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[ "I'll just say right off the bat that this stickvac is not worth the price.", "The 2 main complaints are that it loses the charge much too quickly and it doesn't pick up well.", "Both of these are obviously very important (missing) features.", "You need the vac to stay charged long enough to use it and you need it to actually pick stuff up.", "This one seems to be very picky about what it wants to pick up and when.", "There is no sense of it because one minute it will pick up something a little bigger and won't pick up small stuff and the next time you use it, it will be the opposite.", "When using it in the kitchen, it didn't want to pick up pieces of grass that had been tracked in by the door.", "This was not huge clumps of grass, not wet grass, not stuck to the floor grass...", "just single little pieces of grass scattered on the floor, maybe an inch or two long, at most.", "It doesn't like to pick up pet hair off of hard floors either.", "After running the vac, you can still sweep up plenty hair/dust/dirt with the broom.", "Some cookie crumbs left by the kids were gone over several times and it still didn't want to pick everything up.", "Cat litter is iffy - sometimes it will pick it up, sometimes not, and regardless it will always spit some back out at you.", "No matter what you're vacuuming, it always seems to want to spit some back out at your feet.", "The dust cup is small, so even if it does pick up, it can't pick up much at a time.", "As a hand vac, it isn't much better at all.", "The opening at the end is pretty large and circular and it just doesn't do a very good job.", "On the brightside, it is very easy to put together.", "You just attach the handle with a screw.", "I did it with a butter knife in about 15 seconds.", "It is fairly slim and easy to store.", "The swivel head is nice to maneuver the vac around.", "But, all of these good things do not matter at all if the vac simply does not do what it is supposed to.", "For this price, I really expect something much better.", "The least it could do is work.", "I cannot recommend this stickvac.", "Sad to say, the even more expensive model 240A isn't much better either.", "I'd scratch both of these off the comparison list and look to other brands." ]

[ "This game is entertaining enough.", "However, it doesn't have the best playback value and gets old pretty quickly.", "First of all, I don't like the new graphic style of the game.", "When I turned it on the first thing I thought of was Dexter's Laboratory.", "It has a very cartoonish (American-style cartoon) look to it and doesn't feel like a Pokemon game at all.", "Second, what's with that story?", "You play as some girl who is a secret agent out to get people who are trying to steal Pokemon...", "probably the dumbest thing Pokemon has done since...", "well since forever.", "Since when does the world of Pokemon have secret agents?", "It just doesn't seem to go well.", "The gameplay is pretty fun.", "I love puzzle games, and this one is challenging and it makes you think.", "You control rows and colums of Pokemon that fall from the top of the screen one by one (entire rows don't fall at once, Pokemon do) and try to match them up.", "This is a lot like Tetris Attack in some respects, except you move the entire row or column instead of switching individual places.", "You have to try to clear the screen of all Pokemon.", "You control the Pokemon from the touch screen, but the top screen is also part of the level.", "If the top screen fills all the way up, you lose.", "Dittos are wild, and there are rare Pokemon that only appear in the levels every so often, some of which disappear quickly if you don't combo them right away.", "Since you have a Pokedex, the rare ones go into that collection.", "I'm not really a fan of the new-school Pokemon - I liked it better when there were 151 of them and they were more creative (come on, what the heck is PINECO??", ").", "That gives me a bias against the new games to begin with.", "However, as a puzzle game this game is really not all that creative.", "It's fun for a few days and then it gets boring.", "You fight different \"Bosses\" and collect Pokemon for your Pokedex.", "It's fun, but this is nothing new.", "Check it out if you find it for a good price, but otherwise, there are much better DS games out there." ]

[ "This is a decent tumbler that we wanted to use for rocks and sea glass.", "It does work and works fairly well and isn't at all loud.", "Let me clarify the noise: It's quite enough to let run in your garage but you won't want it in your house.", "It has one pretty major flaw and that's how the tumbler drums (where your rocks would go) seal.", "You pop a round plastic piece on the top and then a rubber band fits around it to hold it in.", "This will likely be fine if you tumble dry but you'll likely be tumbling wet and that means it's bound to leak on you.", "It seems like after 4-5 days of running it would pop its top off and you'd have a mess all over the place.", "With that in mind, put it in a pan to catch the mess when (not if, but when) it happens.", "We found that checking it every few days and popping off the rubber band and resealing will help avoid that mess but who wants to do that?", "If they fix the sealing issue so the top stops popping off this would be 5 stars for sure." ]

[ "I hate this game.", "I cannot express in words the degree to which I hate this game.", "If this game were a person, I could run it down with my car and not feel the slightest twinge of ethical concern.", "I hate it so much it leads me to forget things that I've been trained to know are right and good and simply shout expletives in its general direction for the next few hundred words.", "Fortunately for this game, I'm not quite that much of a jerk.", "Imagine that you took Test Drive: Unlimited and the last decent Burnout title, smashed them together, and then carefully excised everything even remotely fun from the mangled monstrosity that resulted.", "There, my friend, you have found Burnout Paradise.", "Everything about Revenge that entertained me enough to keep from snapping the disc in half and tossing it into traffic has been removed from this game, and I can't in good conscience recommend it to anybody.", "One thing that I can't fault the game for is its appearance, which is certainly a step up.", "The game is definitely beautiful.", "Driving through Paradise City, you get to see a lot of different environments, and every single one springs off the screen and directly into your face like some kind of carnivorous monster.", "When it comes to useful visuals for the gameplay, however, there's some problems with the level of detail included in the game's environments - specifically, I have a hard time figuring out where the bloody road turns in some locations.", "This is worst in the downtown areas and best on the outskirts of town, but ANY time I miss my turn because it doesn't look like there's a road there at all, somebody needs to yell at the graphical designer.", "The game sound is mostly unremarkable, so let's not.", "It won't make you physically angry, and I guess that you might like the soundtrack (I personally loathed roughly 80% of the included music, but that's not atypical for me with an EA title), but it's not going to pleasure you sexually or make you reevaluate your life.", "My problems with the game all have to do with the gameplay, or, rather, the lack thereof.", "If you've played Revenge, you might remember fun modes like Traffic Attack or Crash Mode.", "Those were pretty terrific, right?", "Well, they're gone.", "Not only are they gone, but some of the fundamental rules that you would have learned from prior games in the series have been utterly invalidated.", "The big one is the rules on What Kind of Traffic Causes Crashes.", "In Revenge, they had a simple rule - if you could see headlights or it was a truck, you would wreck into it.", "Otherwise, you knock it to the side.", "I don't know what they replaced that with, but I DO know that in the first hour I played, I wrecked against no fewer than ten cars stopped at intersections, smaller than me, facing away from me.", "Of greater concern is the bald stupidity that comes from building an open world street racing game in a world that nobody has ever been to.", "If this game were set in San Marcos, TX, I'd be all over it because I KNOW WHERE THOSE STREETS ARE.", "I don't know where anything is in this game and the game doesn't do anything at all to help you learn.", "I'm faced, as a newcomer, with the choice between spending ten hours losing hard just to learn where everything is (not fun) and just plain losing because I don't know where anything is (also not fun).", "Closed tracks are fun because it's hard to get lost.", "I got lost in three of my first ten events in this game and ended up on practically the wrong side of town.", "That's bad.", "I could go on for a thousand more words, but I won't belabor my point too heavily.", "The game has been well received, and maybe it's just me.", "Maybe people who like \"open world\" style games will find something to enjoy here.", "I didn't.", "I found Test Drive to be a better implementation of the idea.", "With limited modes that mostly feel identical, no Crash mode (seriously - Crash mode was a puzzle game and that was FUN; Showtime is entirely random), undirected gameplay, poor layout, and any number of other problems, this game would have to come with chocolate cake and my own personal supermodel before I would even consider recommending it.", "There's a lot of potential for an open world Burnout game, but this isn't the game to realize that dream." ]

[ "Majora's Mask stands above all other Aonuma Zelda offerings as Eiji Aonuma's magnum opus of horribleness.", "Meaning if you ever doubted for just a moment that Eiji Aonuma was a horrible videogame director/creator/producer THIS is the game that should change your mind about that.", "Majora's Mask's game world and design utterly radiates Aonuma's total lack of charisma and incompetence throughout.", "From the goofy stupid moon above (which Aonuma/Nintendo fan lemmings constantly scream is \"OMG MATURE AND DARK!!", "111!!", "\") to the obnoxiously nasty remixed music of The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past's overworld theme this Aonuma Zelda offering, (the first of far too many) began the viscious cycle of Aonuma becoming the turd in The Legend Of Zelda's proverbial punch bowl and thus the Zelda series began it's steep decline in sales as it slides down Aonuma's creativity colon into the commode known as the bomba bin, where it then is flushed and deposited in the septic sewer of unsustainability.", "This game is the penultimate game for non entities and Aonuma's fellow traveller charisma deficients to cling on to and claim is oh so great in a pathetic attempt to make themselves look artsy, edgy and cultured as a result because *wink wink* reader, they know something about Majora's Mask that WE don't know...", "or so their asperger's syndrome/autism addled minds makes them think.", "Yes indeed followers, lemmings and mental defectives are Majora's Masks main audience ie hipsters, liberal geldings, guys who get barb wire tattoos on their biceps because they think it makes them look tough etc.", "THOSE are the kind of weirdos that are drawn to defending Majora's Mask on gaming forums and making it out like it is the second coming when all it is in reality is Eiji Aonuma's second attempt at playing game designer.", "Well his first attempt with \"Marvelous\" failed abysmally and his constant inability to learn his lesson (and quit while he's ahead) has unsurprisingly resulted in another sales bomb for him with this trash known as Majora's Mask which I am reviewing for you Amazon's game customers now.", "The internet lames petition to have Majora's Mask made into a 3DS game has predictably and utterly (not to mention gloriously) failed because Nintendo knows what I know and that is Majora's Mask was a dud when it originally launched thus its not like its suddenly going to light the world on fire if it's re-released now.", "Oh the Nintendo fan lemmings and Nintendo damage controllists continually make their excuses for why the game failed ie they'll say that it failed because it was released at the end of the Nintendo 64's lifespan and required an add on to work, etc.", "Yet the truth of the matter is the game failed because it was a different game altogether than a Legend Of Zelda game.", "It was a completely different game that simply featured Link, the setting was uninspiring and the NPC's were bad as is typical of Aonuma Zelda games.", "The Nintendo fanboy excuses for why Majora's Mask failed don't hold water because a truly epic game, a game that creates a phenomenon like the original Super Mario Brothers, Halo or Ocarina Of Time for example...", "it wouldn't matter if such games were released at the end of a console's lifespan, or if they needed an add on or both, fans would move both heaven and earth to secure their copy and get whatever add on they needed to be able to play it.", "Thats the kind of motivating power true gaming phenomenon's possess and Majora's Mask just didn't have it because it wasn't the game the true Zelda fanbase were looking for at the time which was a true genuine sequel to Ocarina Of Time.", "People argue and even Nintendo says that Majora's Mask was a sequel to Ocarina Of Time as it used child Link from Ocarina Of Time but these damage controllists and Nintendo simply do not get it, get what people wanted out of a sequel to a game like Ocarina Of Time.", "We wanted a game that continued the sandbox/open world exploration of Hyrule and it's themes and lore, a non linear game world featuring Hyrule's forests, fields and rivers, lakes and lost woods, Ganon, Zelda, Gorons and the whole nine yards of what the true Zelda experience entails, just even more epic than Ocarina Of Time's experience was due to the idea that Nintendo would learn something about creating midieval sword and sorcery fantasy adventure epics that feel so good to play they are damn near like having a religious experience and we'd think they'd of learned as much from having made Ocarina Of Time, Link To The Past and even the very first Zelda game on the NES but NOOOOO!!!!", "Nintendo had to put Aonuma in charge of Zelda instead of who they should have that being Kozuimi and because of that this effeminate geek/dweeb non entity hack Jimmy Fallon of Japan, pretentious, egg headed, left brained high IQ beta male whose never gone on an adventure or taken any big risks in life who can't identify with regular everyday normal people has just got to prove his worth and show us just how \"creative\" he can be by using the Legend Of Zelda IP to vomit out his second modern art/art house flop disaster Major Embarassment...", "oops I meant Majora's Mask...", "(or did I?", ")\n\nAnd the result just like his first game \"Marvelous\" was a sales flop.", "NO SURPRISE THERE!", "Anyway Ocarina Of Time fans wanted Nintendo to take things to the next level instead of giving us garbage like the world of Termina and it's boring circular field and its incredibly boring and lame Clock town and a boring goofy looking totally non threatening moon overhead and a closet homosexual manchild named Tingle to mock true Zelda fans with as Kojima mocked Metal Gear Solid fans in a similar but far less offensive way with Raiden.", "Nintendo please for sanity's sake fire this guy already or if you can't bring yourself to firing Eiji Aonuma at least switch his role in the company to something that'd be more befitting his skill-set which in other words means he should be cleaning the corporate toilets or bringing donuts and coffee to people, if not rice and octupus (whatever corporate types in Japan prefer for breakfast)." ]

