Man Flails Whilst Beaten By Toddler

Advantages: The Game
Disadvantages: The Shame

...and untangling lots of very tangled stuff. I, like every man since Adam ignored the "Apple Trees - A user's guide" book, paid a cursory glance at the instructions and dived right into battle. In an anticlimactic minute or three, everything that required connecting betwixt the television and my glossy white box had been, and the sleek sensor receptor had been sticky tabbed to the top of my television. And mighty easy it all seemed to be. I hit the AV button on the remote and as if mysterious forces beyond my comprehension were at work, there it was. I was set up. With my Wii came the game Wii Sports and one controller and one nunchuck - an extension to the otherwise one-handed controller. It was less than 24 hours before I'd bought a second controller and nunchuck. Each controller is safely attached to your wrists by a strap. Forgive me brother...

Muffin_the_Mule 23.05.2008 · Read review
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Dead Man's footsteps by Peter James

Advantages: brilliant crime story you won't want to put down
Disadvantages: If you haven't read the previous books you may lack some background

...This is the forth book in the Roy Grace series and I was very pleased to receive it for Christmas as I have read the other three. You do not need to have read the others though as this stands fine on it's own as a stand alone story but you would have more background into the characters if you had read them. The story centres around the discovery of a skeleton in a storm drain in Brighton, a man caught up in the 9/11 disaster and a woman on the run. The book starts in the present day with the discovery of the skeleton and Superintendent Roy Grace being called to the scene. The skeleton appears to be about 9 years old which causes Grace to worry that it may be the skeleton of his wife who disappeared that long ago and has never been seen since. The book then travels back to 11th September 2001 and you discover Ronnie Wilson on his...

starjen 10.01.2009 · Read review
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The Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton

Advantages: Interesting
Disadvantages: Leaves some important facts out

...The book by Paul Britton The Jigsaw Man is An interesting book. It tells how an underachiever from a state secondary modern eventually became the best criminal forensic psychological profiler in the UK. In fact from reading Britton's glowing paean of praise for himself, one would be led to the conclusion that Britton was the only forensic psychological profiler in the UK. The book details in somewhat gruesome detail all of the cases that Britton has been involved in. By reading the book one obtain the impression that Britton single-handedly (aided or sometimes stymied by the police) solved a variety of high-profile cases from the Fred and Rosemary West murders, the murder of Caroline Osborne in Leicestershire, the vicious double sex-assault murder of Samantha Bissett and her 4-year-old daughter Jazmine to name only a few...

Martinscholes 30.07.2006 · Read review
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A charming man...

Advantages: Very easy to read, excellent story, wonderfully written
Disadvantages: A bit slow to start

...Although it?s over a month since I read this, I still think about it sometimes, and for me, that?s one of the things that makes a great book!! The book is centred on Paddy de Courcy, an Irish Politician who is about to get married, but it is from 4 different perspectives throughout the book and we only actually meet Paddy through the other characters. The book opens with a newspaper article - ?De Courcy to wed? before going into each of the characters individual sections for the actual content of the story. ~ Lola ~ The first section of the book is written by Lola, who is Paddy?s girlfriend and is devastated to discover that he is getting married and it?s not to her! Lola?s first section is over 100 pages long and is written in first person in a journal like form. I found this was quite difficult to read at first as some...

bluejules 05.09.2009 · Read review
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Mystery Man by Colin Bateman; Murder is our Business

Advantages: Humourous, light reading and good for holidays
Disadvantages: Neuroses of the hero can be annoying

...The owner of a bookshop in Belfast, situated next to a detective agency is the theme for a fast paced hilarious thriller with tinges of menace, romance, mystery and murder. The No Alibis bookshop which specialises in crime thrillers ( tag line Murder is our business) is run by a depressive, neurotic, hypochondriac owner - the hero of the story ? who starts to get clients calling in on the bookshop and asking him to solve their cases when the detective agency next door appears to have closed. His part time trusty assistant Jeff who writes poetry and belongs to Amnesty International and will not venture into Starbucks for a coffee because he?s against globalisation, then there is Alison the beautiful girl in the jewellery shop across the road, whom has taken his eye. There are other characters in abundance, ex-paramilitary taxi...

