Oxford Brookes is a good University in a beautiful city

Advantages: Good facilities for teaching, socialising and sports
Disadvantages: Very expensive

...As a Postgraduate Student at Oxford Brookes I had high hope when I enrolled. I have found the the teaching facilities and equipment very good. The buildings themselves in some departments are a little old fashioned on the exterior, but the interior makes up for it. There are many societies and clubs which are very active within the Students' Union. The nightlife on campus is good with events happening on most nights at the different bars around campus. Being within easy reach of the city, I feel, means that you can tailor your student experience in the way you want. Oxford itself has more of a pub than club culture, but there are some good clubs out there too, which I think compliment the club nights at the Student Union very well. Accommodation is of a high standard. The Sports Centre is particularly noteworthy as it has very high...

twinkle321 29.06.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Oxford Brookes University

Brooke

Advantages: Great plot, gripping
Disadvantages: Ghost writer, Short

...a course which would map out the rest of her life as an author. Before her passing in 1986 caused by breast cancer she wrote eight books including the imfamous 'Flowers in the attic'. With hundreds of more ideas penned, the family members left behind sort and found Andrew Neiderman who was to become her ghost writer. He now uses her short stories and makes them into a novel which is then published under her name. In 1998 the five books of the Orphan series was published. Like most others made the idea is four separate storys which somehow come together to create the fifth, In this instance the books in order were to be named Crystal, Butterfly, Brooke, Raven and finally Runaways. Plot At the tender age of two Brooke Okun is abandoned by her mother and is left with only a faded pink ribbon to remember her. This allows Brooke...

ovetta2001 06.02.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Review of Brooke - Virginia Andrews

Brookes Uni

Advantages: Modular study, good social aspects.
Disadvantages: Oxford has the equivalent cost of living in London.

...Oxford Brookes University is a great place to learn. The courses are modular, so within each course, the student chooses what subjects to take and what to avoid. All this can be done over the internet from any computer in the world, using the brilliant PIP pages on the university page. The modular nature means that instead of having three/four years of study and then huge exams, you have exams at the end of each term - much less stressful. Socially, Brookes could not be much better. We have some great bands playing - this term we have the NME Carling Awards (Starsailor, Alfie, Amen, JJ72), Divine Comedy, Pitchshifter, Ash and some others. The student union bars are cool, the staff are friendly and everything is generally made as fun as possible....

adam.hopkinson 12.02.2001 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Oxford Brookes University

Brookes-Worth Every Penny!

Advantages: good Union, friendly people, lovely city, wide choice of courses
Disadvantages: expensive, hell to drive in, WARNING-this review's pretty long, sorry!

...After coming on here and reading the other reviews written about Brookes, I feel obliged to write my own to defend my poor uni! Most of these reviews were written over 2 years ago, so I would like to give a more up-to-date perspective, as I have just finished my first year there. First of all, I do agree that Oxford is an expensive area to live in. You do get less for your money here than you might in Northern or Welsh universities, for example. However, with regards to student accommodation, you get what you pay for. The two most expensive halls are newly built, with decent sized rooms with internet connections and ensuite bathrooms, plus they're brilliantly located. Nightlife wise, the Student Union (SU)'s quite reasonable on club nights. Oxford has many student nights at its bars, where entry is often free and drinks prices are...

jlkovacs1 21.07.2004 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Oxford Brookes University

Brookes, good if you're lucky

Advantages: rating improving every year, some departments rated excellent, Oxford
Disadvantages: Wheatley campus 5 miles out, Not like a 'real' uni, Teaching can be lazy, People can be stuffy

...Well, i am just coming to the end of my first year at Brookes University and i have decided to move uni's. This isn't because the place is absolutely terrible, it is not. However the brilliant reviews and comments from some of the people on this site must have come from people who got extremely lucky. The first thing that should be said is that there is a massive amount of public school (privately paid for school) and interntaional students, fair enough i hear you say! Well let me just say that the international students are not likely to talk to you but amass in little groups of their same nationality. The public school people have already made a network of friends and will not talk to you as they have no need to. This uni feels like it has an awfully large number of students who have come here just so they could be near their...

Klang180 26.05.2003 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Oxford Brookes University

Brooks & Marshall - Fascinating Characters

Advantages: Engrossing storyline, superb acting.
Disadvantages: None.

