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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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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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Does this mean I do not exist

Advantages: Fantastically written
Disadvantages: May upset some people

...Princess is a real-life-story unlike any that I have ever read before. From the moment I opened the cover I was hooked. From start to finish the book is a testimony to a woman of indomitable spirit and great courage and Jean Sasson truly captures the flavour and reality of life as 'Sultana' the Saudi Princess. 'Sultana's' birth nor death will ever be recorded, for she is a woman. A woman who lives in a society where only men have worth. 'Sultana' lives her life like a prisoner is a gilded cage, she has unlimited funds at her disposal yet she lacks the one thing she desires the most. Freedom. Wherever she is she is totally at the mercy of the men in her life... her father, her brother, her husband. "If no-one knows of my existence, does that mean I do not exist" For this reason 'Sultana', despite the high level of risk has...

MI9to5 28.08.2008 · Read review
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The Princess Bride?

Advantages: Eye Opening
Disadvantages: Shocking

...Princess, by Jean Sasson, is the biographical and often disturbing account of one woman's life in a relatively modern Saudi Arabia; which still believes its women are inferior to its menfolk. The author, Jean Sasson, spent over ten years living and working in Riyadh and was incensed at the inequality of women within the country, and the power that men hold, and it was during this time that she met Princess Sultana. The Princess, the youngest in a family of eleven surviving children, including only one boy, begged Sasson to write her biography, based on her diaries even from childhood. Sasson was reluctant to write this biography at first; and it was not until after the Kuwait invasion in 1990 and Sasson's visit back to SA the following year, that she felt moved enough to bringing this story to the forefront of westerner's minds...

helencbradshaw 21.06.2005 · Read review
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Invisible Chains

Advantages: Insight into a different world
Disadvantages: Makes you sad and angry

...I guess the majority of women wonder what it is like for the women behind the veils. You know what it is like, walking down the street and then suddenly you see half a dozen females walking towards you and sometimes looking pretty scary as they are dressed from top to toe in dark, heavy clothing with veils covering their faces. Often I have thought that they must be pretty stupid to let men and religion dictate to them in such a fashion. After all, it must be pretty unbearable to wear this clothing especially on hot summer days and I have always thought that their pretty faces are locked away behind the veils. Throughout my years I have heard bits and pieces about these veiled women but didn?t really give them much more thought until I read a review by Teacherofhooch (Linda) on the book called Princess by Jean Sasson. I was so...

Wearsidelass 16.08.2004 · Read review
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A fly on the wall

Advantages: Learning about other societies.
Disadvantages: none

...I really enjoy reading books about different cultures and life styles. So when I saw the book -Princess in Waterstones book shop for £6.99 I decided to buy it the following week as I had just purchased two other books. However, as luck would have it, browsing in my local Oxfam shop I purchased it for 99p. Introduction The book is based on a true story of a Princess of the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia. Jean P. Sasson has written the book for Princess Sultana (a fictitious name). Woman in Saudi Arabia do not have a voice, Sultana would not have been able to write a book about her life without severe consequences to her and her family. The book is set in the 1970?s to the 1990?s. The story begins by introducing the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia. There is a family tree in the front of the book and a selection of maps...

teacherofhooch 18.07.2004 · Read review
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Obscene wealth

Advantages: Insight into a pampered life
Disadvantages: You could get sick of reading about the obscene wealth

...Having read Princess and Princess Sultana?s Daughters, I just had to finish the true life trilogy and buy Desert Royal by Jean Sasson. It can be quite confusing when purchasing this book because there is another title by Jean Sasson called Princess Sultana?s Circle which is, as I understand it, the American version of Desert Royal (or it could be vice versa!). So, Desert Royal continues the story of the life of Princess Sultana and her family ? her husband Kareem and her two daughters Maha and Amani. As with the first two books, the author recounts the lifestyle of the fabulously wealthy royal Saudis which is all due to the exploration of oil in Saudi Arabia. When I first read Princess I was genuinely sympathetic towards Sultana but, after reading the trilogy, I do believe that she is just another pampered princess looking...

Wearsidelass 22.10.2004 · Read review
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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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Opens Your Eyes

Advantages: True, powerful, unable to put down.
Disadvantages: Harsh realities of how far behind some parts of the world still are!!

...understanding the issues women are still facing in the world. Jean Sasson an American author spent many years living in Saudi Arabia - this is how she formed a friendship with the princess whose story she is sharing. Names have been changed and the story although true is in Jean's words due to the serious punishment the Princess would face should it be known she leaked this information. The story is based from the 1970's to the 90's but is still very much a true reflection on what STILL goes on! This story moved me and although it was an emotional read I would recommend this to anyone with an ounce of compassion - the risks taken to tell this true story are vast and I believe it has been told so that people (us) can help drive a change....

Nads82 16.07.2007 · Read review
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Life behind the veil...

Advantages: Gripping, funny at times
Disadvantages: sad and shocking at times.

...This book was first recommended to me 6 years ago, whilst I was studying for my GCSE's. There are few books that I can read time and time again, but this is most definitely one of them, having just finished it for what must be the fifth time! Princess Sultana is a member of the large Saudi Arabian royal family. On the surface it appears she has everything that a teenage girl could wish for, expensive designer clothes, jewels and people to run around after her, getting her whatever she needs. She can have anything that money can buy, but the story of Sultana teaches us that money can't buy happiness. Sultana's story is told through the author, Jean Sasson. As a Saudi Arabian female, Sultana does not have the right of freedom of speech like we do here in the west, and so can not tell her story herself as if her identity was revealed...

lbr102 15.08.2005 · Read review
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