The River Runs Dead (Boring)

Advantages: Mildly interesting plot, faintly evocative descriptions.
Disadvantages: Clumsy dialogue, implausible events, horrible writing of characters.

...If you like your thrillers slickly written and sharply observed, don?t read Down River. If you appreciate acute characterisation and believable action, don?t read Down River. Enjoy engaging dialogue, convincing back-stories and clever plotting? Probably best you don?t read Down River. However, if none of the above applies, and you prefer clumsily written mysteries, a worn-out thesaurus and plot holes you can climb through, then by all means, this is a book to savour. Some books and films (and people, for that matter) have quite mystifying levels of success, and John Hart?s second novel is very much one of these. I?m not sure whether Richard & Judy?s Summer Reads is a mark of high-calibre literature, but they make some pretty solid choices, more or less. This being ?less?. Down River is a tale of murder, more murder and comin...

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The White Hart, Lincoln

Advantages: Good setting, salubrious interior
Disadvantages: expensive, poor service

...Despite living in Lincoln, I have only the one experience of the White Hart. My cricket club had it's annual presentation dinner there last year. Location Set in the beautiful, historic uphill Bailgate area in the city centre, The White Hart is in the shadow of the magnificent Lincoln Cathedral. This means it is in the upmarket area of the city, meaning that the prices are higher than if it were elsewhere in the city. Prices It has to be said that the prices are high. We paid £27 for the ticket and this included a 3 course meal and nothing else. At the bar before I bought a round of drinks (two pints of lager and a large glass of white) and it came to a shade over £10. This, to me is quite expensive. Food The food was not the highest quality - indeed for the price we paid it was distinctly below average. The starter...

martin0201 22.11.2007 · Read review
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The wonderful White Hart

Advantages: Great food and lovely place
Disadvantages: Only 1 of them!

...The White Hart, Lydgate, Manchester Going back many many moons (well okay approximately 10 years) the White Hart Inn in Lydgate was your bog standard, not very nice run of the mill typical English pub. It was then purchased by two nice gentlemen; one an extraordinarily talented chef and the other a wonderful business man and hey presto 10 years later you have one of the most thriving 'gastro pubs' in the country that people travel for miles around to come and eat at and has won award upon award. This is a wonderful place to drink and eat where the staff are friendly and knowledgeable, the food is excellent and the surroundings spectacular. Where is it? The White Hart Inn is located in Lydgate Saddleworth and is approximately 15 miles from city centre Manchester and is only about 10 minutes drive from the M62 and is not far...

nickjj78 24.11.2005 · Read review
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Review of The White Hart

White Hart Hotel in Lincoln

Advantages: Close to Historical Landmarks, Friendly Staff, Good Rooms, Stylish
Disadvantages: Expensive Breakfast, Some parts need Refurbishment

...I am writing his review from my White Hart hotel room and in my opinion this is quite an above average hotel. I arrived here with my family (Mum and Dad) yesterday. It was pretty easy to find and get here from Leeds where we spent the day out, just off the A15, but in the next 2 hours when we check out we will be taking the A46 to return home (Reading). The hotel provides their own parking just round the side of the hotel, with a small bay which cars strictly shouldn't stay in at all, but seems to be used by taxis to drop people off. Upon arrival we were greeted by very pleasant reception staff who knew a lot about the local area. Asking about local restaurants they informed us about the various Italian, Mexican, Thai, Chinese, English Pubs and all about the restaurant they have which was very helpful. Even though a fair few must...

nollie99 21.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of The White Hart, Lincoln

White Hart Hotel 3 ***

Advantages: Close to town, great service, lovely food, secure parking
Disadvantages: Expensive drinks

...Whitehart Hotel - Salisbury Rating = 3 Star *** I have chosen to write a review on this Hotel as in the area I live in it has quite a good reputation. I have stayed in the Hotel a few times and have held a Birthday Party here for my mothers 60th. I shall give you my personal experience with some relevant hotel facts and history. ***Hotels Location** Rail - The nearest mainline station to The White Hart Hotel is Salisbury Station, approximately 15 minutes' walk or a short taxi journey away Air - The nearest airport to The White Hart Hotel is Southampton International Airport, approximately 27 miles away The White Hart Hotel is based on St Johns Street in the City of Salisbury. It is an elegant Georgian building in the heart of Salisbury and opposite the beautiful and historic Salisbury Cathedral. It is named the White hart...

