When all else fails - there's always Plan B!

Advantages: absorbing read
Disadvantages: none

...I have read most of Emily Barr's novels and each one is fresh and enjoyable and you think they can't get any better. However, having just read Plan B, they do get better and I was totally absorbed in this story from the moment I picked the book up! Emily Barr is such a good storyteller and she hooks you from the very start so that you don't want to stop reading. I found myself snatching odd moments in the day to pick this book up, and now that I've finished it I'm almost disappointed as I didn't want to stop reading. The main character in the book is Emma and over half of the story is told from her point of view and is written in the first person. At the beginning when we first meet Emma she is reluctantly moving to France to start a new life with her partner Matt and their two year old daughter Alice. They have bought a ramshackle...

kingfisher111 01.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Plan B - Emily Barr

Plan B

Advantages: some excellant songs
Disadvantages: lots of swearing

...Plan B - Who Needs Action When You Got Words Firstly this album is very very rude and the parental advisory sticker should be taken notice of. Some of the words, lines and innuendos in this album make the contents of many other 'explicit' albums seem fit for kids. However with that besides this album is very good and best of all its British. Plan B's lyrical ability, in my opinion, stand him out against not only other English rappers but also most of what comes over from the states. The music is also different and, again in my opinion, superior to what has been released recently. Much of the album's lyrics are from the point of view of inner city kids and the 'tough' lives that they live and sound like they are very heart felt, which shows with the emotion throughout. Also of note is the Plan B plays much of the music on his guitar...

brianroper316 27.08.2007 · Read review
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Better get your Plan C ready

Advantages: Not bad I suppose and quite close to my hotel
Disadvantages: Not the best tapas in town

...INTRODUCTION Now that I am back for a while working in the Netherlands, I thought I would have a stab at reviewing some of the restaurants, if for no other reason that it keeps me entertained. And so here we go with my debut restaurant review. I hadn't expected much from this restaurant I hadn't visited before; I'd been told beforehand it wasn't anything special. To complicate this even more, I was accompanied by a friend from Barcelona who naturally knows his calamari from his patatas bravas. It will be interesting to see what we thought between us. One nugget of wisdom my friend imparted on me is that PlanB, the restaurant name, is a very Spanish name for such a place. This is because according to him, in Spain tapas is seen as not really seen as something you would specifically go out to eat - it would be just a casual...

larsbaby 07.02.2008 · Read review
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Deck Protectors

Advantages: See Review
Disadvantages: See Review

...Ultra Pro Deck Protectors: As some of you will now know, I am a huge fan of the collectable card game, (CCG), Magic the Gathering, (MTG). Basically MTG is a game that requires you to build a ?deck? of 60 cards to play against other people?s decks. The cards can be very expensive but they are easily damaged by shuffling and of course the dreaded ?hand grease?. Once again though the great people at Ultra Pro have a product that is perfect for protecting your cards. Now you may think card sleeves are a simple creature; made of plastic and big enough to fit a card in, job done, but in reality it?s not quite that simple. Cheap deck protectors, (they cost about £1.00 for a hundred), are often slightly too big and become oddly baggy with use. This is a problem as it makes it hard to hold the cards and especially hard to shuffle them. Ultra...

donnabroom 01.09.2009 · Read review
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Samsung B3310 - but its pink!!

Advantages: Cheap, performs core functions well
Disadvantages: No data cable, location of memory card slot

...Introduction Whilst out shopping my wife suddenly decided that she needed a new phone as she wasn?t happy with her LG Cookie that she had only had for six months. As she is on a sim only contract, it meant that we would have to pay for a new phone for her. Previously she has always liked Samsung phones so when she saw the newly released B3310, she decided it was the one for her. Purchasing the phone We bought the phone in-store from the Carphone Warehouse for £49.95 but we also had to buy £10 airtime on top of this. If we had chosen not to buy the airtime then the phone would have cost £99.95 instead which seemed a bit strange but evidently all phone manufacturers do this. We had the choice of 2 colours, light blue or pink. Unsurprisingly my wife went for the pink phone which will pretty much ensure that I...