...Director: Bruce A. Evans Writers: Bruce A. Evans & Raynold Gideon Genre: Crime - Drama - Mystery - Thriller Country: USA Certification: 18 Language: English Released: 8th February, 2008 (DVD) MAIN CAST: Kevin Costner (Mr. Earl Brooks) William Hurt (Marshall) Demi Moore (Detective Tracy Atwood) Dane Cook (Mr. Smith) Marg Helgenberger (Emma Brooks) Danielle Panabaker (Jane Brooks) Earl Brooks is a highly successful businessman, a loving husband and a doting father-but he's also a serial killer who loves killing couples and placing them in romantic positions so that he can photograph them. When Mr. Brooks inadvertently leaves the curtains open during a murder, an amateurish mistake caused by an unconscious desire to be caught and stopped, he is captured on camera by a voyeur who was getting off watching...

GoFigure 09.09.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Mr. Brooks (DVD)

Killing by the Brooks

Advantages: Dane Cook shows he may have range and William Hurt is very good.
Disadvantages: Poor writing and direction that leads to an absence of tension.

...Mr Brooks is a successful businessman and devoted husband and father. But unbeknownst to anyone else, he's also a prolific serial killer and one who is so good that he's never been caught. He's tried desperately to control his urges and the sardonic alter-ego he calls Marshall. But when he gives into temptation he's caught on film by a creepy peeping Tom. The next thing he knows, he's tangled up in the twisted agenda of the opportunistic bystander and they are both being hunted by tenacious detective Tracy Atwood. Can Mr Brooks keep his secret under wraps, or will he be exposed to his wife and daughter? This is Bruce A Evans' second feature as director in fifteen years (after the forgettable Christian Slater vehicle "Kuffs") and his inexperience shows. It should be a serial killer movie with a strangely sympathetic anti-hero. But...

afy9mab 24.10.2007 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Mr. Brooks (DVD)

Brooks by day, killer by night!

Advantages: Great film all round
Disadvantages: Complex plot twists in abundance

...When people think of Kevin Costner and his films, you can be pretty sure they're thinking of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, or the flop Waterworld, or his critically acclaimed roles in JFK or Dances With Wolves or the smash hit The Bodyguard. Costner has hit it as a screen legend, but of late he hasn't been as hot in terms of publicity. This surprises me, as two of his more recent roles I consider to be possibly his best. The first is his role as a drifter in the cult western film Open Range. The second is here, as the obsessive serial killer Mr Brooks. Costner seems to excel at the more artistic films that don't hit the screens in such a big way. Mr Brooks is a highly entertaining and well worked thriller directed by Bruce A Evans and starring Costner alongside some other eyebrow raising names such as Demi Moore, William Hurt and CSI...

pmcds 26.03.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Review of Mr. Brooks (DVD)

Black Rabbit Summer by Kevin Brooks is a fantastic book

Advantages: Fantastic story, interesting characters, you can't put it down,
Disadvantages: Not suitable for younger children

...Black Rabbit Summer, by Kevin Brooks When/why/how I got the book I always seem to get given lots of books at Christmas, and this year this was one of the best I was given. I had asked my mum for it, because Kevin Brooks is a fantastic author and this was one of the few books of his I hadn't yet read. I'd read an extract from it at the back of another book, and already wanted to know more about the story. Plot If youre planning to read this, be warned that this might ruin it for you. I won't tell the endings. The book starts when Pete, the main character, is upstairs doing nothing, something he is used to doing quite a lot of, looking forward to the summer holidays, and he gets a phone call from an old friend, Nicole. This is unexpected, he hasn't properly spoken to her for years and he wonders what she wants. What...

Ruby.xo 28.06.2009 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Review of Black Rabbit Summer - Kevin Brooks

Brooks Bridges the gap

Advantages: Life invigorating rebellious country music
Disadvantages: contemporary country lovers may not like

...Title: In Pieces Performer: Garth Brooks Genre: Country Sub Genre: Contemporary Country Release Date: 04/03/2002 Original Release Year: 1993 Garth Brooks is an American country singer/songwriter from Yukon Oklahoma and for those that have seen that constant annoying advert for Who Wants to be a Millionaire, his first name is Troyal. Garth Brooks' success is legendary with several albums going diamond he has sold between 100 and 200 million records, and that is just the tip of the iceberg on his achievements. What Gave Garth this amazing success and made a fan out of me is that he pushed the boundaries of Country music, breathing new life into it and creating a new style of music uniquely his own. Elements of rock, southern rock, swing, country, folk and much more combine giving an almost unbelievable intensity as well as Garth...

runrig2 11.05.2008 · Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Review of In Pieces - Garth Brooks