Top Gear

Advantages: Great entertainment
Disadvantages: None!

...Men of the world unite ? this is Top Gear. The ultimate car show. Forget the charade that is Fifth Gear over on Channel 5. BBC Two?s beloved Top Gear is the pinnacle of motoring shows. Made by the Beeb and hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, this hourly show has been made for years now ? orginally it was more of a basic motoring review show with the likes of Clarkson and Tiff Needell, but it was completely revamped in 2002 and brought in May and Hammond to not only review brand new cars ? often sporty ones or ridiculous super cars ? but to task part in tasks to produce entertainment. The show isn?t religiously broken down into section but there are various parts of the show which occur each week. There?s always a ?Star in a Reasonably Priced Car? who will try a lap around the Top Gear track in a Chevrolet...

carl.mcqueen 29.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Top Gear

Top of the class

Advantages: Fun, easy to pick up, Multiplayer
Disadvantages: a lil dated

...is still fun, extremely playable, and probably better than it's follow ups. What I've played of Top spin 3 has made it look like the series went backwards in playability, which may just be the fact it's more complex, or it may be that the games have reversed in quality. The simple controls made the game special, with the face buttons playing different types of shots and the shoulder buttons doing riskier shots (power serves, power shots, drop shots), the lift stick moving the player. See simple, in the newer one it's how long you hold the button and the timing is the key part not the shot selection as such. The sounds on the game...I'll admit are totally unmemorable as I can't recall what any of them are apart from the ?twhack? of a shot, and the graphics are relatively out dated, though you can still tell that Pistol Pete, is...

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Review of Top Spin (Xbox)

The Long Goodbye

Advantages: (+) interesting story, quite different (+) suprises, twists and turns! (+) hard to put down
Disadvantages: (-) A little more description possibly needed though not essential!

.... BRIEF INTRODUCTION The Long Goodbye is a novel first published in 1953 and was based around Chandler's famous detective Philip Marlowe. The book contains many autobiographical elements that relate to the author's own life. It has been ranked as one of Chandler's best works. The Long Goodbye was given the Edgar Award for Best Novel two years later in 1955. The novel begins outside a club called The Dancers. Marlowe meets Terry Lennox outside the club; he is a drunk and has many scars on his face. The two men become friends over the next few months, though the friendship is an 'uncomfortable' one. However, late one night, Lennox turns up at Marlowe's home asking for a ride to the airport; Marlowe agrees as long as he doesn't know why his friend his running away. As he returns to Los Angeles soon after, Marlowe is arrested...

vcarina88x 11.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler

The Long Good Friday

Advantages: Bob Hoskins
Disadvantages: Story

...Prior to watching The Long Good Friday, I thought people were actually taking the piss when they said Bob Hoskins played a gangster in one of the most respectable British crime films ever made. "Not Bob Hoskins who played the overweight plumber Mario in the Super Mario Bros. movie?" I said. Apparently so. Urgh. Surprisingly, the once fat, balding, video game protagonist is really quite impressive in his earlier work here. He plays Harold Shand, a notorious London businessman of the criminal underworld, who aspires to go straight in the late-1970s by redeveloping the old docklands property as a venue for the 1988 Olympic Games. He's an aggressive character, but looks after his crew; his speeches about the country's membership of the European Union are fuelled with intelligence and British pride; he is well groomed and has a beautiful...

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Review of The Long Good Friday (DVD)

* Top Brass . .

Advantages: Quick security, cheap, effective.
Disadvantages: Can be cut.

.... . You can get this type of lock almost anywhere, and pay peanuts, or shell out forty Pounds or more. Take your choice, and buy what you need. Basically, you really do get what you pay for. You can buy via mail order or go online, but brass is heavy, and some firms charge a lot more than the true postage price, also the same applies to the cost of packaging. Padlocks are sold as various types, and these are classed as "long shackle" ones, this means they will fit ordinary hasps & staples, as well as other difficult items like chains etc. My experience of using them is on my old Navy kitbag, These locks are difficult to break into, but not impossible. You normally unlock them with a key, which is more awkward than a mortise lock for instance. The locks are made for practical purposes, so are not designed to look pleasing to...

