The Heights of Literature

Advantages: A classic novel that impress peole with your variety of reading materials
Disadvantages: a slightly contrived ending

...As many of you know, I have a great love of literature. Not just the current best sellers but children's classic, adult's classics, text books and many more genres. However, when studying my A2 literature I found that the books lost a lot of the appeal that they once held. Therefore I am pleased to say that I didn't read the classic Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte until just the other day. I had read Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and fell in love at once with Mr Rochester, all of the Austen novels, falling in love at once with Mr Darcy and many of the other Victorian type novels, mostly for pleasure but with the mind that they would help for comparison of texts of the era when I sat the dreaded exam for the worst book I have ever read, Tess of the D'Urbevilles. Now leaving the dreary subject of Tess with her many signs of ill fate...

kamallan 08.02.2007 · Read review
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Summer Heights High - A Triple Threat!

Advantages: Hilarious laugh out loud comedy - when you understand it
Disadvantages: This will probably be the only series

...the Australian of the year competition, Lilley playing all five contestants, and the final of the competition. It is here, one of Summer Heights High?s finest exchange students first appears. The series consists of 8 half hour long episodes, set in sequence following the life of a term at Summer Heights High, a state school in the suburbs. As already alluded to, it follows the lives of three very different characters in the school. Each gives the impression of living their everyday lives whilst being followed be a camera crew for a documentary series looking at their school and their lives within it. Each episode cuts seamlessly across their lives, from one character to the next, with them having small segments of a few minutes at a time. This is understandable as Lilley would have struggled to play the individual characters so well if they...

nicolap 21.09.2009 · Read review
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The Heights Leisure Centre - Isle of WIght

Advantages: great
Disadvantages: none

...The Heights Leisure Centre, Sandown, Isle of Wight...... The Heights Leisure Centre is located on the main road leading into Sandown (The Broadway). It is a large building which was opened on the 25th March 1982. The leisure centre has many activities on offer all priced at a fairly reasonable rate. Listed below are the things that The Heights has to offer and a little bit about it. Swimming ... There is both a children's pool and a regular pool both of a good size although neither full size pools as the large pool measures in at 25 meters. The children's pool however it lovely and warm and Jack does love having a splash around there. The pool is open long hours although it is best to check the timetable as there are classes or lane swimming booking up both pools on some days. For an adult swim you are looking to pay £2...

newby2 17.06.2009 · Read review
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Wuthering Heights

Advantages: Classic Story, Strong characters. Classics often cheap.
Disadvantages: Difficult language. Some complications

...Wuthering Heights is a book about people. It’s a soap opera in the lives of two households in early 19th century northern England and is one of those books that you just have to read. It’s often mistaken for a love story telling the story of the famous romance between Catherine and Heathcliff. That was one of the mistakes I made. Although there is a relationship explored between these two characters, it’s by no means the main aspect of the story. Emily Brontë explores a range of issues in this book which were obvious key aspects of life at this time. Ideas such as inheritance rights, relationships, marriages and death are all dealt with and a range of options given to the reader. This although may make the story itself perhaps seem slightly weak as it appears to deal with too much almost, it’s an outstanding...

emuku 31.07.2001 · Read review
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Wuthering Heights reveiw

Advantages: lots of action,and cleverly written,an amazing peice of english
Disadvantages: long words,starts off slow,its helpfull if you can read between the lines

...Wuthering Heights a deliberately shocking,gothic genre novel which was published in 1847 by Emily Bronte hasnt always been one the greatest love stories written although you would think so after reading it.The exciting and shocking action was to much for the Victorian public to take in! Bronte cleverly reflects the characters through the two contrasting worlds of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange allthroughout the book for all you english fanatics ,but also for those who just want sheer entertainment the story starts off slow in an isolated location where you would imagine that nothing interesting could ever happen, however you will be impressed when the two houses clash like yellow and purple ,leading to a love that destroys everyone it touches.Personnally i enjoyed all aspects of the book ,being a person who seeks...

