Absolute O'Brien?

Advantages: If you take it as being jocular, it's quite amusing in places.
Disadvantages: Creepy to the upmost!

...Richard O'Brien; 'Absolute O'Brien' (1999) My fondness of Richard O'Brien stemmed from when I use to watch the Crystal Maze as a girl during the summer holidays. I always found his presenting style interesting, bringing in his own unique charisma and personality to each episode of the Channel 4 game show. Fast forward by ten years and I'm sat watching the Crystal Maze once again. Except for this time, I found Mr. O'Brien to be even more humorous than I remembered. Call me crazy but I never remembered him as being that witty or jocular. Perhaps it was just my age? So, when I found out that the man himself had had the guts to release a solo album, I was shocked but almost intrigued. One of my good friends joked that she would get it for me as a late birthday present. At least, I thought she was joking. A little over a month...

MizzMolko 29.12.2007 · Read review
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Dark City

Advantages: The film creates a fantastic vision that makes you want to explore its depths
Disadvantages: It's dark and foreboding which is its power yet its downfall

...Cast: Rufus Sewell as John Murdoch William Hurt as Inspector Frank Bumstead Kiefer Sutherland as Dr. Daniel Schreber Jennifer Connelly as Emma Murdoch/Anna Richard O'Brien as Mr. Hand Ian Richardson as Mr. Book Imagine an inescapable city that is forever in darkness. The population live their lives, play their roles, as at each midnight telekinetic aliens shape the city to set up experiments in a desperate search to find the human soul. Dr Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland) calls them 'The Strangers' and they are a race dying out. He was forced to erase his own memory and now he helps them in their experiments as an artist to slice personalities and histories like putting paint to canvas and then injects this colourful fluid into the subjects. At midnight, the humans fall asleep as the Strangers do their work, but one has just...

jbsabbath 30.05.2004 · Read review
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Sticky Toffee Covered Chocolate

Advantages: Tastes Delicious
Disadvantages: Watch Out It's Moreish

...it a try. The chocolate bar I ended up with was Lily O'Brien's Sticky Toffee Milk Chocolate bar. For those of you who have not heard of Lily O'Brien's chocolate before. It is a company which was founded in Ireland. I logged onto the website to research a little bit of history to discover that the company started in 1992 by Mary-Anne O'Brien who first made chocolate in her kitchen with the help of a wooden spoon and her little girl Lily who was chief stirrer and taster!!! The company subsequently being named after her. They have received numerous awards for their excellent range of products over the years and provide a huge range of mouth watering delicious chocolates and treats using the finest ingredients. I must admit that brown is not a packaging colour that I find myself particularly attracted to. I do have a sense of humour...

anniehiccups 28.05.2009 · Read review
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Love Certainly Happens in this book!

Advantages: Funny novel, witty writing, well explored relationships
Disadvantages: A bit of swearing but nothing major!

...I saw this book sitting on the trolley in my local library a couple of weeks ago waiting to go back onto the shelf, and the bright cover caught my eye. I picked it up and read the blurb on the back of the book, and it looked like a fun book which I might enjoy. I also felt a bit sick of reading the same old authors so I thought that this would make a nice change, so I checked it out the library and sat down and looked forward to reading it. As I said before, I had never heard of Sarah O'Brien but after a quick look on Amazon, it turned out she had actually written 3 books before. But I flicked to the front of the book to find out more about the author, and it turns out it isn't one author, it is two! Sarah O'Brien is a pseudonym of Helena Close and Trisha Rainsford, 2 best friends. Love Happens is their third novel they have written...

mummy2harry 01.10.2007 · Read review
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FREE DVDs

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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richard

Advantages: great read
Disadvantages: hard to understand if you are new to old english

...I have just read this in English for my literature coursework on shakespeare. Heres the beginning of my coursework. This will explain a lot to you. William Shakespeare wrote the play Richard III in 1591. Commonly known as a history play, although it can be thought of as belonging under each category of plays Shakespeare wrote: History, Problem, Tragedy and comedy. Historical as the main plot of the play is true, however some facts may be untrue as to fit the Tudor myth. Problem play, because Richard kill's everyone in his way, death and destruction linger in his path.Tragedy play, as Richard who the audience have secretly come to admire dies, and so do other characters such as the young princes. Comedy play as the play ends with a wedding which in these times was thought of as a comedy as there is happiness. The Tudors also saved...

nicky-andreyah 17.12.2008 · Read review
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1950's Ireland stunningly evoked

Advantages: Warm depiction of long gone Ireland
Disadvantages: A little too short

...It's hard to credit now but when this book was first published in the 1960's it was banned by the Catholic Church in Ireland, along with its predecessor The Country Girls. Why? In being honest about sex, and the shortcomings of convent education, it transgressed the rules and horrified the Establishment who wanted to see Ireland carry on as a cultural backwater steeped in reactionary notions of how women should live. O'Brien 's trag-comic story about Kate and her wily best friend Baba , fleeing village life for the fleshpots of Dublin, is both witty and true in its evocation of 1950's Ireland at a time when girls were supposed to stay pure until marriage. Neither of these two have any intention of doing so! The main focus is the "Girl With Green Eyes" ie Kate as she embarks on her first real...

bookaddict 08.07.2009 · Read review
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Morphy Richards Impressed me

Advantages: An economical iron from Morphy Rchards
Disadvantages: None

...Morphy Richards are well known and trustworthy manufacturers of electrical appliances and produce a wide choice of products. With Christmas fast approaching the company have many novel and inexpensive gift ideas displayed on their website. Of course all of the prices have been adjusted to reflect the recent reduction in VAT. So many times I have bought an electrical appliance only to find a few months down the line that I need to find spare parts or accessories and often this can be frustrating. But I have noticed that Morphy Richards have a search facility on their website for this and if you cannot find the part that you are searching for then you can contact their Customer Care Team via the website. Replacing my iron has been on my `To Do` list for some months now and I have only recently got around to doing it. Years...

Sarahjh1 13.03.2009 · Read review
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A great Morphy Richards Product

Advantages: Delicious bread without such a gaping hole in the bottom
Disadvantages: Ingredients bucket a bit stiff to manouver

...I have had my original Morphy Richards breadmaker for two years and it was still in good working order but when I saw a new model in Robert Dyas, I had to go and investigate. The new model on display was boasting a drop down paddle which meant no more gaping holes in your bread after you have removed it from the tin. That has to be a plus! The fact that the price had been reduced from £70 to just under £50 swayed my decision. My current which model could be passed onto a grateful family member. As I unpacked this very good looking silver machine, I found an instruction book, guarantee card (for two years) and the measuring cup and spoons. The instruction book is very clear and is full of interesting recipes which include cake and jam. There are a list of baking cycle times and you can make a fast loaf in 1 hour should you wish...

Rosieoli 21.01.2008 · Read review
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