Title: Laugh out loud Review: This book is typical Bill Bryson, ie one very funny book. One of the downsides of reading Bryson in public is people look at your strangely when you break out laughing. Bryson, an Iowan by birth but currently living in England, drives around the USA through 38 states commenting on life in mostly small towns. He has a lot of good things ,and not so good things to say about us. Not a very deep read, but definitely an enjoyable one.And informative, too. For instance I didn't know that the Mennonites in Lancaster, PA are named after a well known brand of speed-stick deodorant Is the review positive or negative?
Positive

Title: Bravo! The feminist Juvenal returns! Review: Greer returns to tell the 'muddle crass' what a load of tripe and codswallop feminism has become in the nineties. Sure, its full of hyperbole, and short on coolly considered politically-correct solutions. She gives women's 'progress' the lie in stunning rhetorical form. She is a feminist Swift, or perhaps Wyndham Lewis(!!) quaranteed to piss off conventional wisdom of any ilk. Is the review positive or negative?
Positive

Title: The Italian Dog , er Job Review: I just saw the new 'The Italian Job'. I never walk out on movies, but, man, this one tempted me. After about 15 mins I asked my wife was she enjoying it, and she replied that she was. She doesn't often surprise me but this time she did.The only good things about this movie were the minis, and the villains (I love a well-played cad). On the downside, nearly every frame contained an advertisement for some product ...headsets, TV's, cars, stereos and computers (the brand name sticker on laptops cannot usually be read upside down!). The dialogue was rubbish, the characters were sterotypes, and the plot laughably predictable. I could not sympathise with any of the characters.This movie has none of the wit and charm of the original. I would give it 1 1/2 stars if I could, so 2 is being generous. ... Is the review positive or negative?