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Review of Long Shackle Brass Padlock

Top Programme

Advantages: good programme
Disadvantages: none

...Top Gear???? Top Gear is a motoring show that is broadcast n BBC2 on Sunday evenings at 8 o clock and repeated again during the week. There are three main presenters on the show and they are Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. Each of these presenters has their own quirkiness and their own very individual opinions relating to cars. The show lasts for an hour and you feel you are getting a lot packed into one show when watching it. There is usually a few new cars that are featured on the show and test driven by one or other of the presenters. There is also "The Stig" who is a racing driver dressed in all white driving suit with a blacked out visor on his helmet. The identity of "The Stig" is unknown and there is always a lot of speculation as to who really is in that driving suit (any ideas let me know...

newby2 07.12.2008 · Read review
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Top Class!!

Advantages: Brilliant features, full of useful tips etc, available on subscription
Disadvantages: Can be deemed expensive, the hundreds of ads!

...In my stocking last Christmas, I recieved a small envelope in which looked quite intrueging. Inside the envelope was a subscription to one of my favourite magazines "TOP SANTE.Top Sante is, in my eyes classed as a "Special Magazine" and so I was pleased to recieve this gift as it meant I wouldn't have to splash out every month. The name Top Sante, comes from the french word "health". This indicates before you even read the magazine, that the contents will mainly be health related. My mum has been buying these magazines for 4 or 5 years and had saved up most of them. So you can imagine my delight when I came across a huge pile of them in one of my mum's drawers! Top Sante is a magazine which comes out monthy, normally on the 1st or 2nd day of the month. The magazine contains roughly around 140 pages, and each page is jam-packed full...

SweetTooth93 11.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Top Sante

Long Tall Janie

Advantages: Excellent selection, great sizes, nice staff
Disadvantages: Prices

...every bit of clothing is that size. Since it is suitable for all women size 10 to 20 that over 5 foot 8 that is not a very big market. However if you yourself do fit into that category then this really is the shop for you. Leg lengths are 32' 34' and 36' so very handy if you have long legs. Tops are longer but to vary from top to top. An excellent selection of well fitted sizes. Changing Rooms I had to mention this. They were excellent. In front of you is a big, very tall mirror. The room is quite wide and has lots of room and hooks to hang on the clothes you are trying on. The lighting is very good and 'honest!' It is a curtain close, and they are quite heavy so it would be difficult for anyone to have a quick peak in a hurry. Nice lay out of fitting rooms and was very pleased. The only thing they lacked was a chair or stool...

scotlandizdabest 31.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Long Tall Sally (Shop)

A Very Long Title

Advantages: A marvellous recreation of an idealised world, fantastic performances and a huge heart
Disadvantages: None

...Manech and Mathilde are childhood sweethearts separated by the First World War. When Mathilde hears that her fiancé is dead, she refuses to believe it and sets out to discover what happened to him. Along the way she learns that her lover was one of five men found guilty of cowardice and sent out to die in the crossfire in no-man?s land. But despite all the accounts she cannot reconcile herself to his death and searches for truth behind the stories. Visionary French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a unique way of looking at the world and has previously impressed with such thematically and literally dark sepia-toned films as ?Delicatessen? and ?The City of Lost Children?. He also introduced the world to the romantic whimsy of ?Amélie?, starring the elfin Audrey Tautou. In ?A Very Long Engagement? he marries dark and light to create...

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Review of A Very Long Engagement (DVD)

Top Gear review

Advantages: Very fun to watch, great chemistry, informative
Disadvantages: None

...they don't feature enough normal cars, but that's not what I watch this show for, why would you want to see a car you can see ten times a day when you go out? I watch the show to see Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Zondas, cars that have been made as good as they possibly can, cars that I would never normally see and that I will never own. The chemistry is superb; Clarkson is the outspoken one, James May is the more subdued member of the team, and Richard Hammond is the younger, trendier one. They each have a huge passion for cars, but that seems to be the only thing they agree on! They are frequently at loggerheads, and constantly take the mick out of each other, all in jest of course. They make this incarnation of Top Gear the best and the most fun to watch. Overall a very funny show that has been one of my favourite TV programs for a long...

Walter_Kovacs 01.03.2009 · Read review
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