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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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Christopher Brookmyre's Schooldays

Advantages: Great characters, situations familiar to all of us
Disadvantages: Slightly unsatisfying ending

...I'm not a big fan of crime novels, but with Jasper Fforde and Christopher Brookmyre making such consistently brilliant efforts at subverting the genre, my resistance is being eroded fairly swiftly. Christopher Brookmyre has established a formidable reputation for Scottish crime thrillers. Full of bodily fluids and lurid characters, they're generally hilarious to read, but shot through with such extreme violence that there's no chance of them ever being left in the 'humour' section. A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil is told entirely in the present tense, and follows two linked story strands - the progress through school of a group of Scottish children from their first day right through to their leaving 'dance', and a murder investigation about twenty years later. Brookmyre's previous works have often made a big deal...

Olly_Plimsoll 13.07.2007 · Read review
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Christopher Robin Goes to Skull

Advantages: nice litle adventure with Pooh and friends
Disadvantages: not quite up to the standrard one associates with the franchise

...Poor Pooh! It's the last day of summer, and wanting to have a another grand day of summer playtime with all his friends, he discovers that Christopher Robin cannot come to play. Christopher Robin has left him a note instead, which Pooh and his friends read with great alarm. he has gone to Skull! Oh no! They must save him from the dangers of Skull before something dreadful happens! What follows is a story of friendship and bravery as Pooh, Tigger, Piglet and the gang set out to save their best friend, Christopher Robin. But just where is Skull, and what dangers might this scary sounding place have? They don't know, but they decide to face it all anyway, out of love. This is a feature length film for young fans of Winnie the Pooh, and it's one of the better ones though by no means the best. The animation doesn't have the look...

Shroud 08.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Winnie The Pooh's Most Grand Adventure - Search For Christopher Robin (Animated) (DVD)

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...

bobbacon985 12.02.2009 · Read review
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well done Christopher Paolini!

Advantages: well written and enjoyable
Disadvantages: too short

...of the varden rebels i would reccomend this as a read to anyone and everyone, even if you havnt got the patience to read it then buy the audio books and listen to it in the car on the way to work, or while relaxing in the bath after a long day. Well done Christopher Paolini!...

ferrit54 01.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Eragon - Christopher Paolini

Christopher Pike- final friends trilogy

Advantages: long, lasting and thrilling read
Disadvantages: none

...Christopher Pike is an absolutely fantastic writer, i have read many of his books and have been sad to finish them. Final friends takes you through 3 books: Final Friends 1- the party Final Friends 2- the dance Final Friends 3- the graduation In the first book of the trilogy, a young girl called Alice dies from an aparant suicide at her own party but her close friend michel thinks otherwise. He thinks she was murdered. The books then follow the lives of Alice's friends including Michel who has taken the role as a detective to find out the truth about his friends death. More people die, others get hurt but eventually the truth is revealed. I loved all three of these books, they kept me hooked all the way through. These are not just your average mystery thrillers, they are much more. Pike does not just focus on the one issue...

nicky91 16.09.2007 · Read review
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Christopher Reeve - a tribute

Advantages: The life of a superman
Disadvantages: None

...Hello fellow Ciao reviewers in the community. I have chosen to write a slightly different review today. It is to commemorate the life of a man who inspired and touched me as well as other members of my family. My tribute is to Christopher Reeve. Christopher Reeve was born on 25 September 1952 in New York City. His mother (Barbara Johnson) and father (Franklin Reeve) divorced when Christopher and his brother Ben were four years old, and his mother took them away from New York to New Jersey. Christopher's love of acting shone through from an early age, when joining as many school clubs and after school committments as possible at Princeton Day School. After graduating high school, Reeve toured the country and attended the Cornell University where he majored in English and Music Theory. Reeve appeared in theatres such as...

LR_17 20.10.2004 · Read review
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Little city in the wilderness

Advantages: Gateway to the interior, small & friendly city
Disadvantages: Can get Very cold

...The journey from Anchorage to Fairbanks was done on board a train on the Alaska railroad. During the summer months this is a daily service, but in winter it is weekly. The cost isn't cheap at $125 each one way. The journey took just under 11 hours and is an excellent way to get an idea of the changing scenery Alaska has to offer. For the first half of the journey the train was snaking its way around valleys surrounded by high mountain peaks, the second half by contrast was across a vast area of the interior where the train could go up to an hour without so much as turning a corner of any description. We arrived in Fairbanks about an hour ahead of schedule (UK train operators take note, it is possible). As expected it was snowing and the temperature was zero farenheit. The driver of the cab we had to our B&B was a cheerful guy who...

Adavies344 24.07.2004 · Read review
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Being Christopher Boone

Advantages: Realistic, sensitive and often hysterically funny
Disadvantages: Too much maths!

...As a qualified teacher, I loved this book simply because it provides such an excellent insight into the mind of a young boy with Aspergers syndrome. Whilst the lead character is humourless, confused and lacks engagement with other characters, Mark Haddon demonstrates the exact opposite qualities in this sensitive, funny and realistic read. I particularly enjoyed the way in which the characters and story are portrayed through the eyes of Christopher, which creates an almost parallel reality in which nobody can be trusted and everything is a mathematical mystery. The only parts of the book that I didn't enjoy were the various mathematical formulae and puzzles which seemed to feature far to regularly. As somebody who is not mathematically minded, I found myself skipping past these bits in order to return to the story. I can see why they are...

sarahbeebop 18.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon

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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Review of Yamaha DVD-S 557