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Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
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...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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A Prayer For Owen Meany

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...Nope, no silly op titles. I couldn't do that to my all-time favourite book; and it took me twenty one years to find an all-time favourite. It was, of course, inevitable, that with a user name like ruthcole (A Widow For One Year), I would write an op about an Irving book. Here it is. The best place to start would probably be with the plot. Since this is a book that starts in the fifties and moves through to the Reagan administration, via Vietnam, it's probably best to just give you the kind of information you get in the blurb. Owen Meany is the best friend of Johnny Wheelwright. When they are both 11 years old, Owen hits a baseball in a Little League game that kills Johnny's mother. Owen is convinced: GOD HAS TAKEN MY HANDS, I AM GOD'S INSTRUMENT. Why the capitals? I'll explain in a minute. The story begins with Johnny...

ruth_cole 09.08.2002 (12.08.2002) · Read review
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THERES ONLY ONE MICHAEL OWEN

Advantages: Explosive pace, Deadly finisher, Superb Proffesional, etc...
Disadvantages: None, unless you're an opposing defender...

...On the 14th December 1979 a star was born in Chester, England, that star being a certain Michael James Owen, the son of ex-Evertonian Terry Owen. From a very early age, it was obvious that Owen was going to make the grade as a professional footballer and he was duly snapped up by Liverpool Football Club and signed on as a Schoolboy. Owen went about breaking every goal-scoring record going whilst a youngster and made his breakthrough whilst starring in Liverpool?s 1996 FA Youth Cup winners. The next season he made his first team debut in a match against Wimbledon and surprise, surprise he scored his first league goal, at the tender age of 17. From that day, both he (Owen) and Liverpool have never looked back. He became England?s youngest representative of the 20th century and also became England?s youngest ever goal-scorer in...

brianlfc 09.06.2002 (10.06.2002) · 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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Charlie Wilson's Fight for Afghanistan

Advantages: Great Acting, excellent story
Disadvantages: Some sad scenes of the Afghan suffering

...Charlie Wilson's War is a film which I had been undecided about for a few weeks so I finally took the plunge and bought it. I think the deciding factor was that it stared Tom Hanks and Julie Roberts, both of which I like. The film features Charlie Wilson, played by Tom Hanks who is a party loving Congress man. He is good friends with Joanne who is a rich Socialite, played by Julia Roberts. Joanne manages to talk Charlie into looking at the troubles in Afghanistan where they are being invaded by the Russians. Charlie goes and sees the troubles first hand and is shocked at what he finds. He does agree to help Joanne by getting the weapons and ammunition which they need to defend their country. To do this Charlie is helped by a CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos and soon finds he needs to persuade the Congress to give them large amounts of money...

sewbizzie 02.02.2009 · Read review
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Charlie Wilson's War - Sheer Brilliance

Advantages: Engrossing, clever, an eye-opener.
Disadvantages: none

...Director: Mike Nichols Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin Book: George Crile Genre: Biography - Drama Country: USA Certification: 15+ Language: English Released: 5th May, 2008 (DVD) MAIN CAST: Tom Hanks (Charlie Wilson) Amy Adams (Bonnie Bach) Julia Roberts (Joanne Herring) Philip Seymour Hoffman (Gust Avrakotos) In the early 1980's, the USA was smack in the middle of a cold war with Russia. While The USA was keeping a close watch on Russia's growing army and tensions were at there highest, the Russians invaded Afghanistan in an attempt to enrich themselves with the country's crude oil. Because Afghanistan did not have an acting army, it was down to the people to defend themselves against the Russians... not an easy task considering that they didn't have the necessary weapons to fight. With the Russians...

GoFigure 27.05.2008 · Read review
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Twin Tales by Jacqueline Wilson

Advantages: Great reading for all the family of all ages
Disadvantages: NA

...and suddenly Connie can swim like a mermaid. Jacqueline Wilson started working as a publisher and then went on to work as a journalist for D.C Thomson in Scotland where she heard and found JACKIE magazine. She has wrote THE STORY OF TRAY BAKER, THE SUITCASE KID, DOUBLE ACT, BAD GIRLS, THE DARE GAME, VICKY ANGEL, THE ILLUSTRATED MUM, DUSTBIN BABY, SECRETS, THE WORRY EBSITE, LOLA ROSE, MIDNIGHT, BEST FRIENDS, THE DIAMOUND GIRLS and CLEAN BREAK. Jacqueline has won several awards including the smarties prize,the sheffield childrens book award and the childrens book award. In 2002 Jacqueline was awarded an OBE for services to literacy, 2004 it was announced by the PLR that she was now the most borrowed author from public libraries in the UK, tipping off Catherine Cookson off the top spot after she was therefor 17 years. May 2005 Wilson was announced as...

Mazzy3 23.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Twin Tales - Jacqueline Wilson

Wilson tries 'gothic' but loses the element of surprise

Advantages: realistic, mildly enjoyable
Disadvantages: predictable, dramatic event too sudden and unresolved

...This is the first Jacqueline Wilson book I have tried reading (as part of shadowing the ?Berkshire Book Award? and I have to admit that it was better than I?d anticipated. Wilson is famous for writing amazingly popular stories for young children, around 10-13, and has been honoured with many of the UK?s top awards for children?s books. She was also the Children?s Laureate for 2005-7 and was awarded an OBE in 2002. Obviously I was aware of her popularity, but I was convinced that her books were over-hyped, dull and simplistic. (These are the same reasons why I have never read any of the Harry Potter books.) ?My Sister Jodie? tells the story of two very different sisters: Pearl is shy/reserved and her sister Jodie is much more confident with a flair for getting in to trouble. The story is told from Pearl?s perspective, but Jodie...

brokenangelkisses 28.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of My Sister Jodie - Jacqueline Wilson

I think Laura Wilson is my new best friend

Advantages: A completely absorbing read
Disadvantages: None

...If you enjoy a good psychological crime novel that is written, well I am sure that, like me, you will really enjoy this book - My Best Friend by Laura Wilson. This is the third book written by Ms Wilson, and while crime novels aren't my favourite genre, I found this a remarkably well-written and absorbing book. This book is very unusual in the fact that it has three first person narrators as well diary entries from over fifty years ago and also includes excerpts from children's books. This sounds on first hearing that the book will be messy and hard to follow but Laura Wilson manages to integrate all these elements together into a dark, heart-rending story of a dysfunctional British family over a period of fifty years. The book takes place during and after World War Two and features two sisters, one a children's author...

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Mari Wilson -The Platinum Collection

Advantages: First time on cd for many tracks
Disadvantages: pastiche agenda limits wider appeal

...Slightly more worthy than her solitary hit "Just What i Always Wanted "suggests,provided its approached and enjoyed as pure pastiche and indulgent nostalgic enjoyment,even in 1982 Mari Wilson was portrayed as nostalgic ,her 15 minuteds of fame arriving at the tail end of a post punk mod revival,the whole concept relied on and evoked an age that never quite was,stylish lyrics ,glamorous outfits and a showband mentality that recalled the glory days of The Supremes ,Lulu and Sandie Shaw all put together on a shoestring budget inSouth London at the turn of the eighties initially as a very appealing live draw along the lines of Paul Youngs Q-Tips with a little less sweat. The aforementioned hit single is fairly representative of the rest of this fantastically priced collection and its a minor mystery how she didnt achieve at least half...

terriano 26.04.2008 · Read review
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