Seth Macfarlane is a genious

Advantages: alot cheaper than buying individually
Disadvantages: not as asthetically pleasing

...appreciate the oldest episodes especially those of seasons 1 and 2. As family guy has progressed its humour has become alot more adult. series 1 and 2 are pretty much the same as how you would have seen them on television however series 3 has a couple of scenes included in it that you may not have seen on tv such as the episode "mr saturday knight" which has a few things considered "too offensive for television" although series 1, 2 and 3 have no special features on the actual diskes this thirteen disk extravogansa comes with a purple bonus 2 disk dvd which features deleted scene animatics, commentry of 12 episodes and interviews with Seth Macfarlane the creator of the series and voice talent for multiple characters. series 4 and 5 however have their own special features such as interveiws and deleted jokes. series 4 and 5 are more adult series...

thetrooper244 05.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Family Guy - Series 1 To 5 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

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...

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A Suitable Boy

Advantages: well written and interesting..
Disadvantages: lenghty passages that could have been trimmed down

...Born in 1952 in Calcutta, India, VIKRAM SETH was educated at Oxford, Stanford University and Nanjing University..He has travelled widely and lived in Britain,China and the USA.He now lives in Calcutta, India His first novel, THE GOLDEN GATE : A NOVEL IN VERSE(1986), describes the experiences of a group of friends living in California.. His second novel A SUITABLE BOY, at 1347 pages ,is one of the longest novels ever published in a single volume in the English language...It won the prestigious Booker's award for 1994... Set in the post-indpendance India in the early 1950's, it deals with the efforts of a widowed mother looking for a SUITABLE BOY for her daughter...The novel begins with a wedding and closes with a wedding...It is a very colorful novel with accounts of festivals,the exotic food and the rich and flashy lifestyles...

kiran8 31.07.2008 (01.08.2008) · Read review
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Review of A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

A String Quartet + Rekindled Love = An Equal Music

Advantages: The writing, the setting, the music
Disadvantages: The characters are not sow ell defined or likable

...I bought this book, An Equal Music by Vikram Seth, for the grand sum of one penny on the basis of a review written by Floon. I was enchanted by his description of the storyline and the author?s writing style. I was not disappointed. The author, Vikram Seth states, in an author?s note located on the last page of the book, that, ?Music to me is dearer even than speech?. To convey this, he focuses his novel on the world of music and its performance. The central character, Michael Holme, is the second violinist in a London-based string quartet. His life has settled somewhat into a rut. He plays his violin; teaches the violin; makes love to one of his students, Virginie; rings his father; all as a matter of routine. His comfortable lifestyle is suddenly disturbed by a series of events each connected and occurring in parallel...

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Review of An Equal Music - Vikram Seth

Touched At A Deeper Level

Advantages: Totally absorbing, touches the deepest emotions
Disadvantages: Uses musical jargon freely - may put off a few people

...the novel works on the subconscious mind, which regards it as ?real? and synthesises the emotions by way of response. The extent to which this works is a measure of the skill of the writer. And Vikram Seth is a writer of exceptional skill. ***** First Encounter ***** I first encountered An Equal Music when we visited my brother, who was treating Mrs Floon and me to a couple of concert tickets to hear the Lindsay String Quartet at Leamington Spa to celebrate my good lady?s birthday. One of the works played was the sublime String Quintet by Schubert (see my review halfway down page 2) and my brother later pulled out a copy of this book and said he thought the Quintet was mentioned in the novel. He thought I might enjoy reading it and passed it over to me. I took it home, more out of politeness if I?m honest: as a reader...

Floon 09.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of An Equal Music - Vikram Seth

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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Two lives or three?

Advantages: Extraordinarily moving and beautifully written
Disadvantages: Unbearably sad and at times frustrating.

...Vikram Seth is probably most famous as the author of "A Beautiful Boy" and "An Equal Music", but he has also written a travelogue, a novel in verse, and other poetry. His latest book is in yet another genre: a biography of his great-uncle and -aunt, Shanti Uncle and Aunty Henny - their names appear in the acrostic poem he writes as the dedication - two 'ordinary' people who lived through times that were quite out of the ordinary. What makes this biography far more intimate than the average, however, is the author's close relationship with his subjects. The book is also part autobiography, as Seth recounts his memories of time spent with his aunt and uncle during school holidays while he studied in England - in fact this takes up the first part of the book, as we are introduced to his aunt and uncle through the eyes of their great...

natalka57 02.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Two Lives - Vikram Seth

The new voice and face of folk music

Advantages: A distinct and aggressive folk album
Disadvantages: A few too many songs in a 12/8 time signature!

...Seth Lakeman was recently nominated for a Mercury Music Prize for this, his second solo release. Although he didn't win, I wouldn't have looked at this album if it wasn't for his breathtaking performance at the awards ceremony. The album cost just £200 to make - some of which went on buying curries as a "thank you" to his musician mates who played on the album - and carries an earthy, aggressive atmosphere throughout. Based on the folklore stories of his native Dartmoor the album is a meloncholic and brooding musical construction that, if I lived on Dartmoor, would keep me awake at night with fear. However, there are softer and more uplifting tracks finely placed throughout the 12 tracks on the album, and this means the album won't leave you hoping for a swift death. The syncopated clapping rhythms of the traditional song...

eddybennet 26.09.2005 · Read review
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Review of Kitty Jay - Seth Lakeman

FREE DVDS

Advantages: up to date dvds, four weeks free hire with 3 dvds at a time,
Disadvantages: see review

...My recent quest for FREE DVD hire I visited and many DVD web sites that offered a free trial. Now call me tight (no that wasn?t an invite), but I like bargains and freebies and am not ashamed to say so. My quest took me to enough sites to hire DVDs for about four months so far (with plenty to come too). My latest free DVD site also happens to be the best I have tried for several reasons (see rest of op); the site in question is Blockbuster.co.uk. Other sites that I have had free rentals from and then cancelled have all been similar, two weeks free trial with two DVD?s per time ? which in effect gives you about four free DVD?s. With Blockbuster?s things are different slightly ? which add a great deal of benefit to us the customer. Firstly, you get FOUR whole weeks free rental, which equates to at double the length of time most...

dabmim 18.06.2004 · Read review
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