I have resorted to five stars for Lough Erne Golf Resort

Advantages: Excellent food, accommodation and service
Disadvantages: None

...The Lough Erne Golf Resort and Spa is listed on Ciao as a 4 star hotel, but it is now actually a 5 star facility. I have just reached a milestone age, I celebrated my 40th birthday and I asked my husband to arrange a night away for the two of us, a major logistical feat for us. I am a married mother of three children, aged 8, 5 and 15 months and I work full-time so arranging any free time let alone a night away is something of a major event. Why did we choose the Lough Erne Golf Resort? Well to be honest the decision was not based on any strong desire to play golf, well at least not in February. Basically we were looking for somewhere that would offer us a night of luxury, with good food and comfort and somewhere we would not have to travel too far to get to. I would have loved to have gone somewhere exotic and hot, but...

lorna_call 23.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Lough Erne Golf Resort, Enniskillen

Boy A

Advantages: Easy read, real page turner
Disadvantages: Based on tragic events

... Boy A As both a film broadcasted by Channel Four and a Book, Boy A has shocked me to the core, its shockingly realistic and naked representation of children in society is not hidden, however it amazingly portrays the other side to cruelty and violence from very young children against other children. Something that I had not considered ever wanting to understand or ever realised how deep and conflicted my opinions could become. I hope that readers can appreciate that this review is not just of a book and is also of a documentary/film and of the tragic reality that the book tells. The Book Boy A is a novel written by a British author called Jonathan Trigell and it was published in 2004. The novel tells the story of a young man released into society after being imprisoned as a very young boy, he has a new identity...

amyloop 16.09.2009 (24.09.2009) · Read review
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Review of Boy A - Jonathan Trigell

* Boys *

Advantages: Catchy , Good Beat
Disadvantages: None

...cheated on her and filmed it so she could see it. Britney married Jason Allen Alexander who was one of her life long friends.Their marriage lasted just over 50 hours. Britney then married dance Kevin Federline , who she has now divorced.Together they have two children : two year old Sean Preston and one year old Jayden James.Kevin currently has custody of the two children. Britney has sold an estimated eighty three million records worldwide and she was once named the most powerful popstar. Boys was released in the United Kingdom on July 29th 2008. Boys comes under the dance-pop and R n B genres. The length of this song is three minutes and twenty five seconds.Boys is taken off Britney's third album ; Britney. Boys is one of my favourite Britney songs. When I first heard it I really didn't like it! But now , I absolutely love it! It is...

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Review of Boys - Britney Spears

A Boy Betrayed

Advantages: An insight into the lives of those whom are abused
Disadvantages: Extremely sad and disturbing

...was a little boy aged 5 and this is when the abuse started ? Stuart lived on a council estate in Manchester with his mother and father and his siblings Shirley and Christine; Shirley is the eldest sibling and is disabled and confined to a wheelchair 24/7. Stuarts upbringing in the Manchester Council estate wasn?t the best, he and his sisters lived in a dirty house with his mother and fathers dog?s ? Stuart describes the house as being really filthy and constantly smelling of cigarette smoke, damp and dogs. As well as living in a filthy house Stuart is often starving as there is no food in the house to eat and he is often sent out begging for money or food etc from his neighbours. This isn?t all Stuart has to deal with as he is often beat up by his father for nothing at all and by the way Stuart describes the beatings it is hard to...

just.bcoz 23.11.2009 (24.11.2009) · Read review
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Review of Please, Daddy, No: A Boy Betrayed - Stuart Howarth

About a Boy

Advantages: Wonderfully written, full of Dahl's delightful storytelling ability
Disadvantages: Over all too quickly

...As an English Teacher, I come across all manner of extracts from assorted novels in textbooks - selected paragraphs of Potter, or snippets of Orwell and Huxley chosen for some part of the language they contain. However, no author seems to feature as regularly as Roald Dahl; perhaps it's because his books are especially accessible, or perhaps there's something essentially English in character about his writing. In any case, I always enjoy coming across Dahl's work wherever I find it - even stories I've read dozens of times before are still delightfully funny, clever and fresh. Boy is the first part of Roald Dahl's autobiography, published in 1984 and covering the first twenty years of his life. From his earliest memories and childhood holidays up to the day he left school and set off for the world of work, this memoir recounts a range...