craggybuk 29.09.2009 · Read review
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You'll want to deck the producer after watching this

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Awful acting, awful writing

...Each time I think that films can't possibly get any worse, another one comes along that proves me wrong again, and Deck the Halls is one of those films. Synopsis Buddy is a man who's wandered through life never quite settling down, moving from job to job and town to town, dragging his young buxom wife and twin 15 year old daughters along with him. Steve lives in a nice quiet town, he's the local optician and everyone knows him, he's been in charge of the town?s winter festival for the last few years and is known as the 'Christmas man'. Steve is woken one night by the sound of a truck pulling up to the house across the road, the new neighbours are moving in, in the form of Buddy and his family. The next morning S catches Buddy just as he's trying to steal the paper off the doorstep, and whilst Steve and Buddy aren't sure...

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Review of Deck The Halls (DVD)

Deck The Halls- Total Rubbish

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Boring - bad acting - drags foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrr

...Fair', is so rigidly and meticulously planned that it becomes a chore. In an effort to be the town's 'Mister Christmas' the two men, whose ideas of Christmas are in opposition, undermine each other at every turn. 'Deck the Halls' is one of those holiday season movies that is spit out, with dozens of others, every year by movie studios hoping to make a quick and easy buck. I'll tell you, out of the dozens released every Christmas, only one or two are worthy of attention... this definitely isn't one of them. This movie is absolutely boring... in fact, it's more than boring... it's downright painful to watch, like a sore tooth, it just makes you want to hit your head against the wall until you pass out! The acting is absolute rubbish, and the storyline - I don't even want to go there - but I must! So here goes; detestable Buddy...

GoFigure 09.12.2007 · Read review
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enuff skateboard deck, tough enuff?

Advantages: good price, good pop, enuff is a cool brand
Disadvantages: not as durable and as well lasting as i had hoped

...this is not a bad deck at all its meets all the criteria of being a good skate board, good pop, cool graphic and a nice shape, but i found the way that enuff boards are made seem that they dont last quite as long as other brands. personally i dont really like enuff boards that much they feel too diffferent to what i am used to but im sure there are alot of people who would very much enjoy the enuff shape and alot of my freinds say this is true. i recommend this deck for people new to skateboarding or people on a tight budget, the price of enuff decks is definitly a plus. good up and coming brand tho id expect they will just get better and better....

millsyc 03.06.2009 · Read review
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Samsung PS50B451

Advantages: Brillaint TV
Disadvantages: Hard to get used to

...One of the TVs in my house has just been replaced, we was lucky enough to get a deal on the Samsung PS50b451 instead of it costing around the £700 asking price a friend of ours used her staff discount and along with some vouchers, the TV cost us around £350 which is brilliant for what it is. bit of a bargain actually. I thought I would review it to see if it is actually worth the £700 asking price to those who aren?t as lucky as us to have a friend who works in a shop that sells them. Why choose this one? The reason that we choose this particular TV is that we wanted one in the 50 inch size range to replace the old one, and when we had a look at the range available we found that this one was not only the cheapest for what it is, but also we found that this one was the better looking of the three we narrowed our choice down to...

amyloop 14.07.2009 · Read review
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An A for the B plan

Advantages: good tracks
Disadvantages: only 14 of them

...The Masterplan is a collection of B-sides that have accompanied Oasis?s brilliant collection of hit singles. The album contains fourteen songs of a good standard, and is well worth at least a listen to. Acquiesce is the single that never was. This is arguably one of the best B-side singles ever made, and it still puzzles critics as to why it was not released on an album, or even as a single. Underneath the Sky and Talk Tonight are both great songs, as are Half the World Away and Stay Young. The album has good variety in it, from the hand clapping ‘drum? in Talk Tonight, to the more energetic rhythm of Stay Young. Oasis are one of, if not the best band of the nineties, although have slightly lost their path recently, that is why it is god to listen to some of their stuff which not everybody has heard. Not a classic album, and there...

danradders 30.12.2000 · Read review
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