The not so cheeky guide to the book

Advantages: Hilariously funny and often quite useful
Disadvantages: If you parents read this they probably wont allow you to go to uni

...Moving to university is a big step and this book may help you with that step, ok so this is not likely but hey, its a great read. From the authors of other Cheeky Guides (such as Brighton and Oxford) this book will take you through the world of student life and is an essential for any future student, present student, past student, or anyone brave enough to investigate university life. The book was a gift to me and not a book I would normally read so I was very sceptical before I read it. The good thing about the book is for you hardened readers it will keep you gripped for long enough to read the whole book but for lightweight readers such as me (maybe half an hour a day), the book can be picked up and put down as many thimes with no plot to lose. The book is written by a group of five authors who have all been to university...

leighton_87 18.03.2005 · Read review
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Compact Guide to Croatia

Advantages: Compact size and waterproof cover
Disadvantages: Disjointed and hard to find information.

...I am the sort of person who enjoys planning for their holiday. I love researching our destination and I devour as much information as I can before I go as I find that if I am knowledgeable about a place I enjoy myself much more. Embarking on a cruise last year was my idea of heaven as it gave me ample opportunity to research lots of different places. One of our ports of call was Dubrovnik and it soon became apparent that this would be a suitable destination for an independent sightseeing tour. I read quite a bit on the internet but decided that taking a guidebook with us was probably a wise move. My local bookshop only had one book covering Croatia so that?s how I came to purchase the Berlitz Pocket Guide at £4.99. Appearance First impressions of this guidebook were very positive. It is, as the name suggest, compact in...

Meggysmum 15.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Croatia Berlitz Pocket Guide

Brilliant Brits Guide!

Advantages: Clearly laid out with really useful information.
Disadvantages: -

...Before I go on holiday I delight in researching where I am going. I love to know lots about my destination and I feel I get a lot more out of my holiday if I am well-informed. My family always tease me about the fact I like to be so ultra organised but really they agree that our holidays are usually interesting and fun as a result. When we decided to visit Orlando several years ago my planning went into overdrive. I thought that it was somewhere we would only visit once and knew I wanted to "do" as much as we could. Little did I know that we would return several times as we love it -but thats another review! I began looking around for a good guide book that particularly focused on the Orlando area. There are several books which cover the whole of Florida but since we had young children we did not want to do much travelling...

Meggysmum 23.09.2009 · Read review
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Oscar Wilde's obsession with books

Advantages: Full of fascinating information about Wilde's life and love of books
Disadvantages: None really, except maybe best enjoyed by those with some prior knowledge of Wilde

...The controversial Victorian playwright and poet Oscar Wilde, so the introduction to this book tells us, ?devoured and luxuriated in books?. He had a lifelong thirst for reading, so it?s not surprising to find that his house in Chelsea was packed with them. Not only was he an avid collector, but he was also an accomplished speed reader with a remarkable ? and to some extent photographic ? memory which helped him to absorb and recall instantly vast amounts of prose and verse. As a reviewer for the Pall Mall Gazette, he could master a book's content, plot or argument in minutes. (If only ciao had been around in those days as well). Maybe it is only fair to get the one major chink in his armour out of the way quickly. Once, when he was preparing a lecture on the poet Chatterton, most of his notes were made up of entire pages and paragraphs...

JOHNV 24.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Oscar's Books - Thomas Wright

A Book Lover

Advantages: Well-drawn characters. Creative use of words.
Disadvantages: A little difficult to adjust to the changing style of writing

...War, it is difficult to imagine that a new novel could be unusual ? yet ?The Book Thief? manages to be just that. It is unusual and unique. The narrator of the story is death. Other books have used death as a narrator before ? Terry Pratchett springs to mind for one however I can think of none for the subject of World War. Zusak said recently at the Hay Festival that War and Death are like best friends so to find death hanging around during World War II would not be unusual. Death is omnipresent and throughout the novel Zusak gives us odd glimpses of the universal tragedies of the War. On the whole though, Zusak remains focused on Liesel and her fellow occupants of Himmel Street. Zusak states that he has approached the book from a personal angle. He recalls two main stories told by his mother: one about the bombing of Munich and how...