[ "First off, only one comes with this page, even though it says, \"2-pack\" with the little Amazon smile under it, so don't get your hopes up.", "I though I was getting a good deal and ended up paying twice as much as it's worth.", "The inside diameter of the larger bell end is 3.", "977 inches.", "It tapers to 3.", "665 inches, which is the ID of the small end, which is straight walled as opposed to the tapered bell end.", "The OD of the straight section is 3.", "91 inches.", "Overall length is 3.", "98 inches.", "It'll work.", "I'm a little miffed that it said 2 and only 1 arrived." ]

[ "I love Bodum products, but in this case they've failed.", "I have a few coffee presses from then and even stovetop moka pots.", "I should have listened to my inner Alton Brown and just used one of those for tea, but I wanted separate pots for tea and coffee.", "Coffee tastes stay in the presses for a while after you use them.", "As for this pot, I'm extremely disappointed with them.", "No matter how I try to pour it, it always drips and dribbles down the side of the pot and it gets all over my table.", "The pouring lip is way too short and the round fat pot makes you have to start pouring.", "It looks awesome and my coworkers all admire how \"cute\" it looks, but it's all show and no go.", "The strainer mechanism isn't that great.", "The holes don't seem to allow the water to pass through it that well.", "I've had cheaper better similar looking (but not as pretty) pots from chinatown that look better using mesh.", "I can't recommend it." ]

[ "I purchased 3 of these solar chargers to provide backup charging during power outages and trips to far flung places.", "At first they worked as designed; the photovoltaic panels charged the internal battery which could then be removed and used to charge phones and other appliances with the electrical conntector kit included.", "A little more than a year later it is disapponting to see that the connectors are rusting.", "Yes the unit's electrical connectors between the solar panel and the battery have so much corrosion and rust on them that they can no longer charge.", "How did this happen?", "This unit has not been in the field since I bought it.", "It has sat in my study on a table next to the window the entire time.", "Maybe it would be understandable if I had this unit sitting on the deck of a boat in the ocean but no, its hardware can't stand up to life on a shelf in an air conditioned, heated suburban study.", "They built a nice unit, I paid a nice price and because they cheaped out on the spec'd electrical connectors I have a unit that doesn't work any more.", "Updated Oct 2013--Voltaic customer service sent me a new unit and paid for me to ship my old unit back to them so they could check out the corrosion issue.", "That is impressive.", "Many firms will send out replacements just to quiet a customer but few seem to want to research the problem and learn from the incident.", "Kudos to Voltaic.", "The replacement unit is working great too with no sign of a recurrence of the issue." ]

[ "Brunswick Gardens: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel, (1998), by best-selling New Zealand-born author Anne Perry.", "This historical British mystery is the eighteenth in the Pitt series, set in Victorian England, this time in Londons affluent Brunswick Gardens.", "The battle over author Charles Darwins revolutionary theory of evolution is intense throughout society.", "It intensifies in the home of the respected Reverend Ramsey Parmenter, biblical scholar tipped soon be made bishop, as the Reverend is boldly challenged by his beautiful new assistant.", "Unity Bellwooda new woman whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism the reverend finds appalling.", "When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles down the staircase to her death, Superintendent Thomas Pitt who has been sent from Bow Street station off his usual patch for this investigation considered sensitive--is certain that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder.", "Could it have been the Reverend Parmenter?", "His handsome curate Dominic Corde, widower of Pitts wifes sister, who had been murdered nearly ten years before, when Charlotte and Pitt had first met, a time of great chaos in their lives when Charlotte had, in fact, for a while, fallen wildly in love with this handsome brother in law?", "Or Parmenters son, Mallory, a fervent convert to Roman Catholicism?", "Pitt and his clever wife, Charlotte, refuse to settle for less than the truthor less than justice.", "Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including DEATH ON BLACKHEATH and MIDNIGHT AT MARBLE ARCH, and the William Monk novels, including BLOOD ON THE WATER and BLIND JUSTICE.", "She is also the author of a series of five World War I novels, as well as twelve holiday novels, including A NEW YORK CHRISTMAS.", "Also a historical novel, THE SHEEN ON THE SILK, set in the Ottoman Empire.", "The writer lives in Los Angeles and Scotland.", "Thats her canned bio.", "But her real life is much more unusual: she may be the only mystery author to be a convicted murderer herself.", "The story is told in the New Zealand-set film HEAVENLY CREATURES, which, coincidentally, introduced Kate Winslet to the screen.", "Two adolescent girls, Pauline Parker, 16, and Juliet Hulme, 15, were found guilty of killing Paulines mother Honora Mary Parker with a brick in a sock, because she was trying to restrict their too-intense fantasy life.", "Hulme is the woman now calling herself Anne Perry.", "They were tried, found guilty, confined to juvenile detention at the Justice Ministers pleasure.", "Released rather quickly, on condition they never see each other again.", "Between then and launching her career as a novelist, Perry also had a remarkable resume, including a stint as an air stewardess\n\nI have previously read and reviewed, on its website here, the authors FACE OF A STRANGER, from the William Monk series, which I preferred to this book.", "It more accurately showed the horrendous poverty of the majority of Londons population at the time, which this book makes no effort to do.", "And it gives us a fine new woman, with a nod to Florence Nightingale, in a nurse recently returned from the Crimean War.", "According to the critics, Charlotte too is supposed to be a new woman, like Unity, not content to sit home and mind her household and children, though this characteristic is not much on show in this novel; perhaps it is more pronounced in others in this series.", "Also, the book is dated.", "Its language is extraordinarily formal, not just the dialog but the narrative, as well.", "The more modern way with dialog in historical material -- see DOWNTON ABBEY-- has the characters talking more like us, informally.", "After all, we don't actually know how historic people talked, only how they wrote.", "So why not have them talk informally?", "Its a lot easier on the eye and the ear.", "Then, sorry to say, the book, at nearly 400 pages is very very slow.", "And the denouement, the solution to the mystery?", "It reminded me of a panel of mystery authors I recently heard at Boucher.", "con, an international convention of crime writers and readers.", "Authors who did not start out with their plot already charted admitted they would get to the end, decide whodunit, then go back and drop in some clues.", "Thats how BRUNSWICK GARDENS reads, down to the dated denouement in the last few pages.", "Cant recommend." ]

[ "Fans of the survival horror gaming genre were no doubt excited by unraveling the mystery of Sirens errie Japanese town with the terrifying past.", "Sadly, the premise is about as exciting as the game gets.", "The Pros\n\nThis game is a really gorgeous visual treat.", "The chracters are rendered with a new technolgy that actually wraps realistic images onto 3d computerized planes.", "The setting has been developed well.", "The village of Hanuda is a scary place cast in eternal darkness surrounded by a sea of blood and of course the Siren going off in the background.", "The Cons (and there are many)\n\nThe game developers dubbed the game with a British voice over crew which in the beginning is comical but after awhile just feels ridiculous.", "For some people this may not be an issue at all but for me it just seemed distracting playing a Japanese guy and to hear him shout \"Oi Mate!", "wait up!", "\"\n\nSecondly, the gameplay is terribly limited and re-do's abound.", "More skilled gamers may not have to replay missions as much but I found it hard not to be killed as 80% of the time your only defense is to run and hide.", "The game employs a drop down menu to issue command to your character.", "The menu is easy to use but truly annoying.", "A good example occurs on the first mission.", "Your goal is to escape a bad guy via car.", "The drop down menu asks you 1) Would you like to pick up the car key?", "2) Would you like get in the car?", "3) Put key in ignition?", "4) Turn key to start car?", "- truly gets to be cumbersome to game play.", "Lastly, the game uses a event system/ time table for you to keep track of events as they happen to all 10 playable chracters.", "While that sounds convoluted in itself it only gets worse that you have to play all ten characters and not one at a time.", "The game is broken up into missions.", "For example,one mission may involve a journalist and reveal certian parts of the mystery and these events are recorded on the time table.", "The next mission you are introduced to a new character and complete the next mission and learn more.", "You must refer back to the time table to try and piece it all together.", "Siren was a truly exciting idea thta really failed to deliver.", "I don't feel many people actually completed as I myself grew bored and gave up halfway through.", "If you truly want to be scared and enetertained I recommend Fatal Frame 1 or 2 as both are in my opinion the best (and scariest) the genre has to offer." ]

[ "As recent as two weeks ago there were many negative reviews on this product but now I see only one other than mine and that person thinks its wonderful.", "I did read the negative reviews prior to purchasing in April but thought \"no\" they must be doing something wrong.", "I have used Mr.", "Coffee Ice Tea Makers for probably 15 years without an issue...", "Many different ones over the years.", "This worked OK for the first month...", "I always put a papertowel around the outside of the pitcher to catch any drips...", "now about two months into owning this appliance it does not just drip.", "First a little bit was not going into the pitcher, now about half the tea coming out of the ice tea maker ends up all over the floor, in the drawers, in the cabinets and all over the counter.", "Prior negative reviews (by the way where did they all go?", ") said they thought the pitcher got out of shape over a period of time and didn't engage properly where the tea comes out.", "That sounds like the only thing that it could be.", "Today I went to make a pitcher of tea and stood there for about 3-4 minutes until it first started dispensing tea and there were no leaks...", "went back about five minutes later and it was all over the floor.", "No one else in the house so no one was bumping it which is I thought at first was happening.", "Is the heat from hot tea causing contraction of the pitcher?.", "Not sure - but the ice tea maker that seems to be the best seller (and one that many of the other negative reviews that were removed recommended) is about the same price so I've ordered it to see how it works.", "It is the Hamilton Beach 40911-2.", "It's only 2 quarts but what the heck....", "after half of the tea in this Mr.", "COfee Ice Tea Maker ends up on the floor, I'm still ahead of the game." ]

[ "Gads what a bore.", "This writing style is something I just can't abide.", "Maybe if the long passages of personal philosophy and political beliefs were left out.", "But I doubt it.", "I finally started skipping some of the paragraphs and skimming others.", "There is no action.", "I repeat no action.", "The blog/book is a recitation of what happened.", "It is written as a historical document.", "It is about as dull as as the author can make it.", "I made it about two thirds of the way through this mess before I finally threw in the towel.", "Did I mention there is no action?", "This book has all the excitement of watching paint dry.", "The reviewers who said this book is exciting must eat Prozac for breakfast and live in solitary confinement or a sensory deprivation chamber.", "The characters are unsympathetic.", "Saying they are not well drawn would be high praise.", "The white pages of a phone book have better drawn characters.", "Oh, and by the way, there is no action." ]

[ "Pros:\n- Many cool effects like vinyl slowdown and phaser delay.", "- Display shows what effect is selected.", "- Tap tempo and auto tempo.", "- Built-in recorder.", "- Can slow down and speed up MP3s using touch slider.", "Cons:\n- The micro switches under the buttons on the sides are flimsy and prone to break off with minimal pressure.", "- It can store three favorites but the memory is cleared if the batteries are low or not installed.", "- It loads only one MP3 into memory at a time.", "It doesn't have a playlist so cannot be used as an MP3 player.", "- It uses mini stereo jacks for input and output making it difficult for professional purposes.", "It should have standard 1/4\" ins and outs.", "- Body is made of thin plastic and is not robust (unlike the mini KP which is better built).", "- Doesn't save last selected effect when turned off.", "[DW]" ]

[ "I was drawn to this biography largely for two reasons: Morris' previous work and my fascination with the enigma and person of Ronald Reagan.", "Morris has proven ( especially his work on Teddy Roosevelt which is a must read!", ") to be an author who not only carefully researchs his subject but also renders his narratives with a hand fully capable of impressible verbal dexterity.", "In \"Dutch:A Memoir of Ronald Reagan\", Morris continues to display his many great talents.", "BUT.", ".", ".", ".", ".", ".", "although I respect his artistic license with the fictitious first person narrator (and Morris follows in a long line of authors who have successfully utilized such a convention), it simply doesn't work for me.", "The presence of the contrived voice immediately aroused in me questions of Morris' validity.", "While it is obvious that Morris has continued his uncanny ability to collect, examine, reflect, and expand upon a great many facts gained through years of painfully detailed research, the conventions of fiction simply made it very difficult for me as a reader to filter out the facts.", "In building, as all successful biographers must, the wider frame of historical reference, Morris has to spend pages building his imagined narrator's backstory.", "Because I was constantly having to differentiate between the apparently imagined world and the historic in these digressions, I found this book a far too exhausting and frustrating read.", "Granted, perhaps that is Morris' final point, that he found himself unable to cut through the battle in Reagan's life between the imagined and the real to paint a compellingly personal portrait.", "I admit that Morris' literary choices are an admirable tactic to overcome such a daunting obstacle to: \"Bring Forth So Great An Object.", "\"\nIt is just as a reader, I like to keep my fiction and my history seperated.", "At least as much as possible." ]