HotBlonde 22.10.2007 (19.10.2007) · Read review
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Beth Hart - she's more than just a screaming tirade of songs

Advantages: Extremely distinctive vocals, even unforgettable; some quality tracks
Disadvantages: 2nd half of the album tails off a bit in some respects

...CD Review: ?Screamin' For My Supper? ? Beth Hart (1999) Beth Hart? Isn?t she a little more rockier than your usual fare? Well, yes, she is ? regular readers of my reviews will have by now detected that I?m fond of Americana, roots, alt-blues, alt-country and alt-folk female singer-songwriters, with the odd shot of electronica thrown in for good measure, but I?ve also been known to supplement this diet quite often with hefty slices of out and out rock, especially when they come complete with an absolutely killer of a voice ? just like Beth Hart?s whiskeyed-tones. Tell the truth, though, I wasn?t entirely sure I?d go for this album as much as I did ? it initially sounded too much like ?rock? for my tastes. However, dipping in a track at a time recently, I?ve come to love it ? and now wonder why I ever doubted Beth?s talents...

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Review of Screamin' For My Supper - Beth Hart

Bret Hart - The Best There Ever Will Be!

Advantages: plenty of quality matches, Bret Hart
Disadvantages: I hate recalling the Montreal Screwjob

...About Bret Hart -Full name is Bret Sergeant Hart -born July 2, 1957 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada -Billed height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) -Billed weight 106.3 kg (234 lb) -Resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada -5 Time WWE Champion -2 Time WCW Champion -2 Time Intercontinental Champion -4 Time United States Heavyweight Champion -2 Time WWF World Tag Team Champion with Jim Neidhart -1 Time WCW World Tag Team Champion with Bill Goldberg -1 Time King of the Ring winner (1993) -Co-winner of 1994 Royal rumble with Lex Luger -Wrote a weekly column for the Calgary Sun from June 1991 until October 2004 -Co-wrote an illustrated autobiography with Perry Lefko in 2000 entitled "Hitman" - Wrote a second autobiography in 2007entitled "Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling" -Married to Julie Smadu-Hart -Divorced her in 1998...

TheChosen1 08.11.2008 · Read review
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John the Entertaining

Advantages: Very emotional writing
Disadvantages: Quite slow paced

...Up until now, I'd only ever heard of ''John the Revelator'' as a song. Judging from the several mentions of the song in the story and given that author Peter Murphy works in the music press, I suspect that's where the title of this novel came from as well. How much I enjoy the song depends on which version of it I hear, but with no such concerns with the book, I was able to enjoy it fully without worrying if someone had done a better version elsewhere that I was missing out on. John Devine is a teenager stuck in a small Irish town with a single mother, no real friends and a rather worrying fascination for bodily parasites, mostly intestinal worms. His only human contact is with his mother Lily, Mrs Nagle, an elderly neighbour and Harry Farrell, a local jack-of-all-trades. His only break from the house and from school is Sunday Mass. Not...

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Review of John the Revelator - Peter Murphy

Marble Hart Ltd House signs Stunning!

Advantages: Brilliant service, quick to deliver, very helpful.
Disadvantages: having to purchase fixings seperately

...Searching.... Having just completed building our new house I wanted a sign that would look the part, so I set about looking on the internet, and in the garden centres to try and find something that would be fitting. The Company. I ended up on good old E-bay searching one evening and found a company called Marble Hart, they had a massive 6700 100% feedbacks so I thought that they must be ok to deal with and started my search. The Company are based in Nottingham, They have a website www.marblehart.com Price Price was the most important thing, as I could not afford to spend lots of money, but on the other hand I wanted something stunning for my pennies, and of good quality. I also wanted a big sign that could be seen from the road, but did not look tacky! I did not want wood, or plastic I wanted something of quality, well I found...

snapdogs 14.07.2009 (20.07.2009) · Read review
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John Lewis

Advantages: Great range of services
Disadvantages: None

...John Lewis is a department store with 29 shops around the UK. They offer a wide range of high quality goods in departments such as: gifts, lighting, pictures, china and glass, linens, haberdashery, furnishing and fabrics, womenswear, lingerie, beauty, nursery, menswear, audio, toys and kitches/kitchenwear. Within the store they stock not only their own range of goods but also other branded names such as, Jigsaw, Joules, Levi and Warehouse in clothing, Bobbi Brown, Clarins and Clinique in the beauty section and Bose, Apple and Canon in electricals. As you can acertain they sell a wide range of products from knitting needles and wool to high end audio systems. All items are of great quality and if anything falls below the standard you will expect they have a great returns and refund policy with a flexible 28 days. They will even return...

rachieb123 12.10.2009 · Read review
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