MAFARRIMOND 03.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Triangular Guide

Advantages: Detail, Pictures & Diagrams
Disadvantages: Friends kept stealing it

...for your trip to this fascinating region. Then again, I am a fan of Eyewitness guides in general but I know some people absolutely hate the format! The best endorsement I can give it is that this book was regularly passed around all the other people who came to stay for a few weeks and I actually left it in India with my friend who was going to be there for a few months as the preferred it to the guide he had bought. In addition, when I returned for a few weeks in 2007, it was the first thing in my suitcase - well, after my torch!! The RRP for the book is £14.99 although I got mine for £10.99. I have seen it on Amazon Marketplace for around the £6 mark (used) and on Ebay for £5.99. It may also be worth checking out the publishers website www.dk.com as they regularly have offers such as 3 for 2....

BristolBud 02.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Eyewitness Travel Guide: Delhi, Agra & Jaipur - Kate Poole

Good solid guide book

Advantages: Good history backgrounds
Disadvantages: Directions a bit off

...I went on a guided tour of Egypt and then independently in Cairo using the Rough Guide for directions and advice when needed. For the guided tour I didn't need to use the book for directions but found they were mostly right. The history and explainations of the sights are all detailed and accurate as well. The advice on dangers, tourist traps and scams were all good as well. I used it most often around Cairo and found the directions generally OK but of limited use. I think Cairo changes too fast for any guide book to be useful though, and no reliable maps of Cairo exist anyway. So I found bus stops, stations and hostels moved or non-existent, prices way off and and new scams. The major monuments are still where they should be, but ticket prices were generally increased or inflated. They were probably negotiable though. The maps needed...

Tegteg 26.06.2005 · Read review
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Tweenies Book

Advantages: children will enjoy it
Disadvantages: none unless your child wants you to read it about 10 times a day

..., Doodles be red and yellow'. Dotman (Jake) comes to the rescue. You then pull the picture of doodles out and his colours have returned. Turn over the page and Jakes teddy has losts its colours too. Dotman to the rescue 'Lovely colours where are you? Teddy be brown and blue' and of course when you pull the teddy from the page it turns brown and blue. The book goes on in a similar way Bella's dragon has no colours so Dotman comes to the rescue and then he rescues Fizz's butterfly. He thinks he has rescued all the colours until they look out of the window and the garden has no colours - so one last rescue. The pull outs are quite cleverly done there is an outline of each picture on clear plastic, underneath that is the coloured picture and the clear plastic slots over plain white card but when you pull it out the plain card stays behind...

rojm 26.11.2009 · Read review
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Look Out, He's Behind You! - not a pantomine

Advantages: Offers interaction with a familiar story
Disadvantages: None

...Look out he?s behind you! is a book I took out of the library a few weeks ago for my grandchildren to read while visiting me for the day. They thoroughly enjoyed it inspite of there agea of 2 and 3 years which has led ne to write this review. RRP - £5.99 Publisher - Frances Lincoln Books ISBN - 978-1-84507-734-1 Format - 20page paperback Ages - 4 -8 years The front cover of the book features a young girl in a bright red coat and hat holding a basket with a wolf watching from behind a tree. On the back cover the wolf is more prominent and appears to be saying ?sssssh!? as the young girl disappears into the distance. The story is obviously the tale of Red Riding Hood who is on her way to visit her sick grandmother with a basket full of goodies. The story starts by introducing the different characters in the book , Little Red Riding...

colliedog2 19.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Look Out, He's Behind You! - Tony Bradman

The best revision guides!

Advantages: colourful, brokendown info, helpful diagrams, humour
Disadvantages: not enough info

...When revising a subject or topic it is never easy. The best way to do this is by making it as easy as possible. The C.G.P revision books understand and have made their revision books both easy and practical to use. The C.G.P Company are situated at Newcastle upon Tyne. C.G.P stands for Coordination Group Publication Ltd. The company are widely used in most schools across the UK. This is because the revision guides are so good and have helped many students pass exams. They have excellently made long-winded passages of heavy material into straightforward and readable paragraphs. The company have divided the topics into more easy to digest sections. This makes revision a little easier to cope with. Also helping students divide there revision time up into these sections. The revision guides deliver vital...

emi_angel 17.02.2006 (04.06.2006) · Read review
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