[ "this game is an atrocity.", "first let me start with the single player...", "too linear, short, controls are clumsy and make it hard to aim, and its basically the same throughout the entire game.", "the multiplayer was fun for about 30 minutes until i realized if you have a rocket launcher...", "you win.", "the controls make multiplayer an angry experience.", "the levels are crappy and make it an all out chaotic event, which is good if there is a certain amount of control.", "there should be no teams because you cant tell who is who.", "the game should be 30 dollars.", "the graphics are pretty though.", "not a very good rent definitely not a good buy.", "spend your money on a good game like metal gear solid or little big planet" ]

[ "These cases are O.", "K. but fragile.", "If you drop one, it's trashed.", "My main complaint is that only 40% of them are useable.", "I bought mine at BestBuy.", "When I got them home, I opened the package and found most of the cases were missing the little plastic hinge.", "Tried to return them, but BestBuy accused me of breaking them.", "I went into the store and inspected the other packages.", "Those too had most of the hinges missing.", "Go ahead, buy 'em if you want to.", "You'll just end up throwing most of them away." ]

[ "I knew what I was doing, I knew it, why was I trying to kid myself.", "I wanted some good ole mediocre processed pasta, And that's what I got.", "The picture on the package is a bold face lie.", "Look at those succulent long, plump noodles.", "Those will not be found the pot you pour this package into.", "In this package, all the noodles have been broken into quarter inch pieces for easy chewing.", "As for the Alfredo, well, it's technically a white sauce, though it has no real taste.", "But again, I wasn't expecting that much when I got this.", "I did dress it up with some of my own pasta, some pesto, grilled chicken and some parm.", "But if you are hoping for a wonderful side to magical appear in minutes, you will be disappointed." ]

[ "This is pretty much the worst and most over-hyped game of 2005 and made a lot of 'bottom 10' lists in many magazines last month.", "And it bloody deserves it.", "The problems with this game begin before you even lift it off the shelf in the store.", "I mean take a look at the cover.", "It's 50 Cent, one of the few African American 'role models' around these days, in a defencive pose with a stereotypical 'angry black guy' look on his face (oh, please don't hurt me Mr.", "Cent!", ").", "Now I am not a fuddy-duddy conservative who blames people like Marilyn Manson for corrupting kids or whatever because I know kids are more intelligent than adults give them credit for.", "But America is a very racist country and when 50 Cent misrepresents the Black Community and backs up the xenophobic myth that all Black people are evil or killers or gang-bangers in some way I can't help but get very annoyed.", "Second of all is the fact that this drivel game is no more than a laughable male fantasy.", "Yes, I know Mr.", "Cent has been shot 9 times but it was all at once with low calibre bullets.", "It's not as if he goes out and gets shot at every day and is immune to all lead fired in the direction of his person.", "I know 50 Cent has had a really, REALLY, RE-EALLY tough life, that I would not wish upon anyone.", "But when violence and death have haunted you your whole life the LAST thing you should do is capitalise on a game that glorifies gun-play and gang warfare.", "That's just disgusting and perverse and if Mr.", "Cent truly 'kept it real' (what a ridiculous, meaningless phrase) he would treat his demons with respect.", "Using music as a way of working through them is fine but starring in a video game where the main enjoyment comes from blowing people away certainly is NOT.", "As I have said, there are few African American role models and he should set an example to those following behind him.", "While his innovative music may have made him a huge success this game smashes any credibility I feel he may have had.", "Third?", "Well the story to the game is childish and stupid anyway.", "It's not even entertaining accidentally as it's just way too dull.", "And fourth?", "Well don't get me started on the horrible targeting system and awful controls.", "It'll make you want to smash your control pad into your TV screen.", "What a horribly cheaply programmed game!", "Fifth?", "Well, that would have to be the bland, graphics and tedious environments.", "It all adds up to a pretty (read VERY) unsatisfying experience.", "Mere days after being released most stores had zillions of copies traded in as those foolish enough to buy it blind quickly discovered what a rotten game it is as well as a hideously over-indulgent and grossly misjudged vanity piece.", "BEWARE!!!", "Graphics C\n\nSound B-\n\nGameplay D-\n\nLasting Appeal D" ]

[ "I was extremely disappointed in this product.", "First after shaking thoroughly, I sprayed my newly painted a few days before old terra cotta pots.", "It went on super glossy which I thought was lovely until after 24 hours I touched it thinking it was dry.", "Big mistake!", "it was like oil all over the pots.", "I don’t know if the spray was bad somehow or just a screw up from the manufacturer.", "So I waited another day.", "It still wouldn’t dry right it again was like oil all over my pots.", "I was so upset because spending $100 on the pots in the first place than having them ruined using this spray truly ruined my month.", "The Smell was horrible which was another problem so after a week trying everything to get these pots to dry in 76 degree perfect weather I gave up." ]

[ "Doesn't do a thing.", "It doesn't work, it is a waste of money.", "I talked to my fish store people and was advised to throw this junk out and get an RO/DI System (and no, they don't sell them at all) then all of my water's PH, GH, and KH worries would be over.", "So that is what I am in the process of doing.", "The side benefit is that I no longer will need to purchase RO water at the store to drink.", "Initial investment....", "....", "..", "yes, (you can get units for under $100 here on Amazon) Peace of mind....", "....", "....", "yes.", "Juggling with all the water testing....", "....", "..", "not any more!!", "Stop using this junk.", "You will have happier fish." ]

[ "I'm sorry, but when a game says it is WinXP compatable, but you have to modify it to make it run on XP, then it isn't compatable.", "I had 2 of the original games, and had to do a lot of work to get them working.", "I can live with that with the originals.", "But I got the platinum version because it implied that it worked, out of the box, with XP.", "It doesn't.", "To the reviewer that said that you can troubleshoot it, why should we have to?", "Since just about everyone is using XP, stay away from this, unless you like messing with it.", "Even IGN sites don't have a \"this will make it work on XP\" patches or fixes.", "Great games, if you can get it to work.", "If you aren't computer knowledgable enough to get them going without worrying about grabbing virus laden programs, stay away!", "I have it 2 stars, because if you can get them to work, these are great games." ]

[ "This item just simply stopped working (audio reception was ok, but voice transmission was total failure) after only about 4 short months.", "We called amazon to arrange for a replacement, but learned that this headset is no longer available.", "Small wonder.", "We had experienced the same problem with this exact type headset in the past, with different makers.", "Panasonic comes to mind, but there were others.", "We may have even written a review about it on here at that time...", "Anyway...", "amazon were kind enough to offer a full refund.", "As always, they have been epic.", "We shall be looking elsewhere for a reliable headset that won't break the bank.", "We have reviewed quite a few items over the years for amazon, but until now have never said anything that even remotely approached the following:\nStay away from this product at all cost.", "Not just the Jensen version, but this particular Headset under any brand name.", "It never ends well." ]

[ "I've purchased these locally several times over the past three years at a music store.", "Mainly due to the low cost.", "They work okay, but are difficult to keep in tune.", "The guitars have to be re-tuned often when temperature, humidity, or playing more than ten minutes occurs.", "My biggest complaint is tarnish and corrosion.", "Add that to the winding separating over the fret bars exposing the inner solid string, then the strings go \"flat\" sounding.", "These are not quality strings at all, just cheap Chinese Made quality.", "They are okay for someone that doesn't play often, but if you play daily or as a performer, avoid these strings.", "Better strings are worth the extra cost.", "You actually save money by not having to replace them often as you do with these cheap strings.", "I've had this problem with all the D'Addario brand strings, both for electric or acoustic, 6 or 12 string guitars.", "The thinner gauge strings will break during tuning or playing.", "The tarnish and corrosion often ends up contaminating the fret bars and keeping the neck dirty all the time.", "Cleaning after each playing session only makes the strings corrode faster." ]

[ "Imagine a story where the characters are emotional, immature wrecks, the plot is raggedly stitched together like Frankenstein and stretched like taffy, vocabulary words are chronically misused, punctuation is used sporadically (and incorrectly), Aussie gutter slang is bandied about to the point of incoherency, conversation grates painfully and awkwardly, and you feel like if you read one line more you'll want to sew your eyelids shut just to block out the excruciating pain coming from your brain's logic center.", "Imagine all of that and you still won't come within throwing distance of this pile.", "I'm not normally this tactless...", "but dear heaven above, this book was a hot mess.", "This author has absolutely no grasp of the English language - I felt like I needed a darn decoder ring (yup, another book in need of this mystical decoder ring).", "Half the time I couldn't tell whether she was misspelling a word, using the wrong term or throwing in more nonsensical slang.", "Example:\n\"He put his head into the crock of his arm...", "\"\n\nThe main conflict that the whole book was built on was so ridiculously hollow that the author was forced to create drama out of thin air just to keep it going, leaving the reader thinking \"what the heck are they so upset about?", "\" or \"wait, where in the heck did that come from?", "\".", "We are forced, to endure 'horrible, punctuation that violates the rhythm, of the sentences to the point that you.", "Often have to re-read...", "just to make sure, that you understand it.", "Correctly.", "Don't even get me started on the actual story, which is nothing but a sloppy mishmash of pathetic, juvenile, bi-polar puppy love that no one in their right mind can relate to.", "Want to read about a rich, gorgeous, 27 year old virgin and a prude, frigid, vengeful Hun?", "I implore you - read a sample if you don't believe me.", "From the very beginning this book is a train wreck.", "You can't even tell what in blue blazes is going on until a couple chapters in.", "I literally stopped at 50% in just to write this review...", "and am still stunned that I forced myself to read this far.", "I'd burn it if it weren't on my Kindle." ]

[ "If I could give less than 1, I would.", "This was $15 worth of nothing.", "Keep in mind, I rarely give poor reviews.", "If I don't like something, I simply just don't use it or toss it.", "But this thing pissed me off enough to where I had to vent.", "I assume it would do fine cutting wood, or plastic maybe.", "I'll give it a shot if I ever need it for that.", "But, it is supposed to be able to cut mild steel, copper, aluminum, etc also.", "I would get maybe 5 revolutions with it on mild steel (body sheet metal) before it would grind the cutter tip to nothing.", "I took it to the grinder to sharpen it, and tried again.", "3 times, in about 5 minutes before I realized the blade must be made of warm butter.", "It may shine with wood and plastics, but my review is based on metal as it is supposed to be able to cut.", "It simply doesn't.", "If you need to cut a hole in metals, find something else.", "If you need to cut holes in wood/plastic, maybe it will work for ya.", "Good luck with it." ]

[ "as a petcare professional, i strongly urge no one to buy any type of OTC (over the counter) version of flea & tick control.", "as stated in the first review, it can kill or make your pet seriously ill.", "my Russian Blue almost died a few years ago when i stupidly tried to save money & i KNEW better!", "300 bucks later & a few bags of IV fluids, my Jake started to recover but he may have residual kidney damage.", "IS YOUR PET'S LIFE WORTH SAVING A FEW BUCKS??", "not mine.", "even if its worked well in the past, w/ new formulas & products, you are putting your pets' life in danger w/ every product such as this you put on them.", "besides, they don't work as well, last as long or kill a variety of stages like the rx.", "so you really aren't saving money in the long run.", "hope this helps.", "pw\n\nps....", "at least Hartz pd my vet bill!" ]

[ "I have been playing Final Fantasy since Final Fantasy I, and over time the games have become worse and worse, and this one tops it off.", "What do I expect when I play an RPG?", "Well, I plan on there being some interactions in towns with NPCs, side quests, and other fun things.", "Instead, this game is just a looonngg mission.", "Eventually the game opens up a little (but barely), and I kept wondering, \"When is this going to get interesting?", "\" For the first 10 hours I kept saying, \"Well, I'll take care of equipment when I reach a town.", "\" Well, you'll have a long wait if you do that.", "If I want to do repetitive missions, there are plenty of games for that.", "Not only is it repetitive and quite boring, you can very rarely travel back to places you came from.", "There's never a break or \"slow-pace\" in the game, which most Final Fantasy's have, and that's part of the allure to them.", "One of my favorite things about Final Fantasy XII was toward the end, your ability to go back and visit nostalgic places like Midgar and where Cloud met Aeris, etc.", "There's nothing like this here.", "The characters are rather boring as well, and the story is cliche.", "I expect my RPGs to have a lot of fun side quests, linearity, and to be able to talk to NPCs and engage in dialogue.", "It's hard to believe that Final Fantasy XIII can't even beat the quality of Final Fantasy IV.", "I was so looking forward to this and expecting so much, and it turns out that Square Enix was just *lazy.", "* I expect a lot more in the future." ]

