Not only for the wise

Advantages: A joyful celebreation of life
Disadvantages: It ends...

...Wise Children, like all Angela Carter's novels, is very, very, very hard to quantify. The novel itself is a minefield of clichés, stock characters and contrived situations waiting to happen. My point being: this never happens. Ever. Not at all. This does not seem possible. Contextualisation: knowing the name and not much else I picked up the novel second hand, having read the first few pages in the shop. I was enjoying it but there was the niggling thought in the back of my mind: this book could get annoying. But I knew it would take 30 or forty pages to find out and so what was there to lose. What indeed? I bought it. Wise Children, on the surface, is the tale of Dora and Nora Chance (known in their 'glory days' of music hall / vaudeville as the Lucky Chances), bastard offspring of Thespian Sir Melchior Hazard, one...

No_name 19.10.2005 · Read review
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Warranty Wise - no problems

Advantages: Good tailored policy
Disadvantages: None

...I have had a number of warranties for used cars and this firm are very good. Like all insurance it is important to take a policy which has terms suitable for you. What I liked about this policy is that you can tailor it to your own needs. The most important things about car policies are the wear and tear, excess and labour rate. Most policies exclude wear and tear. Get one that for a small premium ignores wear and tear. Otherwise most components on an older car won't be covered. Get one with a labour rate that is realistic. Avoid large excesses otherwise you will never claim. Warranty Wise were quick with their payment. Okay like most you had to give them every document that they wanted but that is within the terms. Don't like the terms then don't accept. I had a photochromatic dipping rear mirror on my M3 that failed. No problem...

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Wise children read this book (run out of puns)

Advantages: Funny, scandalous, happy ending
Disadvantages: Structure leaves a lot to be desired - you might get lost

...I bought this book '3 for £1' from a charity shop having only vaguely heard of Angela Carter, but when faced with a bunch of books I have no idea how to choose from, I usually go for the prettiest cover, or the author with the nicest name. In this case, having found 2 books, and faced with a shelf of unknown authors, I went with the one who shared a name with my mother. Awh. The Author Wise Children was Angela Carter's last novel before she died of cancer, aged 51. It is full of references to the works of Shakespeare that surrounded her childhood, introduced by her mother, and the Hollywood films her father took her to see. She was born in 1940 and during the war lived with her grandmother in Yorkshire who introduced her to the feminism that pervades many of her books. The Bloody Chamber, for example, is one of her...

sakura42 16.08.2006 · Read review
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Not yet a Wise Woman

Advantages: Smells great, really hydrating, smoothes skin.
Disadvantages: Expensive, heavy.

...As a consultant with The Body Shop At Home I get to try out lots of different products, well how can I tell people if I think a product is any god or not and talk about it with any certainty if I haven't?! Well that is my excuse anyway. As a consultant I have to keep my kit up together and try and make more sales by getting customers interested, a good way of doing this is by letting them try the product they are interested in for themselves. To enable customers to use some of the products I am now able to buy samples of a few products and so have. I purchased several of the different samples on offer after doing a large party. One of these samples was a pack of 20 Wise Woman Day Cream samples. I have tried the cleanser and eye creams which were in my kit when I first received it and I always show these at parties (unless the guests...

nursie_nursie 11.04.2008 · Read review
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Wise Children by Angela Carter

Advantages: A Colourful, vibrant, rich novel
Disadvantages: the author's lack of moral conduct

...Angela Carter's Wise Children is the life story of show businesses Chance Sisters. Dora Chance, twin sister of Nora, narrates throughout the story. She tells their colourful life tale upon the commencement of the twin's seventy- fifth birthdays. The story is set mainly in England. The twins spend a great deal of their lives based at their childhood home in Brixton, South London. I think Angela Chance has chosen this setting to exaggerate and highlight the twin's illegitimacy. The North and South divide of social London were very clear at the time of the books setting. The "Right side of the tracks is the North and the wrong side, the South. There is to be no overlapping of borders, as the sides are very definitely separated by the river. At the time of the twin's births, there was a huge stigma attached to being illegitimate...

