Stone throw away from frustration

Advantages: Better character description, multiple plots
Disadvantages: Too long!!! Lack of action and over compensated useless detail

...Just a quick not, this is my review for the first book. The Dragon Bone Chair Review - http://www.ciao.co.uk/TheDragonboneChairTadWilliamsReview5800093 If you read my review on 'The Dragonbone Chair', the first book of the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. I basically said it was more a history lesson and didn't really start to get interesting until after 200 pages of a 900 page paperback book, but, with that aside, the ending of the first book had Prince Joshua's castle, ravaged by demon hell armies and Simon retrieving the sword 'Thorn' and taking on a dragon, woken from his icy prison.... Now, surely with a closure like this for the first book, the second has to be even more action paced and outstanding... surely!!! The Story After Simon faces the legendary ice dragon, the blood from the dragon scalds his face...

Jonny5sk 26.01.2009 · Read review
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Don't Make A Date with tad Hamilton

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: it ends

...Synopsis Rosalee Futch is a small town girl who works at her local Piggly wiggly and a major crush on movie star, Tad Hamilton. Rosalee is also blissfully unaware that her manager at the store and friend , Pete is head over heels in love with her. Rosalee enters a national competion to win a date with her favorite star and wins. Story Rosalee lives in a town in West Virginia, she works at a store and hang out with best frineds and co-workers Pete and Cathy. They all enjoy the simple pleasures in life like going to the local bar and the cinema. Cathy and Rosalee particullarly like romance films especailly ones starring their favourite Hollywood hunk, Tad Hamilton. They believe him to be just like the the romantic leading men that he always plays. Over in Hollywood, work of latehas kind of dried up for Tad, he's been papped driving...

hollywoodmum 06.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Win A Date With Tad Hamilton (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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Review of dvds365.com

Learn and live with baby tad

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...My eighteen-month daughter loved Christmas this year. Not just because for the first time she was becoming aware of the food, the fairy lights, and the fact that those brightly wrapped parcels under the tree were things for her. Her favourite present this year was Leapfrogs Baby Tad, another interactive educational gem from a company that specialises in these kinds of toys. Baby tad is a cuddly green frog in a banana yellow romper suit with a wide smile, bright eyes, and a selection of pressable buttons on his tummy, cheeks, arms and legs. It's just the right size for my daughter to be able to pick him up, hug him, and carry him around, and he costs around 19.99 from most decent toyshops. This toy is recommended for children over six months, but is definitely just right for children of around a year upwards when they start to...

Thehonesttruth 06.01.2005 · Read review
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Review of LeapFrog Baby Tad

* Philosopher Stone *

Advantages: Good Family Film
Disadvantages: Over-Acting , Parts Missing

...Harry Potter and The Philosopher Stone (HPATFS) is based on the book with the same title by J K Rowling. The film is taken from a series of books/films. HPATFS was directed by Chris Columbus and released on 16th November 2001. HPATFS stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter. Running time of the movie is 147 minutes. Harry Potter is an orphan. He lives with his rich aunt and uncle and cousin Dudley ; they are horrible to him. On Harry's eleventh birthday , he receives a letter telling him that he has been accepted at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. What will happen to Harry when he attends Hogwarts ? Why Is Harry in more danger than any of the other students ? Watch Harry Potter and The Philosopher Stone to find out! I had heard of Harry Potter but had not read any of the books , but when a friend recommended I read them...

xdonzx 19.10.2008 · Read review
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Evie's Baby Tad.

Advantages: A delight to babies, Colourful, Cute, Plays songs.
Disadvantages: Can't wash baby Tad.

...Baby Tad is a very colourful soft teddy frog which is bright green with a yellow t-shirt on and over that a bright orange romper suit. Baby tad has big white, black and green eyes with a big smile, very friendly looking. On the front of baby Tad you will see a very large white square which inside you will find 6 different shapes and colours. A yellow Star. A Red love-heart. A Blue square A Green Circle An orange triangle A Purple half moon. Everytime your baby presses one of these shapes, baby Tad will tell your baby the name of the shape and also the colour. For eg.. your baby presses the yellow star, the yellow star will light up and baby Tad will say "this is the yellow star" Baby Tad also has a moon button on one of his hands (night time button) and a sun on the other (day time button) If you press the sun hand you...

Hollie25 14.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of LeapFrog Baby Tad

The weird standing stones at Callanish

Advantages: Free to visit, very unusual
Disadvantages: Remote location

...From an archaeological and historical point of view the standing stones at Callanish are of equal importance to Stonehenge. Yet whilst the latter recently received over 36,000 visitors in a single day for the summer solstice (21st June 2009) Callanish receives only a few thousand visitors every year. This is due entirely to Callanish's location on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, which is just about as remote as you can get within the British Isles. I have always known about the existence of the standing stones at Callanish but only took a real interest in them earlier this year when I was planning my visit. I have seen Stonehenge hundreds of times, my brother used to live in the next village, and even now it never fails to turn my head, but they have become far too commercial for my liking in recent years. The sheer remoteness...

micksheff 22.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Callanish Stones (Scotland)

Meet the stone family

Advantages: Easy to watch and an array of well known actors
Disadvantages: It isn't the most interesting film you'll ever watch

...I bought the family stone for one reason only and that was because the cast was a mix of well known faces! I know I should look for more than this but, being a Sex and the City fan I am always keen to watch anything with Sarah Jessica Parker in! Along with a variety of others who I have seen in other films and enjoyed then it was surely to be a winner wasn't it? Released in 2005 the film was written and directed by Thomas Bezucha. The story: The stone family are very close knit and celebrate Christmas together every year. When the favourite son, Everett, decides to bring his girlfriend Meredith with him to meet his family it doesn't quite go to plan! He has plans to ask his mother for his grandmother's ring to propose to Meredith but, his family pretty much take an instant dislike to her and find Meredith to be too uptight...

frankiecesca 10.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Family Stone

Howling Stones.

Advantages: GREAT READ
Disadvantages: NOTHING !!!

...Howling Stones. I am a huge Alan dean Foster fan and here is one of his books from his Commonwealth series. You are transported to the lush tropical world of Senisran ( a bit like the Maldives but over the whole planet ) where the islands are all paradises and the seas are vivid greens and blues. The two main characters to this story are Pulickel and Fawn who have been tasked with the job of getting the natives of this world to sign a treaty with the commonwealth. The natives however are unconcerned with the treaty and seem naively unaware of the protection a treaty with the commonwealth could provide from other more malevolent and untrustworthy species who also live in and around the universes. chief among these are the Ann, an insectoid species equal and on par with the commonwealth but a very agressive species...

Maximus-Qualitus 10.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Howling Stones - Alan Dean Foster

Stone Me!

Advantages: Pop music with a soul edge, which makes a nice change
Disadvantages: Too many ballads

...It's an oft repeated story. An attractive blonde teenager with a great voice is discovered singing on a talent show. She is handed a record deal and releases an album full of songs she hasn't had a hand in writing. We've heard this one so many times before. Yawn, yawn, and yawn. But as she herself sings on "Super Duper Love", "wait a minute, wait a minute". This is not the story of some bubblegum pop act, discovered by Simon Cowell or Stock, Aitken and Waterman, performing the same tired style of music for the same audiences and destined to vanish before they've reached their twenties. The only comparison that can be drawn between Joss Stone and the likes of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Billie Piper is that they all have blonde hair. You may, at first glance, think that Joss Stone is going to be like one of those acts...

Soho_Black 09.12.2005 · Read review
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