[ "As an adult gamer, I thought I'd try this game and see what it's about.", "If you like driving or racing games, this is for you.", "It reminds me of Pac n Roll DS where the pac man rolls down lanes.", "This game is similar.", "You have to roll the ball with the monkey inside it down certain paths, collect bananas along the way and race against time to the goal.", "That's basically it for this game.", "I can see where kids would enjoy this simple & cute game.", "The graphics are nice and in 3D.", "The stylus can be used in this game but the buttons are preferred for better control.", "I am not into racing or driving games so in my opinion, I gave this 2 stars." ]

[ "There were 2 reasons I avoided buying my first iPhone, a 3GS.", "First, I didn't think I needed it.", "Second, it looked very fragile.", "When I learned of the highly regarded Otterbox Defender case, I took the leap.", "I was never let down.", "Although the Dfender case was never advertised as waterproof, water was NEVER a problem for me.", "Naturally, when I upgraded to a 4S last fall, the Defender case for 4S was the natural choice.", "WHAT A LETDOWN!", "Although yes, the Defender still protects from the accidental drops and dings a cell phone goes through, this case seems to attract water to my iPhone!", "I can't go on a run without having at the minimum, the plastic screen protector of the Otterbox fogging up and becoming unusable.", "But more times than not, I also get the temporary audio loss associated with the iPhone being exposed to excessive moisture.", "Now I KNOW the Otterbox Defender is NOT advertised as waterproof.", "But for all intents and purposes, the 3G/GS case did a great job of sealing out the elements.", "But the wider opening at the base that makes the newer Otterbox more friendly to 3rd party cables and wider opening at the headphone jack just seem to let moisture pour in.", "Since summer heat returned to where I live, my daily routine involves taking apart my Otterbox post-run to dry both it and my iPhone out, while I park my iPhone in front of my office space heater to accelerate the evaporation of the moisture that the Otterbox allowed inside.", "A friend and fellow fitness buff turned me onto the Life Proof case but I'd avoided it because of the cost and apparent hassle that it seems to involve.", "But the newest Otterbox Defender leaves me no choice." ]

[ "Oh my god this was the worst horrible terrible.", "Pixellated text and horrible and made me dizzy and the worst and bad and not good and bad too.", "Are you thinking about buying this as a computer monitor?", "I recommend that you do not.", "Don't read the description they provide, trust me - it's not a computer monitor.", "No no no no jn no.", "Oh my god no.", "God forbid.", "Please ono.", "Don't even think about it.", "On the other hand it is an attractive piece of hardware, aesthetically I mean.", "But as a computer monitor?", "I think you already know what I think of it - I think it is not good for this.", "Do not try at home." ]

[ "Reading the Title one may wonder why I bothered with 2 stars: well, because I'm a big Dungeons & Dragons fan.", "All of the D&D games for the PC have been hit or miss - like 'em or hate 'em, I suppose.", "This one, the ToEE, makes me writhe in hatred.", "Graphics & Sound:\n\n- the graphics were okay.", "They could have been much better and the other D&D game contemporaneous with this one - the Ruins of Myth Drannor - looked and sounded better.", "Suffice to say the graphics, music, and sound effects are tolerable but not particularly engaging or well done.", "- I should redeem some points for the game in saying that graphics and sound aren't the end-all of PC RPG games.", "But in today's market, with the hardware available for home gaming, it's a shame that we role-players can't have more!", "Gameplay:\n\n- Vastly inferior to Neverwinter Nights, Ruins of Myth Drannor, and Baldur's Gate...", "Character creation was very sloppy and somewhat removed from the real D&D process.", "It's not hard to create a superhero character in this game (as in other games as well) and there is no real chance to create a \"wrong\" character.", "It takes away from the responsibility.", "- Playing in game was clunky and cumbersome.", "The interface for the game is not intuitive and those new to D&D-style RPG games will find navigating the various menus and commands a bit irritating.", "- The story was ghastly.", "The intro movie clip didn't make any sense - especially if you are unfamiliar with the world of Greyhawk to begin with.", "There is no clear reason for your character to be embarking on his quest and no real sense while playing that you're accomplishing something signficant.", "Sorry, but the \"go here and do that\" model is too weak.", "Performance:\n\n- the game performed well enough but had several noticable problems.", "Movement in game was confusing and erratic.", "The requirements on the box seem to be adequate but the game didn't feel smooth and seamless.", "Accessing and moving in certain terrains and environments was clumsy and the perspective on screen difficult to manage.", "- If your PC meets the minimum requirements you should have no problems.", "But as always check your video and sound drivers and disable any background programs if this game runs poorly.", "On multiple systems I found VERY different performance levels.", "Take care" ]

[ "Uh, I can't believe the ever popular Squaresoft, the makers of the world loved Final Fantasy series, made a huge dud.", "I'm probably one of the most diehard RPG fans out there, but Unlimited Saga?", "This game is a disgrace!", "I ordered it off amazon and thankfully it did not ship properly.", "So I played it at my friends house.", "I would first like to point out the graphics.", "The anime style animation is a good idea, but not here.", "As soon as you start up the game you will have a hard time looking at it.", "The graphics are all cartoon!", "Moving around is another problem.", "You don't move!", "You point in what direction you want to go, and the screen changes.", "To me that is a whole chunk of RPG that is gone.", "And to move around in towns, you press X on the house you want to enter and your there.", "The battles.", "Oh geez the battles.", "Interesting yet boring.", "You can choose up to 7 attacks to use on one turn using all your characters.", "You can also pick a small number of abilities.", "Then you are done and this spinning reel thing shows up.", "You stop it and attack, either kicking, punching or throwing....", "...", "thats about it.", "Oh, and the enemy attacks!", "Next is sound.", "Thsi category isn't that bad.", "The sounds and music are wonderful.", "The music being very original and colorful.", "The voice acting is very poorly done however.", "There might be 3 characters on the screen and suddenly a voice pops up.", "You can't really tell who it is, mostly because its a cartoon and their lips don't move.", "I'm always bummed to see very bad RPG's.", "They are a waste of money, and you don't really have fun with them.", "Unlimited Saga could have been great.", "Spice up the graphics, add a new battle system, and hire the FFX voice people and this game is golden.", "Sorry Square, but you've built a boat with no paddle.", "Take my word for it and don't buy this game.", "Its not like Square to make a RPG like this.", "I'm just hoping Square will split up with Enix, so they make something worth buying.", "Don't buy this, its not worth the $...", "But if you happen to buy it, the only thing worth seeing is the preview for FFX-2!" ]

[ "well, i have played many 360s and i have to say they are fun, depending on the game being played until they break down.", "i have already been through 6 consoles either because of the dreaded red ring of death, disc drive errors or just not wanting to cooperate in general.", "and then when i get a working system, the disc drive is extremly noisy, so noisy that i have to turn up the volume on my television to the point where my dorm neighbor complains.", "some more bads...", "i have to say that i would take the 360 over the wii anyday, because i am more of the hardcore gamer, but all the accessories will add up to well over 1000 bucks.", "you need that intercooler because the system runs hot.", "i don't need any cooling device fro my ps3.", "secondly, i love watching movies, but the hd dvd attatchment adds 200 bucks right there.", "i have a ps3 and it can play blu rays right out of the box.", "secondly, my 360 has problems getting an internet signal.", "its right next to my ps3 and it gets a signal very clearly while my 360 always says disconnected while after getting it hooked up about 5 times.", "its a big pain not to mention waste of time.", "well, enough of the bads.", "there are lots of games out for the system and i mean alot, way more than for my ps3 or the wii.", "the controller has force feedback while my ps3 has none.", "the final pro in my opinion here is that i have wired controllers.", "it came with a wireless, but i prefer wired.", "i don't have to worry about batteries needing to be charged or a faulty wireless connection which happened with my original xbox.", "it said the conroller's connection could not be detected and it was a pain to get that controller fixed.", "all in all my final ratings\n\nsystem design: 1/10, should be -1.", "it overheats way to easily.", "have had way too many problems.", "ease of use: 3/10.", "internet connection is a pain at times.", "overall fun: 4/5.", "good selection of games for the entire family." ]

[ "It works well as an emergence flashlight / lantern.", "I have used it to charge my iphone and it seems to do a pretty good job getting you out of the \"red\" zone on percentage.", "I don't think the solar panel does much.", "Specs say 0.", "25 watt panel, so that works out to about 50 milliamp charge current.", "Given that the batteries have an 1800 ma-hour capacity, it would take 38 hours of max sunlight to recharge the unit.", "With maybe 8 hours of decent sunlight a day it would take nearly 5 days to recharge.", "I have left mine in the window for a few weeks and forgot about it.", "It was getting about 4 hours of sunlight a day for a few weeks.", "When I went to use it, it was completely dead.", "That is suspicious.", "I don't see any effect on USB voltage when in the sun or shade.", "I suspect it's not charging at all.", "The orange light used to come on when it was in the sun, but no more.", "Someone suspected there is no blocking diode, meaning that the batteries could possibly be draining through the solar panel when not in use.", "I'm beginning to suspect that is true.", "I\n\nIt's still handy to have when traveling, just don't rely on solar charging." ]

[ "Let me start by saying I am a long time die hard Kiss fan, and I own all of their albums on lp,and cd.", "I even have The Orginals 1 and 2.", "As well as every demo they ever did.", "This album is way too disco pop, it sounds like a bad Hall and Oates record.", "( ok Hall and Oates never made a good record)Ace's songs are good but ruined by Vini Poncia's production.", "Shandi isn't bad.", "Naked City is good.", "A poll of Kiss fans showed that She's so European is the worst song Kiss ever did.", "I have listened to this album hundreds of time because it's still Kiss.", "Go ahead and buy it, it is worth buying." ]

[ "This isn't The Interior Castle -\n\nThe translator used the Interior Castle to create a new age interpretation.", "The translator identifies herself in the introduction as a Hindu/Buddhist/Jew.", "There is no reason that someone with that background couldn't make a faithful translation if they had the academic skill.", "However Starr isn't attempting to make a faithful translation, she is attempting to turn a Christian work inside out and make it one-faith-fits-all.", "In the author's own words, she \"took the liberty...", "to soften some of her (Theresa's) more loaded religious vocabulary.", "\"\n\nTheresa is renowned around the world and over the centuries for her PASSION, don't waste your time reading the \"Softened\" version.", "And what is this term \"loaded\" other than an underhanded rejection of the religion that defined the life that Theresa loved, and that contemporary Christians also love.", "The \"Loaded religious terms\" she does away with:\n\nLord\nHoly Trinity\nSin\nEvil\nHell\n\nThe vague words she replaces Christian terms stand out as glaringly wrong and off-putting.", "For instance, she uses the term \"error\" in place of sin.", "Those words aren't synonymous - now if you don't believe sin is real and you don't want to read about the effects of sin, than you probably wouldn't be reading The Interior Castle in the first place.", "As a Christian I found expressions such as \"the soul in a state of error\" ridiculous and distracting.", "So much so that after reading fifty pages I threw the book in the garbage and came to Amazon to find a better translation." ]

[ "In the 70's films such as this were the stable viewing fodder of the middle class intelligentsia.", "Searching for something which was not a Mills and Boon romance or an action adventure movie films such as there were seen as sensative and relevant.", "In reality this film is not about much at all.", "An upper middle class male about to marry holidays with a friend.", "He meets two young women, one ugly (she is not but she has frizzy hair) and another beautiful.", "He desires to touch the knee of the attracitve one but she finds him rather repellent.", "He has a sort of teasing relationship with the other one and messes up her life.", "The end of the film allows our hero to manipulate the grief of Claire so that he can achieve his amibition of touching her knee.", "It is hard know to realise the attraction of this film.", "The dialouge is long winded and tedious.", "The characters talk endlessly but never about anything.", "The attraction of the film is more about the style of the film rather than the content or the form.", "The house in which the action takes place and the country side are beautifull.", "The characters have a sort of sophistication around their life, what they drink, what they eat which has been attractive to those outside France.", "The two female leads are gorgous and the film is well acted.", "The only negative is that it is a boring talkative film which is about a self indulgent bore.", "One sees it and thinks a nuclear war destroying all these characters would not be the end of the world.", "Still some people probably like it." ]