Ella.x 19.10.2008 · Read review
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Its thick cut pieces

Advantages: tastes good
Disadvantages: hubby does not like thick bits

...Duerr?s of Manchester make some pretty fine jams and marmalades .This thick cut orange marmalade is no exception. This marmalade comes in a 454 g glass jar. The label proudly announcing it is a traditional Seville orange marmalade. It is sealed with a twist lid. The marmalade shines orange through the jar and the thick cut peel can be seen. Now that might be a put off to some people as they dislike thick bits in their marmalade. Duerr?s make many other varieties of marmalade too so you should find one to suit. Opening the jar and there is a delicious smell of oranges. Putting my knife in to get some to put on my toast I find that the marmalade is quite thick and a few of the thick shreds are on my knife. I put some on my toast and spread. It spreads fairly well obviously there are the thick cut shreds too. Tasting my...

mumsymary 04.08.2009 · Read review
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The First Cut Is The Deepest

Advantages: Shocking, Great Performances, Great Visuals
Disadvantages: Bad Story Telling, Slow, A Lot Of Missteps

...and as Frannie begins to lose grip of what is real and what is fiction she finds herself in more danger than she could ever of imagined....... In The Cut is a maddening, beautiful, lyrical mess of a movie; lacking sense or a good story but brimming with sensual style, it flits from brilliant to dreadful in the space of a few frames and is steeped in contradiction -its grubby yet gorgeous, disturbing yet enticing, involving yet detached. A dark thriller that uses New York City like a ferocious character; jungle like, wild and disturbing, a scary urban forest of deceit and fear to create tension. Never sticking with a linear narrative, the film coherency is sacrificed and the flimsy story is never back up with any substance, but it contains imagery that will stay with you long after the credits role and its use of visuals to add horror to...

JayHall1991 27.01.2008 · Read review
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Summer Heights High

Advantages: The Characters
Disadvantages: It May Not Be For Everyone

...This is one of the funniest T.V shows you'll ever see. Chris Lilley stars as the three main characters in the show. Mr.G, Jonah Takalua and also Ja'mie King. Helen 'Greg' Gregson AKA Mr.G is a 36 year old drama teacher. He believes that he is very talented and he also thinks that he show be welcomed by everyone in the school. In the series he is self centered and he is hostile towards the students and staff. Jonah Takalua is a thirteen year old boy in year 8 at Summer Heights High. Jonah and his crew at the school (Poly Force) are always getting into trouble and causing conflict between themselves and the staff. Ja'mie is a private school exchange student. When she first transfers to the school she makes friends with the cool and popular kids at the school. During the series she tries to create a prom for her and her friends...

gsturgeon884 05.01.2009 · Read review
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Get Your Cut

Advantages: Great characters, humour, excellent writing style
Disadvantages: You'll either love or hate the ending, some characters are irritating

...Philippa Gregory is best known for her historical fiction, so I was both curious and apprehensive when I came upon Zelda's Cut in my local library. I was pleasantly surprised: I found a highly original story, fascinating characters and the style of writing that Gregory has honed to perfection - the type that pulls you into a story and captivates you. Zelda's Cut is definitely different to Gregory's best-known works, such as The Other Boleyn Girl and new release The Boleyn Inheritance, but certainly no less enjoyable. Isobel Latimer is a middle-aged writer of intellectual novels exploring morality and sense of duty, plots that she emulates in her everyday life as the wife of an invalid. Her husband, Philip, has an inexplicable and incurable disease that has caused him to lose the strength in his muscles and spends most of his day...

DoubleFantasy11 03.10.2006 · Read review
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The last cut is the deepest

Advantages: thought provoking, good performance by Robin Willams
Disadvantages: confusisng at time, lack of characterisation

...Technology is developing and I am not sure I like the usage of all technology as the Big Brother effect increases. The film "The Final Cut" that stars Robin Williams in the lead role did little to comfort me. The Final Cut is set in a future where the well off can create an amazingly detailed cinematic obituary called a Remorial (sp) using the person's memory. This is done by inserting a Zoë chip into a child's head before birth. This chip is organic and grows with the person throughout their lifetime. When a person dies it is the job of a cutter to edit their memory into a pleasing film for their loved ones to remember them by. The aptly named Allan Hackman (Robin Williams) is a cutter. When creating a film for a prestigious client he is haunted by a figure from his past. He goes on a mission to find out about this person...

duskmaiden 05.10.2005 (11.10.2005) · Read review
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