Puggers 25.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl

The persian boy

Advantages: beautifully written, great characters, more about Alexander the Great, historic, romantic
Disadvantages: contains violence and abuse

...Today I have the pleasure to present to you one of my favourite books ever. This book is so intense and beautiful - I soaked it up like a sponge! The persian boy What is it? "The persian boy" is a novel by Mary Renault. Mary Renault was born in 1905 and lived until 1983. She was a lesbian and fought the Apartheid in South Africa. She wrote several books on Alexander the Great - a biography and several historic novels centering him. It is assumed that Alexander was bisexual and took the persian eunuch Bagoas with him when he connquered Persia. This book tells us a lot about Alexander through the eyes of Bagoas, his lover and servant. Why did I buy it? When the Alexander movie by Oliver Stone came out in 2004, I was absolutely amazed and wanted to find out more about Alexander. I was thrilled when I found out about Mary...

morticiaaddams 24.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Persian Boy - Mary Renault

Robot Boy

Advantages: none spring to mind
Disadvantages: Considering this is for children I am shocked

...Robot Boy is a Cartoon showed regularly on Cartoon Network. It has only been created in the last two years and in my opinion someone should sort this program out. Tommy is a 10 year old boy, and Robotboy's new owner,Professor Moshimo has entrusted him to his greatest fan tommy ,so that Robot Boy can learn to become like a real boy. Tommy is an intellegent young boy who is constantly trying to teach Robot Boy right from wrong,also has an older brother, a bully by the name of Donnie. Apart from the obvious of the fact that tommy`s brother is a vicious bully with never seems to be stopped.or repremanded for.We have Gus, a character that is referred to as The G Man,who is obese and seems ok for the program makers to portray the facts that he can gorge himself stupid with junk food,confectionary and icecream,and this is acceptable...

welshwickedone 24.07.2006 · Read review
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A Suitable Boy

Advantages: well written and interesting..
Disadvantages: lenghty passages that could have been trimmed down

...Born in 1952 in Calcutta, India, VIKRAM SETH was educated at Oxford, Stanford University and Nanjing University..He has travelled widely and lived in Britain,China and the USA.He now lives in Calcutta, India His first novel, THE GOLDEN GATE : A NOVEL IN VERSE(1986), describes the experiences of a group of friends living in California.. His second novel A SUITABLE BOY, at 1347 pages ,is one of the longest novels ever published in a single volume in the English language...It won the prestigious Booker's award for 1994... Set in the post-indpendance India in the early 1950's, it deals with the efforts of a widowed mother looking for a SUITABLE BOY for her daughter...The novel begins with a wedding and closes with a wedding...It is a very colorful novel with accounts of festivals,the exotic food and the rich and flashy lifestyles...

kiran8 31.07.2008 (01.08.2008) · Read review
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Review of A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

Biker boys from hell

Advantages: Great visuals, great acting, great sound track
Disadvantages: None that I can think of

...Written by Janice Fischer, James Jeremias and Jeffrey Boam, and directed by Joel Schumacher The Lost Boys is a cult vampire film that was released back in 1987. Many people see this as the ultimate vampire movie, with good reason, and is a classic that will never be topped. ****Story line**** Lucy Emerson (Diane West) has recently divorced her husband. She takes her two sons Michael Emerson (Jason Patric) and Sam Emerson (Corey Haim) to live with her father (played by Barnard Hughes) in Santa Carla, which just so happens to be inhabited by a motor biking, gang of blood sucking teen vampires. Older son Michael falls for a Star (Jamie Gertz), a local girl, but he ends up being seduced by David (Kiefer Sutherland) and becomes an associate of the gang. In order to become a fully fledged member there is a specific initiation that he...

yackers1 02.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Lost Boys (DVD)

  Refugee Boy

Advantages: Moving and sensitively written; a timely response to our very public issues of asylum seekers.
Disadvantages: None.

...Imagine the opening of a book where a family in Ethiopia are ripped from their beds in the night and ordered by armed soldiers to leave the country because the father, an Ethiopian is a "traitor" for marrying a woman from Eritrea, and his son a "mongrel." Imagine the opening of a book where a family in Eritrea are ripped from their beds in the night and ordered by armed soldiers to leave the country because the mother, an Eritrean is a "traitor" for marrying a man from Ethiopia, and her son a "mongrel." I've tried to mirror in a small way, the devastating opening of Benjamin Zephaniah's Refugee Boy. The first two chapters are identical but for the setting and the parent, and without any further explanation of the conflict we immediately understand the plight of 14 year old Alem, the son of this family, who is both Ethiopian...

ruth_cole 10.11.2003 · Read review
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