[ "This cover is made of material similar to a nylon light-weight wind-breaker jacket.", "It is not heavy duty as described.", "I had a heavy duty cover made of a canvas-like material with a vinyl undercoat.", "It lasted two years outdoors in the Midwest and then literally fell apart.", "It was relatively heavy and did not blow off the grill in strong winds.", "However, this light weight cover blows up like a balloon in strong winds and needs some help from blowing off the grill.", "It is not as water proof as the heavier cover, but it lasts more that two years it will be worth a four star rating IMO.", "Time will tell.", "Update: The cover lasted 1.", "5 years, two summers and one winter, after which it ripped the length of the top.", "Heavy canvas-like covers I have owened have lasted two years.", "It addition, this material is so light that I had to clip it to the bbq wheels to keep it from blowing away.", "It still blew up like a balloon and water penetrated it easily.", "I have gone back to the two-year canvas type cover.", "That is the best I can find and certainly better than this one." ]

[ "I really dislike how this product page is used for multiple Frued bits and sets.", "I had previously reviewed another set from the drop-down and when I tried to review the glass panel set, my old review came up.", "Dumb.", "This is the first Freud bit/sit that I don't like.", "I have quite a few from them.", "It's a sloppy joint, for starters.", "This is unrelated to adjusting the height.", "The two halves just don't fit tightly at all.", "Crazy.", "Also, I was not happy with their spline.", "I reviewed that separately but I'll include pics of the joint and the spline here." ]

[ "I'm nearly old enough to collect Social Security, so these beans came into existence during my youth.", "As a youth, I remember them tasting smokey, with a little salt pork square in the can.", "They were good hot, not too spicy, not too sweat.", "Now, just last night, my Prime Pantry order arrived and I longingly looked at the can (I ordered 4), decided to open it and have some.", "KETCHUP.", "That's what it tasted like.", "Not at all what I remembered.", "Now, if you have the same experience, fix the stuff by adding just a few drops (no more) of Wright's hickory smoke, offered here at Amazon in quart and gallon sizes.", "That's one of the best food purchases I've ever made, but it's VERY strong.", "So only a few drops (much stronger and better than, say, Colgin).", "Then these beans will begin to taste like they used to.", "Where you find the salt pork, lol I don't know.", "Didn't realize it made such a difference, until now." ]

[ "I've been using Norton Utilities for many many years.", "Starting back in the early macintosh days, and now right up to windows vista.", "What's really sad is to see their product get worse and worse each year.", "But I think this one is the last straw.", "First I had problems with my rebate (for owning a prior version).", "Then I had problems with licensing.", "Although I went through the licensing procedure and registered my product, the backup utility that is part of this got installed as a \"trial\" and kept nagging me until it timed out.", "The product also crashes frequently, and after finally getting my license squared away, then the backup utility refused to work.", "I eventually learned that it had corrupted its internal database, making it useless.", "Honestly, even though it is inexpensive for prior version users to upgrade to this version (assuming they honor their rebate), I still regret doing it.", "I would definitely recommend macafee for security and virus removal, and pretty much anything else for backups.", "It's really sad to see what Symmantec did to this once great product." ]

[ "I am returning these 2 pans.", "The pan burned on first use baking a cake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.", "The longer time period was required since this pan is deeper and holds more batter.", "When I say burned, the pan literally has light black burn marks on the bottom.", "The aluminum also became discolored with white spots everywhere.", "I've owned a lot of Wilton cake pans over the years and none have ever done this.", "I'm guessing Wilton has changed how they make the pans since I last purchased one.", "The cake itself baked fine, height was good and sides did not over cook.", "Cleanup wa super easy with soap and water but when dried it had water spots everywhere.", "Maybe my pans came from a bad batch." ]

[ "I had a prior model the 3100.", "Worked great.", "This one works well too.", "If you are familiar with the great Parrot DSP technology and their frequent bluetooth firmware updates you will like it.", "The problem is the stuff isn't made to last.", "I am on my second display.", "First one went out.", "Now my controller device has gotten flaky to the point where I can't use it.", "It's very delicate and fragile.", "When they went wireless with this controller they lost the reliability of the controls.", "Even when it has a fresh battery (change every 3 months) and working \"well\" it still is not all that responsive and is a big distraction to safe driving.", "If they thing was hard wired it would just work and this problem would be eliminated.", "I'm finally giving up on the Parrot stuff and looking for a new deck that supports Apple Car Play.", "Hopefully that will be more solid." ]

[ "Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a distinguished British author, educator, armchair theologian, and a former atheist.", "\"Mere Christianity\" (first published in 1952) was adapted from a series of talks given Lewis on BBC radio between 1942 and 1944.", "Many Evangelical authors and ministers refer to \"Mere Christianity\" with unqualified high praise.", "Christianity Today even names it as the absolute best religious book of the twentieth century.", "Well, after hearing all the hoopla for many years I finally got around to reading this \"classic\" and I must say I'm surprised by all the adulation.", "There's no doubt Lewis is a wonderful writer and pleads the case for many of the basic tenets of Christianity in an enjoyable let's-discuss-religion-over-a-few-pints-at-the-pub manner.", "But there are more than a few difficulties with Lewis's lowest-common-denominator theology which should give all Evangelicals pause.", "All quotes below are from the Harper Collins 2001 edition which I borrowed from my local library.", "* The author, an Anglo-Catholic, cuts the widest swath possible in his definition of Christianity.", "He is purposefully inclusive, identifying Christianity as a large hallway which has many doors to various denominational rooms (p.", "XV).", "Roman Catholicism, a hybrid of works salvation (sacramentalism, good deeds, and obedience to the law) and grace, is presented as a completely valid branch of Christianity.", "Chuck Colson cited Lewis as the inspiration for his ecumenical Evangelicals and Catholics Together alliance.", "* Lewis is deliberately vague about how one actually becomes a Christian.", "He sets forth three things that \"spread\" the \"Christ-life\" to us: \"baptism, belief, and that mysterious action which different Christians call by different names - Holy Communion, the Mass, the Lord's Supper\" (p.", "61).", "While Lewis confesses that a Methodist friend would prefer more emphasis be given to belief than the two \"sacraments\" as the way to \"Christ-life,\" the author declines to do so.", "Anglicans believe the Holy Spirit is first received at baptism and that Christ is really present in the eucharist.", "Catholics believe that at their mass the priest brings Christ down from heaven to be sacrificed once again under the forms of bread and wine as an offering for the sins of the participants.", "However, God's Word states that priestly sacrifice for sins ended with Jesus's once-for-all-time sacrificial death at Calvary and that He is now seated at the right hand of the Father (Hebrews 1:3 & 10:12), not on Catholic altars as a broken victim.", "* Lewis correctly states that at some point a person on their way to becoming a Christian will realize they cannot merit their way to God but must accept Christ's completely free offer of salvation by the grace of God through faith in Him (p.", "147).", "But how this reconciles with Lewis's sacramentalism is unclear.", "Also, Rome unequivocally condemns the belief of unmerited salvation by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ alone yet Lewis cites Catholicism as a valid branch of Christianity.", "How does that work?", "* Lewis affirms his unscriptural belief in purgatory.", "Putting words into Christ's mouth, Lewis writes, \"Whatever suffering it may cost you in your earthly life, whatever inconceivable purification it may cost you after death, whatever it costs Me, I will never rest, nor let you rest, until you are literally perfect...", "\" (p.", "202).", "Lest anyone believe I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill in regards to this reference, Lewis greatly expounded on his belief in purgatory in other writings.", "* Lewis is an unabashed Universalist: \"There are people in other religions who are being led by God's secret influence to concentrate on those parts of their religion which are in agreement with Christianity, and who thus belong to Christ without knowing it\" (p.", "209).", "Chapter and verse, Clive Staples?", "What about John 14:6?", "But Lewis is not the only Evangelical darling to preach Universalism.", "In a May 31, 1997 interview with ecumenical minister, Robert H.", "Schuller, Billy Graham stated, \"God's purpose for this age is to call out a people for His name.", "And that's what God is doing today, He's calling people out of the world for His name, whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world or the non-believing world.", "They are members of the Body of Christ because they've been called by God.", "They may not even know the name of Jesus but they know in their hearts that they need something that they don't have, and they turn to the only light that they have, and I think that they are saved, and that they're going to be with us in heaven.", "\"\n\n* Lewis endorses evolution in \"Mere Christianity\" and dismisses the penal view of the atonement of Christ (p.", "182).", "In other writings he doubted the inerrancy of Scripture.", "Lewis confessed his sins weekly to Anglican priest, Father Walter Adams, beginning in 1940.", "After Adams' death 1952 Lewis continued the practice of auricular confession with the priests of St.", "Mary Magdalen Church in Oxford.", "C.", "S.", "Lewis's deviation from Biblical orthodoxy on several important issues raises the question of why so many Evangelicals fall over each other to sing the praises of \"Mere Christianity\"?", "The fact that many Roman Catholics have adopted Lewis as one of their own and are convinced he was on the path to joining their religion says volumes.", "Lewis's spiritual mentor, ardent Catholic apologist, G.", "K.", "Chesterton, was certainly no friend of Protestantism.", "My advice is don't waste your time with this wide-is-the-way \"classic.", "\" There are much more doctrinally sound books on the basics of the Christian faith from solid Evangelical authors (e.", "g., John MacArthur, R.", "C.", "Sproul, Alistair Begg, Steve Lawson) that deserve your attention.", "I would neither recommend \"Mere Christianity\" to an unbeliever or a Christian of many years.", "I can only surmise that the undiscerning herd enthusiasm for this book amongst Evangelicals is guided by the same spirit that persuaded Billy Graham to invite Catholic bishops and priests to participate in organizing his later crusades." ]

[ "Really, it's sad that for how long the DS has been out, not even a Pokemon game can be good.", "I'm not a huge Pokemon fan, but I still enjoy the games a lot.", "This isn't much of a Pokemon game at all.", "It has \"Pokemon\" in the title, but this is just a poor excuse for a racing game.", "It's repetative, slow, and doesn't show us what the DS can do.", "The gameplay is already the first strike against the game.", "You control Pikachu through all the races, and the only aspect of the gameplay is...", "well...", "moving the stylus left and right to direct Pikachu where to go.", "That's it!", "There are challenges, and there is a map.", "The entire goal is to pass through all the various checkpoints and win the race.", "Along the way there's water, lava, chasms and other things that get in your way.", "Sometimes, you may need a balloon to help you over some of the obstacles.", "But the problem with the game right off the bat is simple.", "The races, short as they may be, are annoying.", "Especially when you get in a balloon.", "The map is nice, but you have to rely on arrows as you race to point you in the direction to the next checkpoint.", "It's nice to be able to take the balloons, but the arrows don't point you in any direction once you get a balloon.", "You could possibly end up floating in the wrong direction because the map is so large you don't know where to go!", "The extras are even more underlying.", "By loading in one of the GBA pokemon games, you can create tracks shaped like the Pokemon themselves.", "This has little innovation actually, and the regular tracks are already boring enough.", "The graphics aren't up to par with DS standards either.", "Vibrant and colorful, but at the same time fuzzy and lacking detail.", "The audio is no different.", "I'm tired of hearing Pikachu's cute little squeals and whatnot.", "His voice got annoying (as if Pokemon Yellow wasn't bad enough with his voice!", "), and the rest of the audio wasn't great either.", "I turned the volume down in the end.", "Really now, Pokemon games on the handheld systems usually aren't bad.", "Pokemon Red and Blue was incredible, Gold and Silver was even better.", "Pokemon Puzzle League Challenge wasn't such a bad game either.", "But this?", "This is obviously something rushed out so that the DS would have a Pokemon title out within its first couple of months.", "Skip this game.", "Unless you're one hell of a die-hard Pokemon fan, you won't find enjoyment in this one." ]

[ "PRO:\n\n1.", "Arrived on time.", "2.", "Works as advertised.", "3.", "Has dual language stickers.", "4.", "Bright red and two lock holes in case two people want to lock out at the same / different times.", "CON:\n1.", "Plastic, let me say that again, it's PLASTIC!", "2.", "If using for SECURITY reasons, this can be broken off easy.", "3.", "Any padlock can be twisted and break this PLASTIC device off easy.", "4.", "It \"binds\" on itself when you try to use it.", "OTHER:\n1.", "It's plastic.", "So once this breaks by someone trying to steal water from me, I'll have to buy something better / stronger.", "2.", "Read reviews, this one got me, lesson learned.", "3.", "I would have paid more for a metal one." ]

[ "I loved this series of games growing up.", "I finally went and picked this game up.", "I was under the impression that EA had updated the games to run on modern computers.", "I was greatly mistaken.", "--All of the cut-scene animations are not watchable.", "--The CD is still required for play on some of the games in the set.", "--On install you have to input ALL the cd keys for every game at once.", "--EA doesn't release patches for this game anymore, instead they use a community created patch and \"un-officially\" support it by supplying a link to it on their web site.", "This patch broke my install to the point where I had to completely uninstall and delete the files.", "Using the install repair function didn't even work.", "In the end, the 1 star isn't because of the games themselves.", "It is the shoddy work that EA has done.", "They have literally just copy and pasted all the games onto one CD and sold it off as being updated.", "I still have my original Red Alert 2 discs that work the same as this one." ]