BeckieWolf 27.08.2007 · Read review
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I have to use GroupWise

Advantages: user friendly, easy to use, desktop and web client
Disadvantages: may take much system memory

...I have known GroupWise for 2 months since my office does not allow to use Outlook(Which is the one I use at most time). GroupWise is a type of office software provided by Novell. It?s mainly used for email as well as calendar, instant messaging and documents management. It is cross-platform software, which can run on Windows, Linux and Netware. I?m using it in Windows XP for my work. GroupWise can be installed as desktop client or be accessed through GroupWise WebAccess. They both have user-friendly interface and provide pretty much same functions. As mentioned above, these functions include: Email: Apart from no alert for desktop client, the email function is generally fine. Messages can be written in plain text or HTML and can be encrypted. Emails can be organized by rules. The junk mail handling system is quite good and it...

rosycn1979 25.07.2007 · Read review
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Be Wise, GroupWise

Advantages: It is more than just an Email client. It is an electronic office.
Disadvantages: Somewhat obscure.

...GroupWise is Novell's Email (and more) Client. As an Email client it takes some getting used to. GroupWise really is a GroupEmail system - it is Office Software. For example, it takes just a few clicks to read whether the the person (in your post office) you you send the Email to has read your email. It takes a few clicks to turn the email you've recieved into a memo which will remind you of itself whenever you want. GroupWise is, because of its extra features, rather complex. However, its easy enough to use if you simply want to restrict yourself to the Email side of it. An other feature of GroupWise is its ability to library and archive documents. This is not something we do at (my work) because the documents it looks after become encoded GroupWise saves... but, I suppose, by not using this feature we're showing just how...

Manx 10.11.2000 · Read review
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Be Wise, GroupWise

Advantages: It is more than just an Email client. It is an electronic office.
Disadvantages: Somewhat obscure.

...GroupWise is Novell's Email (and more) Client. As an Email client it takes some getting used to. GroupWise really is a GroupEmail system - it is Office Software. For example, it takes just a few clicks to read whether the the person (in your post office) you you send the Email to has read your email. It takes a few clicks to turn the email you've recieved into a memo which will remind you of itself whenever you want. GroupWise is, because of its extra features, rather complex. However, its easy enough to use if you simply want to restrict yourself to the Email side of it. An other feature of GroupWise is its ability to library and archive documents. This is not something we do at (my work) because the documents it looks after become encoded GroupWise saves... but, I suppose, by not using this feature we're showing just how...

Manx 10.11.2000 · Read review
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Morecambe and Wise - I salute you

Advantages: Two hilarious entertainers
Disadvantages: There are none.

...Morecambe and Wise are, arguably, the greatest comedy double act of all time. The humour seems so innocent when you look back on it-but without a doubt I?d rate this humour over much of the humour today. It?s much more likely that I would switch on a Morecambe and Wise video and laugh my head off at Cliff Richard, Eric and Ernie dancing around like American soldiers on a battleship, than turn on Ali. G and laugh at him slipping on a banana skin. I consider it to be time to welcome shows like Morecambe and Wise, Only Fools and Horses and The Good Life back to BBC primetime. Before their BBC show, they started their careers in the variety theatres where they became extremely popular. They moved to radio where they also drew large audiences and then they were given a TV show called ?Running Wild? which was a disaster. Reviews given...

LBuSBu1 14.04.2003 (20.04.2003) · Read review
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Lived up to their promises

Advantages: Simple, no-nonsense comprehensive cover and a number of payment options.
Disadvantages: None

...I have owned a Vauxhall Vectra since new and being a high mileage driver (and it is not a fleet car) my manufacturer's warranty expired well before the vehicle was 3 years old. Because of the high mileage and the need to ensure that my vehicle was always roadworthy, I reviewed a number of warranty companies, including the manufacturer's extended warranty but the miles I cover meant that it was unsuitable, and sought views from a number colleagues and was 'warned off' some other companies who promised everything and then delivered very little. I eventually chose Warranty Wise (which is fronted by Quentin Wilson) because of the comprehensive cover offered and the promised 'no nonsense' approach to the warranty - if the component breaks, or even causes something else to break, you are covered. Although the standard policy covers all...

garswood1234 12.12.2009 · Read review
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