ISN'T PACKAGED IN 1-LITRE TUBS.

...Mr-zeeman is frequently asked: ?Why are you so pleasantly plump when you eat virtually nothing?? Until recently I attributed my robust build to a faulty thyroid gland and little else. However, the said organ was wrest from my neck in March ? and yet I have somehow managed to maintain the stunning appearance of a Botticelli* maiden. So how have I accomplished this feat? Well, although I?m a tad reluctant when it comes to divulging precious beauty secrets, I am prepared to let rip with this one: Amongst other things, I eat copious amounts of Muller ?Thick & Creamy Yoghurt?, on a regular basis. My first encounter with this ambrosia was years ago, when I bought a Muller ?Fruit Corner? out of curiosity. Externally it had the appearance of a substantial amount of food ? but having removed the lid I was dismayed to find that I had...

mr-zeeman 14.08.2003 · Read review
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Review of Muller Thick & Creamy Yoghurt

Fabulous Florence

Advantages: Beauty. History, Culture. Good food and wine
Disadvantages: Expensive. Crowded with tourists.

...the de' Medici Villa in Rome to the Uffizi. You will discover some of the finest Renaissance art in the world in the Uffizi gallery. There is one huge room which houses the work of Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) including his much admired Birth of Venus, The Magnificat Madonna, Portrait of Lucrezia and Primavera. Besides the works of Botticelli, the Gallery has halls devoted to the likes of Giotto and the Tuscan primitives, to the Sienese School of the 14th century and to Antonio and Pietro Pollaiolo. The National Museum of the Bargello houses a priceless collection of Tuscan Renaissance sculptures by Cellini, Giambologna and Verrocchio as well as some of Michelangelo's early works such as his bust of Brutus (1504). You could spend days touring the art galleries and museums of Florence but you must reserve some time for visiting...

ashford 09.08.2000 · Read review
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Review of Florence (Italy)

Nun of that, now...

Advantages: Fun, lively, interesting, colourful
Disadvantages: Exclusively Western in approach

..., architecture, pottery decoration, and later illuminated manuscripts of a glorious scale. + Gothic Painting The Gothic style began in the twelfth century, at the height of the Middle Ages -- largely known as an architectural style perhaps best exemplified by cathedrals, Gothic painting brought a trend of realism to painting that had previously been dominated by idealistic renderings. Some primary figures in Gothic painting include Giotto, Hieronymus Bosch, Jan van Eyck, and some anonymous painters, such as the Master of Avignon of created a famous Pieta in 1470. + Italian Renaissance In the history of Western art, no time period stands taller than the Italian Renaissance. Figures such as Michelangelo , Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, El Greco, Titian, and Raphael have names that still top any list when thinking about enduring artists...

frkurt 12.09.2004 · Read review
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Review of The Story of Painting - Wendy Beckett