[ "I got this at a great price in my gold box and was ecstatic as I have been looking for a gas grill for some time.", "When I unpacked it there were two large chips out of the thin enamel coating on the bottom half of the cooking chamber.", "When I called Char-Broil about a possible replacement, they said that this model has been discontinued, so that is something to be aware of.", "As I was getting near the end of assembly I realized that there were no flame diffusers like all other gas grills I've seen.", "The flame comes up through one tube and heats a round, five inch diameter cast iron plate.", "The heat then radiates from there.", "NOT at all what I call a grill.", "I call that an oven.", "If you are looking to cook over flame, look elsewhere.", "Also, the quality of the product is mediocre at best." ]

[ "The previous version of this bug zapper served me well for over ten years (until the batteries leaked).", "I don't enjoy electrocuting critters, I don't do it for fun, but I can't stand house flies, fruit flies, no-see-ums, silver fish and spiders in the house.", "The zapper is neither too long, nor too heavy and the head is just big and long enough.", "The previous version had one button which worked really well.", "This model has two, supposedly for safety's sake, but placed in awkward positions, one on each side of the handle.", "By the time one figures out hand-placement, the bugs are out of sight.", "Hence, minus one star for that factor.", "Uses 2 AA batteries which will stun big flying bugs, causing them to fall to the ground and fry no-see-ums.", "Trouble waiting to happen for people who allow their kids to use them as toys.", "This is not a toy.", "Note: not sure about the color yellow...", "the bugs seem to know what's coming the second I pick it up.", "07/2015 - racket cracked in neck.", "Quality has definitely gone downhill, the plastic is much more brittle.", "Rated down Looking for replacement.", "Sometimes they should leave well enough alone.", "01/2017 - racket cracked in two.", "Will not be buying another of these.", "Bummer." ]

[ "bet that you don'teven know what a Colt SAA M1873 7.", "5 barrel is or come to that a Whichester M1894 Carbine.", "I doubt if you could tell a SAA M1873 apart from a Colt M1911\"....", "....", "....", "....", "....", "....", "....", "....", "....", "....", "....", ".", "I bet you don't know the difference between a wooden single rubber band firing pistol, and an exciting triple band 'blaster.", "'" ]

[ "NFL Gameday 2001- Bad graphics (Playstation 1 graphics on the Playstation2 system) o.", "k. gameplay\nMadden 2001 The best graphics yet for anything (even computer) Has to be the best gameplay of any football game yet.", "I saw a review of NFL Gameday 2001 in a Playstation magazine....", "and it showed a picture of a quarterback throwing the football...", "The football, as it left the quarterbacks hands traveled right....", "his hand was throwing to the left.", "WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?!", "I don't like putting games down, but buy Madden 2001 first, then rent Gameday 2001 after....", "compare, then write a review for both.", ":-)" ]

[ "I love Indian fiction, and have read a lot of it over the years.", "I also love a fat, meaty book that I can sink my teeth into.", "So imagine my excitement when I found a work of Indian fiction with a mind-boggling number of pages.", "I read the flyleaf, the story was interesting.", "I sat down in the bookstore and read the first few pages and said, yes, this is the book for me.", "I brought it home and dove in.", "700 grueling pages later, I came to the unhappy conclusion that there was just no way I was ever going to finish this book.", "Is it a political story?", "Is it a cultural story?", "It's both.", "Unless you have a fairly serious grounding in Indian politics, you are going to have a rather hard time getting involved in the chapters dealing with the political aspect of this novel.", "The political chapters switch back and forth with the cultural part of the book, and unfortunately, each segment drags on so long, that by the time you get back to the political part, for instance, you don't even remember what's going on, and vice versa.", "The characters are not well-developed, and again, so much time drags on between characters, it's really hard to care about any of them.", "Do I wonder what happens to one character and his hooker friend?", "I did when I first read about them, but after dragging through a lengthy chapter on Indian political processes, not so much.", "Do I hope Lata finds her \"suitable boy\"?", "I guess, but I don't really care.", "There's nothing about these characters to make you care for them.", "You get no sense of what makes them tick.", "There is simply too much going on in this book.", "The author should have worried less about achieving some kind of mass epic and a little more about giving us sympathetic, interesting characters.", "All in all, this book was just awful and I don't recommend it at all." ]

[ "The original COH was great, until this \"expansion\" comes out.", "Opposing Fronts is extremely buggy.", "The game freezes all the time.", "Worse, after you kill the frozen game, it won't recognize your DVD any more.", "So, you have to reinstall it.", "Worse yet, the updates cannot be downloaded into your hard drive, so you will have to wait for the 200MB download every time you do the reinstallation.", "If you think this is frustrating enough, you have not seen half of it yet.", "The Panzer Elite faction in this expansion was made super strong, as in the super human sense.", "Even a newbie playing Panzer Elite can easily, and I mean easily, defeat a veteran of the original game.", "I suppose the vendor wants to make sure you buy the new package instead of staying with the old COH.", "To make sure you absolutely do not have that option, they also force you to play against Panzer Elite in multiplayer setting.", "There is no way to opt out!", "And to add insult to injury, they sell the expansion pack as a \"stand-alone\", i.", "e. full price.", "After I bite the bullet and pay up, I realize that I still cannot get the great gaming experience back because everyone else in the multiplayer lobby wants to play Panzer Elte, and two such players cannot play against each other.", "So, I either have to join the other 17 players in waiting for a clueless cannon fodder to come along, or I have to be that cannon fodder.", "Either way, it is no fun." ]

[ "I have used about half of the CND Shellac colors.", "Although I'm disappointed in the Spring 2013 \"collection\" (if you can call 4 colors and a glitter a collection), I decided to order LIMEADE and Lilac Longing.", "The Lilac I LOVED.", "It is the perfect Easter egg shade of lilac - I can't say enough good things about it.", "But this LIMEADE is an altogether different story.", "It is SO neon and SO annoying to the eye, like radioactive neon, that I could not wait 10 days until my next mani - I had to get it removed within a week.", "If your skin is iffy with neon green, I'd stay away.", "My friends are amused with my variety of color changes every 9-10 days, and usually I get compliments, but LIMEADE got \"2 thumbs down\" across the board.", "I'm now wearing CND Gotcha, a bold medium matte pink, a definite winner.", "I have started requesting 3 thin coats for the best coverage." ]

[ "This product might be better for a small, not too badly weathered piece, but it didn't do much for me.", "I used this kit to try to refinish an 8' long Country Casual teak bench I was given that sat neglected in the Florida sun for 10 years.", "In addition to being bleached almost white, the grain was raised, and as I soon found out some type of green mold or mildew was growing everywhere deep in the grain.", "Optimistically, I applied the 'cleaner' step with a stiff brush and scrubbed and scrubbed, but it had very little effect.", "I thought maybe the 'brightener' would do the job (it smells like the same stuff) but again, little or no results.", "Slept on it and decided to bring out the big guns.", "I pressure cleaned the entire bench with my little 1500 psi electric pressure cleaner.", "I was worried about scarring the wood but was unable to make a mark on it and it worked like I was painting on clean.", "Bench looked 1000% better in about an hour so I let it dry over night.", "Next day I brushed on the pint of (water soluble??", ") 'teak oil'.", "The bench sucked up the entire pint with barely a brown spot after it dried.", "I went to HD and bought a $15 quart of their solvent based teak oil - applied most of that in 3 coats over 2 days and the bench is now beautiful." ]

[ "With my new desire to get back to the unknown, I decided to start at the beginning with a little musical that I heard nothing about, never once caught a tune from a song, nor would think most mainstream video stores will carry.", "\"Absolute Beginners\" was a MTV promotion that was initially destined to be one of the biggest box office films of the year.", "It was a film for the younger generation, a multi-time film that discussed the issues that teens were facing in Britain and how these troubled, constantly hitting each note, teen's problems can relate to the youth of tomorrow.", "It could have been dubbed the \"Moulin Rouge\" of the 80s, but it disappeared.", "It made its very shallow mark on the world, snuck under the radar, and can now be found collecting dust at either the musical section, the comedy section, or the politically obscure section of that seedy video store that doesn't need chain money to survive.", "Alas, that wasn't where I found it - but I found it, watched it, tried my hardest to sing along with it, stared into Bowie's eyes, but found myself faded by the end.", "Did it not survive the test of time?", "Is 1950s London too far removed from our current society?", "Is Bowie too creepy?", "I think \"Absolute Beginners\" falls somewhere into each of these questions as the perfect example of cinema that starts out with a bang, but withers to a mere sparkle by the end.", "\"Absolute Beginners\" opens with a huge number that takes us through the non-gritty streets of London which involve theft nightly, prostitutes on every corner, dance throughout, booze like rivers, and the swankiest ties on nearly every individual.", "Sounds like a place we would all hate to be...", "right?", "Director Julien Temple keeps the mood light and flashy throughout most of the songs as we attempt to learn something about a plethora of our main characters.", "The one we follow most is Colin played by Eddie O'Connell who follows his dreams of being a photographer while shooting his favorite girl, Suzette (played by Patsy Kensit).", "These two have chemistry, and while Suzette looks like a pre-rehab Lohan, to me they worked.", "There was a huge spark between them, the chemistry was like lava, and I believed that these two could take me down a road I had never traveled.", "I was ready - but then, something happened.", "Temple takes us out of the nightlife, takes us out of the city we grew up with at the beginning, and completely reverses the roles without any dedication to the first.", "Suzette runs away, Colin becomes a pervert, and Bowie...", "well...", "I am not quite sure what his role is but he sings amazingly well while climbing a mountain - I can tell you that much.", "Temple gives us this flashy city, this opportunity to see those that inhabit it, but leaves us hanging high and dry when it is time to pull the trigger.", "We learn about Colin, mainly, but nobody else.", "I could probably watch this film again and still be equally confused as to whom is angry at whom, and what importance fashion had to that era.", "Also, were they teens really - they all seemed like they were pushing their late 20s, but maybe it was my TV.", "Character development thrown right out the door, Temple tries to overcompensate by giving us bigger, more lavish songs using even more characters that we know nothing about.", "One of my favorite songs in the film uses this thought as a prime example.", "Temple uses a split house to show us the lives of Colin's parents (of which I didn't know it was them until after the film) and a song which screams apathy.", "Great song, too many characters, not enough time, suddenly dragged into another scene of missing coherency, and it just falls apart in your hands.", "Then, if that wasn't enough, we are rocking our heads to the beat of some great songs, rubbing our noggin' trying to understand where our characters are or are going, and Temple throws in hatred, anger, and politics into the final act.", "While I was hoping that this film would have a dedicated theme, I didn't think racism would be on the top of the bill.", "Suddenly, friends are missing, people are angry, and there is some random guy running around fighting Colin because he lives in poverty and has a friend of a different race?", "Somebody help me out here.", "It seemed completely rushed and overwhelming - nearly to the point of wanting to turn the film off.", "To me, the ending of \"Absolute Beginners\" was nowhere near the excitement from the opening number.", "That first part set the pace, and Temple could not keep up.", "Overall, I must say that Temple can direct a music video, but I don't think he was quite prepared for the feature film.", "I don't think this film will ever make it into full \"cult\" status, and will probably remain unremembered or in the dollar bin for years to come.", "It is a fun film to watch initially, but when we get to that final part, it just explodes from the inside.", "I wanted some cutting edge work, but instead what I found was a freaky Bowie coupled with characters I cared nothing for.", "I could see how this film could relate to the youth of the 80s, but by the end it just felt forced.", "I think everyone in this production should have taken a moment and listened to \"Motivation\" by the ever-freaky Bowie in this film, it may have helped solidify this feature into better cult status.", "I am glad that I watched this film once, but that is all that my small brain can take.", "I loved the way that Temple caught me from the beginning, but he couldn't control his characters (way too many), and the songs didn't seem to match the final moments of the film.", "It came out of nowhere, and it was unwelcomed.", "If this was a film about racism, it needed to be from the beginning.", "\"Absolute Beginners\" was a welcomed adventure, but I don't think I will be dusting this film off in the future.", "Grade: ** out of *****" ]