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The $3 million Man

Advantages: Excellent acting, powerful story
Disadvantages: Dated now

...On my latest shopping trip and the usual walk past the bargain DVD?s I happened to spot this one and wondered to myself my I had never seen it before as it stars two actors which I really do like. At the start of the film we meet Charles Babbitt, played by Tom Cruise who owns a business and is in desperate need of money to save this business. He is off on a business trip with his girlfriend when he gets news that his father has died. Charles is not sad by this as he hadn?t spoken to his father since he was 16. Charles does attend the funeral as he needs to find out what is going to happen to all his father money and property as he really could do with this money. Charles soon discovers that he has only bee left the car and the money and property have been given to a trustee. With some research Charles is lead to a hospital where he...

sewbizzie 15.07.2009 · Read review
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Be Pampered by the Muffin Man Shower Gel

Advantages: A twist on the usual lemon shower gel
Disadvantages: The very sweet lemon smell might not suit everyone

...Philosophy really is a fantastic brand - the scents are so strong that they not only perfume your body and hair, but your whole bathroom. They really are delicious. I was first introduced to the muffin man when I bought a the "a few good men" lip gloss trio. Muffin Man is a sugary lemon custard scent - not sharp and fruity, but more like a lemon flavoured cake (as the name suggests). After smelling (and tasting) the lovely lemon lipgloss, I got a bit addicted to the few good men products, and bought some gift "suitcases" for me and and all my friends. These included the shower gel - which didn't dissapoint. The lemon custard scent comes through really strongly, and the texture and foam is excellent, as it is with all Philosophy shower gels. You'll feel clean, fresh and pampered after every shower or bath. Philosophy shower gels...

cloudwood88 15.02.2009 · Read review
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Jim Carrey, the man who like to say yes?

Advantages: Quirky, endearing performances. Restrained Carrey
Disadvantages: Random gross-out moments are misplaced.

...Carl is a man who doesn't say "yes" to much. As a result he has managed to be rejected for promotion and has become isolated from friends as he lets them down time after time. Endless DVD nights on his own are commonplace and his life becomes more tragic by the minute. However, a chance meeting with an old friend may well change all that as Carl is about to become the man who likes to say yes! "Yes Man" is massively different from what I was expecting. The concept is almost a verbatim copy of Jim Carrey's previous film "Liar Liar" and I was expecting more of the same. However, refreshingly this is a more subtle affair from that rubber-faced slapstick comedy. A gentile romantic-comedy, "Yes Man" contains a surprisingly subdued Carrey and is better for it. Carl's self-loathing and pity is clear from the outset and this makes him...

Shortsharpshock 15.09.2009 · Read review
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The Con Man's Daughter by Ed Dee

Advantages: Strong display of grit and determination by protagonist
Disadvantages: At times it gets bogged down with little happening.

...From the beachfront of Coney Island in the heart of Russian mafiya territory and on up to Yonkers The Con Man's Daughter is set in the darker, more dangerous neighborhoods of New York. This is a brooding novel with violence only a matter of eye contact with the wrong person away. Ed Dee immerses us in the dark world controlled by the Russian mafiya, visits with Italian gangsters and reminisces through an ex-cop who gladly bent the law whenever it suited him. Eddie Dunne is 54 years old, an ex-cop, a father and a grandfather. Since leaving the force he has worked a variety of jobs but the most notable was as a chauffeur for Anatoly Lukin, a Russian businessman considered by the police to be a crime lord. When Eddie Dunne witnesses the kidnapping of his daughter he can only think of one person who could be responsible. Yuri...

damieng 12.04.2005 · Read review
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The Running Man

Advantages: great entertaining movie
Disadvantages: none...unless you don't like blood

...show is The Running Man, which is hosted by Damon Killian, (played by Richard Dawson), this show is a simple format, set a criminal (or a 'runner') loose on the derelict streets of old LA and then send several 'Stalkers' to kill them.. much to the pleasure of the watching audience, who enjoy betting on who will survive. Meanwhile, whilst on patrol, a helicopter gunship pilot, Ben Richards, (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger), refuses an order to open fire on unarmed civilians during a food riot and is reprimanded, being framed for mass murder and sent to prison, being called by the media 'the butcher of Bakersfield'. After several month in a high security prison, where they have explosives strapped to their necks to stop them escaping, he and some other manage to escape. Unfortunately, it is not long before Richards is caught...

blissman70 02.08.2008 · Read review
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