[ "Unfortunately, the Zoo Med Basking Spot Lamp is the only heat lamp that is compatible with my current aquarium.", "These bulbs last me 1-2 months on average.", "As a result, I stock up on these bulbs in advance.", "I bought a new pack in February 2015.", "After about a month, my heat bulb (from my last pack) burned out.", "This happened to be the day before I was leaving for a 10 day vacation.", "I replaced the bulb with one from the new pack.", "When I returned 10 days later, the bulb was burnt out.", "I replaced it right away with the 2nd bulb from the pack.", "Two hours later, that bulb had burnt out as well.", "I don't know if it was a defective unit or if it is just the nature of the bulbs themselves.", "However, the lamps do work well when the bulbs are actually working.", "Amazon was kind enough to refund my full purchase price without requiring the return of the defective product, although my 30 day return period ended a week prior..", "I would NOT recommend this product.", "Use a different basking spot lamp if your aquarium allows it." ]

[ "Have now had this for several months.", "Works as advertised - for the most part, however a few points:\n1.", "sometimes connecting the wheel can take some work.", "Takes upwards of 15-20 seconds to get it on correctly.", "Should just slide on.", "2.", "when turning the wheel, it does take some work and the appearance is that the turning screw/shaft may have some issues down the road.", "3.", "where the seat props up on the square bar behind it, is starting to cave in.", "Just from sitting upright, this is happening.", "Should have re-enforcement.", "4.", "some instructions on how to stretch with the machine would have been nice/helpful" ]

[ "As an avid Bose fan, I thought this headset would be great, and grabbed one after losing my Plantronics Voyager Legend.", "I was wrong.", "There are several issues with the product:\n\n1) When a call comes in, the headset is very inconsistent in when it picks up on the headset or the phone itself.", "Often times, I had to manually switch back and forth several times to ensure the headset \"engaged\" the call.", "A huge inconvenience.", "2) For whatever reason, calls seem to disconnect (completely, as in a hang-up) at random when the headset is connected.", "I have not had this problem with the phone itself, or with other bluetooth headsets.", "3) In general, the phone seems to have trouble initially finding and connecting to the device each time I use it.", "Also a huge inconvenience.", "Call quality seemed okay, but not knock-your-socks-off Bose audio like most of their other products boast.", "Now I know why Bose seems to have discontinued their efforts in the headset space.", "As a reference, I'm using the Verizon iPhone 6.", "Have had no other issues with it other than this Bose headset." ]

[ "This thing is so bad I'm not even sure where to start.", "The size is off, the fit is off, and the overall design is a huge FAIL!!!!", "!!", "To call this thing a boonie is a slap in the face to all legitimate boonies out there.", "The chin strap came loose within 3 minutes of its arrival.", "And the way they roll this thing up and tie it with the chin strap to ship it should be a crime!!!", "I only gave it one star because you had to give it some rating to write a review.", "In reality it is closer to a -3 stars!!!!", "!", "A complete disappointment!!!" ]

[ "Na.", "Older models of this product far exceeds performance than these newer ones.", "I have two old models and two new ones and the comparison between them is huge.", "These newer models don't seem to charge all the way or run time is less than half of older models.", "Charge light may go out and the switch may not have any effect.", "Bottom line is that when it runs, it is a perfect product for pet owners.", "UPDATE: Two 780s later...", "One would run a reasonable time.", "Second will run 2 minutes and quit after a full night's charge.", "Unit is great, but batteries suck...", "like being very healthy except for the stage 4 cancer.", "Ordering replacement batteries from Shark is stupid as they cost $15 higher than a new vacuum!", "Too bad Shark has not figured this out." ]

[ "It gets off to a promising start.", "Not that far in the future, mankind's next step in evolution creates the New Men.", "Intelligent beyond Old Men's comprehension, they quickly dominate the government ant turn the 100,000-to-1 minority into a ruling class, complete with everything that would have made great conspiracy theories if they weren't true.", "The bulk of the story follows one of the underclass as he becomes radicalized by the rebellious underground.", "But, it's a PKD book, so the little things give it unique texture.", "Like Our Hero's job, carving grooves into bald tires.", "And like the outlawing and public horror of alcohol in favor of amphetamines and a rich assortment of other psychopharmaceuticals.", "And the gangster-like machinations by the head of government.", "It could have gone in any number of directions: the rebellion suppressed, or what happens when the Old Men regained control, or...", "well, pretty much anything except the way it did end, which wasn't much of an ending.", "-- wiredweird" ]

[ "WHy THQ, why?", "After playing this game, i have come to the conclusion that this game is probobly worse then the original Raw for Xbox.", "I will make this review in PRO/CON format as usual.", "Pro:\n\n1.", "Voice over\n\n2.", "Graphics are pretty good in terms of character models\n\n3.", "Blood is realistic looking\n\nCon:\n\n1.", "Tons of glitches\n\n2.", "Game freezes often\n\n3.", "Career mode is way to easy to beat\n\n4.", "Commentators repeat themselves way to much\n\n5.", "Roster is to small (Under 45 superstars)\n\n6.", "Limited gametypes (NO hardcore, WHAT?!", "?!", ")\n\n7.", "Put them in a submission 8 times in a row and you've won.", "8.", "Unbalanced difficulty levels\n\nAs you can see, i would not spend 50 dollars on this game if i were you." ]

[ "I own over ten of these and would love to love them, but cannot.", "Here are the problems I have had:\n\n- Speakon connectors do not properly mate with my power amp (when I am using a PA based on an unpowered mixer), or my&nbsp;<a data-hook=\"product-link-linked\" class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"/Peavey-XR8300-8-Channel-600-watt-Powered-Mixer/dp/B001Q5S99M/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?", "ie=UTF8\">Peavey XR8300 8 Channel 600 watt Powered Mixer</a>&nbsp;connectors.", "In one case I had to use pliers to remove the connector (and I do know how to properly insert and remove Speakon connectors.", ") I believe Pyle may have cut a few corners when sourcing the Speakon connectors.", "- Very high failure rate.", "In my case half of my cables failed.", "Most problems were due to bad soldering on the connectors, which is an easy enough fix, but unsatisfactory from a quality perspective in my opinion.", "If you are handy with a soldering iron and want to invest in a quality Speakon connector like the&nbsp;<a data-hook=\"product-link-linked\" class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"/Neutrik-Speakon-Connector-4-Pole-Inline-Plug-NL4FC/dp/B005EKMGO4/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?", "ie=UTF8\">Neutrik Speakon Connector: 4-Pole Inline Plug NL4FC</a>&nbsp;this cable may be a good deal.", "Personally I am replacing all of mine with a quality, name brand cable, which I should have purchased in the first place." ]

[ "I'm backing off a bit this week after last week's big week.", "Niggles are niggly, especially yesterday when I had to drive to Maidenhead and back for a meeting.", "Worse for my legs than anything else - struggled through a recovery run in the late afternoon.", "RICE last night and my legs are a lot better, but I don't have the work window today to do the planned 14 mile run (lunchtime and evening meetings), so I'll fit in a 6-8 mile run at some point in the day.", "Work is going to be very hectic in the next few months, as the charity I run is merging with another(larger) one.", "Loads of meetings, documents, due diligence, lawyers, accountants, etc.", "etc.", "ontop of my normal job.", "Should all settle down by the end of April - thus potentially ruining my whole training plan for London.", "We'll see.", ".", "Welcome mp , there's some good stuff in this thread, but a lot of other stuff to plough through to get to it - 8 hours might be optimistic!", "By my calculations that's about 40 posts a minute to read.", "Marigold - nice to hear you're reentering the land of the living.", "I reckon I've been virus-free for 10 days now, which might be a record for the last 6 months!" ]

[ "I purchased these for making labels for Christmas cards.", "I bought a new HP All In One 6150 Inkjet printer and this was the first print job.", "It was almost the last.", "The Easy Peel labels peeled off inside the printer and stuck to the paper transport rollers in the printer.", "I figured it was a fluke, spent 30 minutes peeling the labels off the rollers (difficult access).", "I took another label sheet, verified that nothing was delaminating and went for it again.", "Worse disaster this time.", "More labels came off and adhered to the roller again and this time the the printhead unit.", "This cleanup was 45 minutes plus new print cartridges.", "I contacted Avery via their customer satisfaction web page twice and they have failed to respond - no doubt they are aware of the problem and refuse to recognize it publically.", "I ultimately was able to print my labels using a Canon printer with simple direct path feed with no problems.", "I would speculate that any printer which is not direct linear feed will have the same problem and should not be used with any of the Avery Easy Peel products." ]

[ "I bought this air hose under the impression it was a genuine goodyear air hose.", "It's not; it's a knockoff.", "The hose may or may not work fine, but it's not a goodyear hose.", "&nbsp;<a data-hook=\"product-link-linked\" class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"/This/dp/B0038M4ZMQ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?", "ie=UTF8\">This</a>&nbsp;is a genuine goodyear air hose.", "This was confirmed by the manufacturer of the real hoses; see hobbler's 1 star review and check the comments.", "I didn't suspect much until I got the hose and noticed a couple of things.", "Though it seems to be hit or miss, the fittings on mine were mis-threaded as well.", "I tried to attach this hose to a hose reel and the fitting was very difficult to thread and only went on a few turns before not being able to go any further, even with a wrench.", "Also, the hose itself did NOT have the Mit diamond trademark signifying a genuine goodyear hose, and the goodyear markings that are there were put on sloppily and were starting to rub off.", "Like I said, the hose may or may not work fine; I couldn't get mine threaded to even try it so 1 star.", "Others seem happy with it, and that's great, but I don't like to be duped.", "Don't sell me a harbor freight hose at goodyear prices.", "The genuine goodyear hose is only eight bucks more so I bought one of those and this one is en router back to amazon for a refund.", "Amazon needs to get on the ball with these counterfeit items.", "I had a similar experience with a belkin USB cable, where it was supposed to be belkin, yet the cable was absolute garbage, extremely generic and anorexicly thin." ]

[ "Hey I got a song for ya Randy.", "Maybe this one will hit home with ya,since you like to judge everybody with your song thats on this album....", "\"If you walk into a store drunk and naked,then demand cigarettes from the cashier,you ain't right.", "If you get into a fight with your girlfriend's ex boyfriend in a church parking lot,and he kicks your ass...", "you ain't right.", "Then you look like a dork with a black eye and cuts all over your face in your mugshot...", "you ain't right.", "If you are found drunk and in your birthday suit,then the cops come to arrest you,and you threaten their lives...", "you ain't right.", "\" Overall,if you're a hypocrite like Randy Travis,who likes to preach to people in your music,then you go out and do the things you say are wrong....", "you ain't right." ]

[ "Being somewhat large is not a problem.", "better then too small, wind would blow it off though.", "The quality of the hat sucks.", "The brim is so flimsy it arrived with a big crease in it that's sitting under a stack of books now hoping it will be ok.", "If not its being returned its that bad.", "The Velcro used to hold sides up look stupid and most likely used to cut production costs.", "Duluth uses quality snaps.", "If your looking to spend this kind of money for a hat check out Duluth trading.", "They will give you the quality you expect.", "I am adding edit to this review.", "I just received another hat made by same manufacturer but supplied by another vendor.", "The current order arrived in a sealed plastic bag with a cardboard insert reinforcing and protecting the hat from possible damage.", "This hat I am reviewing now Did not include any packaging other then the box it came in with other ordered items.", "Leaves me to wonder if they sold me a used hat.", "One that was returned for the very same reason that is obvious to anyone.", "Anyone received this hat without the cardboard brim protect and manufacturers plastic bag (separate from shippers bag)?", "Curious Thanks." ]

[ "Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), the sequel to 1994's action hit Speed, is missing two crucial elements, the star power of Keanu Reeves (The Matrix), and a credible story.", "Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) returns to reprise her role as Annie Porter, but without Reeves, the results are nowhere near the same.", "Jan de Bont, who directed Speed, contributed to the story for Speed 2, and also returns to direct and produce, what is an average at best, action thriller.", "Two years have passed, and Annie's romance with Jack Traven (Reeves) has fizzled.", "Things are a little shaky with her current boyfriend, Alex Shaw (Jason Patric), an officer on the LAPD SWAT team.", "The couple hope that a trip on the Caribbean cruise ship Seabourn Legend, will rekindle their romance.", "Willem Dafoe (To Live and Die in LA) is John Geiger, a disgruntled software engineer, who wants revenge against the cruise line for firing him.", "Having designed the computer system used to pilot the ship, Geiger is able to seize control of the vessel.", "Speed 2 has some major credibility issues.", "Regardless of computer controls, it is impossible for one man to operate an entire cruise liner via remote control.", "Shortly after Geiger assumes control, most of the passengers are apparently evacuated onto three lifeboats and some rafts.", "With maybe one exception, the ship's crew are totally incompetent half wits who do almost nothing productive.", "Shaw knows nothing about the ship, yet he takes command of the situation.", "While Alex is busy chasing Geiger, Annie is with a group of passengers trying to find safety.", "The rather tenuous link to the `speed' theme arises, because the ship's engines can't be stopped, and the course can't be altered.", "Several scenes that involve Alex in the water, when the ship is supposedly traveling at high speed, look ridiculous, as the ship appears to be barely moving.", "In an absolutely insane move, Alex goes underwater to try and slow down a propeller.", "By rights, he should have been sucked into the blades and cut to bits.", "Geiger abandons the Seabourn Legend, taking Annie as a hostage, leaving the ship locked on a collision course with an oil tanker.", "Shaw again takes the lead, diverting the runaway ship, which in a nicely done scene, skids off the tanker.", "The ship is now headed toward the shore, where it splinters a pier, and then rams through buildings, before grinding to a stop.", "The film's final action sequence involving a boat chase, and an airplane, is poorly conceived and executed.", "Prior to directing and producing, Jan de Bont's was a cinematographer of some note, working on films that included Die Hard (1988), and Basic Instinct (1992).", "While Speed 2 contains a couple of well executed action sequences, several others are poorly done.", "Unfortunately, it takes more than a ship crunching onshore, to make a great movie.", "The story setup is not bad, but things veer off course rapidly once Geiger's plot begins.", "Willem Dafoe brings mania and wild expressions to his role, but expecting him to carry so much himself, is asking too much.", "The attempt to use Sandra Bullock as a springboard, fails mainly because of a weak script, and frankly a lack of star power.", "Bullock is in a complementary role, and needed a suitable partner for her quirky (and at times annoying), personality to work, and Jason Patric was not a very good match.", "This is an action movie, and their few action scenes together, don't play very well.", "Speed 2 does entertain at some level, but falls short of the original in most respects." ]

[ "As with all of Crichton's work, this one is extremely well researched, and makes some complicated and rather futuristic science accessible to a broader range of the public.", "It also conveys the reader along its suspenseful plot with eager turns of the page (you'll be able to turn through this one during a typical flight).", "However, it's also characteristic of Crichton's recent novels - pedantic, almost as if it's written for imbeciles, leaving no suspense except to find out what's going to _happen_ next - rather than what the characters (and readers) are going to _learn_ next.", "I don't think the first person narrative helps with this problem.", "For people who have done absolutely no reading about emergent systems, biological models for technology, or nanotechnology, this book may be a good primer.", "(Though I believe it needed a stronger editor, I prefer Neal Stephenson's _The Diamond Age_ as a more prophetic vision of the dangers of nanotechnology.", ") Crichton's _Prey_ treats its readers as if they're not smart enough to put together some pretty obvious connections, and then strays off its solid science to a rather frivolous - and painfully, incessantly telegraphed - fright for an ending.", "As with his dinosaur books, Crichton appears to be writing a screenplay rather than a novel.", "And, frankly, _West World_ and the terrifically underrated _Looker_ and _Runaway_ were much better examples of his skill in that arena.", "For readers interested in well written and solidly plotted science thrillers, I'd recommend Crichton's earlier work, such as _The Andromeda Strain_ and _The Terminal Man_, or Neal Stephenson's _Cryptonomicon_." ]

[ "Just got these...", "tried one and just finihed chewing and chewing.", "OK...", "the coconut is barely discernable but the real problem is....", "at least for me....", "the granola part which is really a substaintial part of this bar, is so bad....", "it is like chewing on STALE dry crumbs (big crumbs)....", "with absolutely no taste and the texture is awful....", "there is no substance to them at all for god's sake....", "dry, dry like???", "crackly \"air bubbles\"....", "sorry,,,am trying to be as precise as possible.", "Will NOT order these again not to mention that the box was totyally smashed,,,which is a first.", "They also tasted STALE!!", "Amazon is getting to big for their britches,,,,less and less quality!!!" ]

[ "Unlike a lot of readers, I found the first 100 or so pages of this book so boring and vague that I just quit reading it.", "To me, it wasn't a case of a lousy plot or a boring subject matter, it was the way O'Brian writes.", "Far far too much nautical jargon from another era which turned me off.", "Yeah, give me some jargon to set the atmosphere, but ye gods, how much do I need?", "It's hard enough to keep all the sails and lines straight -- now I gotta figure out all the arcanities of the English of the times.", "It's just more than I wish to take on in a book that I read for recreation.", "A book that leads to a whole series.", "If you don't like the way the author is writing, there's little sense, it seems to me, to plow ahead because you know the book probably will not improve, according to your liking.", "In other words, it's not that it's a lousy book -- probably far from it -- it's just that I don't feel like doing the work.", "I'll stick to hornblower and a couple of other sea-scribes (that would include Nicholas Monserrat) and I'll leave Patrick O'Brian to his many legions of fans.", "I won't be missed." ]

[ "I got this book out of the library after hearing the series highly recommended by a friend of mine.", "I was severly disappointed!", "While the plot is sort of interesting (if you take away the excessively cheesy romance parts), this book is so full of fantasy cliches and poor writing that it was difficult to make myself finish it.", "Even with a good plot, it's hard to focus on it when characters are saying \"Ye Gods!", "\" every five sentences.", "The glossary and language references are completely unnecessary and make it look like the author was trying too hard.", "Why bother making up words (like \"Wyrd\") when perfectly reasonable ones exist for the concept?", "Why use a word like \"dweomer\" which is completely unpronounceable, in addition to looking ridiculous?", "Honestly the writing reminded me of fantasy stories I wrote myself when I was 14 or so.", "I can imagine if you are around that age, this would probably be a pretty enjoyable and interesting book.", "But if your literary tastes are more refined, it's hard to get past the writing style." ]

[ "Okay, I've been a fan of the tony hawk series since the very first one came out for ps1.", "Since then I've counted the days down til the next installment in the series.", "All of them have been amazing.", "Project 8 in comparison to the previous titles is HORRIBLE.", "This game feels like something that Neversoft threw together in 20 minutes so they could make some quick cash.", "The majority of things that made the past titles great, have been taken out.", "Wtf???", "NO create a park mode.", "Almost no mini-games.", "The create your own skater mode has been toned down too.", "You have to earn almost all the tricks you're gonna use.", "The levels are uninspired and boring.", "The graphics aren't the best either.", "The only new thing they added is the slow motion effect where you can flip the board in slow motion.", "Thing is, it's REALLY HARD to land any of these tricks!", "There aren't that many levels either.", "And they only include ONE level from the early series.", "Buy this ONLY if you're OCD and have to own EVERYTHING that tony hawk has put out." ]

[ "Though adequate as a replacement for an APS pocket point-and-shoot, this camera has several drawbacks that should give pause.", "The too-clever signature Coolpix \"twist\" to expose the lens takes just that much longer and is just that much more fiddly than simply removing a lens cap--and one misses too many photos as a result.", "A sliding cover would have served much better, especially one that also turns the camera on.", "(The twist doesn't turn the camera on, that's a distinct step.", ") Controls, menus, and features are generally good, as is the LCD, but the power switch is easy to leave in the wrong state and is poorly constructed.", "Sadly, the real failing of this camera is its image quality.", "Maybe I'm comparing apples to oranges, but when I bought this as an easier to carry substitute for my Olympus C-3040Z I was prepared to loose some quality for the sake of convenience.", "However I was not prepared for the glaring failings I encountered.", "First off, Nikon compresses its highest quality images more than is necessary.", "Far worse are the strange washed-out or saturated colors I get with this camera.", "In side by side comparisons between my two digital cameras, where the Olympus produces striking results, the Nikon's are consistently over-saturated and blurry.", "I have taken both cameras on several trips, and find myself discarding almost every shot taken with the Nikon, even when I have no equivalent from my Olympus.", "Overall, a convenience not worth the disappointment." ]

[ "The best baseball game I've ever laid my hands on, but it still has a lot of improving to do.", "Due to all the work that I think needs to be done....", "it only gets 2 stars from me.", "For one, game play is difficult.", "But that's cool.", "Because that's realistic.", "Practice.", "Practice.", "Practice.", "A lot of things have been done well.", "The players come to the plate, and you can tell who they are by looking at their faces.", "The movements and throws are very realistic.", "The atmosphere is sharp.", "The game keeps track of league leaders and league stats.", "You have a realistic farm team to work with.", "Send guys down...", "bring guys up.", "The thing that thrills me the most is the franchise mode.", "Very cool.", "I liked playing PC games more than game system games for that very reason in the past...", "but times change.", "Downfalls...", "AND THERE ARE A LOT!!", "There are a lot of animation glitches.", "Outfielders will wait till the last second and then start to run and make an over-the-shoulder catch almost EVERYTIME.", "When stealing or outfielders throwing people out at bases, the way the tag looks means nothing.", "The animation is off.", "Players will tag the ground on the wrong side of the base and still call guys out.", "Walks are very rare.", "I think I've played 35 games and my pitchers maybe have 5 or 6 walks AS A TEAM (note: I just manage).", "I play in manager mode, because that's more fun for me.", "Yet, there is no way to pitch-out or pitch around.", "I get a two-strike count to somebody like Bonds or Sosa...", "you pitch around, yet there's no way to control that.", "The manual says L2 & R2 are pitch out and brush back, respectively.", "NOPE.", "They're both brush back pitches and brush backs usually make contact.", "There is no way to do instant replay.", "There's an automatic instant replay after EVERY play (even pop ups), but there's no way to control it.", "You can only hit a button to skip it.", "Finally, and what I think is the most important, is there is no drama in the commentary.", "You'll crush a long enough to be a homerun down the line that might be..", "could be...", "a homerun, but the computer instantly tells you...", "foul ball.", "Too many baseball games soup up the power numbers and I don't care for that.", "I'm one of those guys that likes baseball exactly the way it is.", "This game does that too, but from what I understand, not as bad as others.", "Oh, one more thing...", "the computer changes your lineup without your authorization.", "You'll set it, start the game and find that the computer has rearrange things and even started other people.", "This severely pisses me off.", "Despite all that, it's still the best baseball game I've seen.", "There's A LOT of work to be done...", "but this is definately a step in the right direction." ]

[ "I bought this kit to test soil from my lawn and garden hoping it would provide a general idea of next steps to improve the situation.", "The kit itself is fairly straightforward.", "4 plastic containers (1 PH, 1 N, 1 P, 1K) and 40 test tablets, 10 for each container.", "Instructions are printed on the inside of the packaging, which means you'll need to keep it around.", "I would prefer smaller, separate instructions so I could recycle the packaging.", "They included other materials anyway, why not just add the instructions there?", "I used the PH test but question the results.", "Last year I brought a soil sample into a local feed store where they ran a test and confirmed that we have very acidic soil, somewhere in the nature of 5.", "5. I added a little bit of lime (nowhere near the recommended amount), which MIGHT have increased it minimally.", "Testing my soil yesterday, results suggest that my soil is now neutral, most likely alkaline (7.", "5 plus).", "I highly doubt that is the case because of the previous test and the presence of specific weeds which typically indicate acidic soil.", "I'll give this kit a few more tries to see if it was a one time anomaly, but first impressions for it are not good.", "Also be warned, it can be difficult to gauge where you rank on the color chart.", "I'm pretty sure the test was suggesting that my soil is alkaline, but the color was light enough to where it could be neutral.", "The problem being, if it is alkaline you would want to add something, sulfur I think, to bring the soil closer to 7.", "However, if it is truly neutral, then maybe a dash of compost for good measure.", "If the test is entirely wrong and my soil is acidic, which I believe to be the case, then adding anything to lower the Ph could be disastrous for the lawn and plants." ]

[ "Wow, I hate to be the dissenter amongst what so far, has been very good reviews on this compilation of erotica shorts, but I was sorely disappointed.", "The worst of my disappointment stems from the underlying \"female empowerment\" theme of more than half of the stories.", "This tone was so invasive to me that if it weren't for the title, I would have gone looking for it in the \"women's studies\" section.", "Don't get me wrong, this is erotica, but 1) it's VERY soft erotica (I'm talking cotton candy), 2) in my opinion it's geared more specifically towards women, and within that group, more specifically towards women with milder preferences, 3) the \"erotica\" component of most of the stories seem ancillary to the \"I am woman here me roar\" or \"I am becoming woman, here me roar\" theme.", "I'm not sure how to explain it better without spoiling the stories within, but suffice it say that there is something about the characters in most of the stories that not only turned me off, it made me feel like going out and burning all my bras.", "Yuck.", "On the bright side, even though each of these stories is written by a different author, I was very pleasantly surprised to find that each story was fairly well written (albeit somewhat bland) and fairly well edited.", "Unfortunately, that's as much praise as I can lavish on this compilation.", "For me, the door is wide open as far as what I can enjoy in the erotica genre, but I need to have at least ONE of these things to enjoy the story: 1) well-done erotic elements that elicit either a visceral or mental reaction, or 2) exciting elements that keep me turning the pages either for the sake of the story or because I love the characters, or 3) stellar writing talent.", "I didn't get any of those.", "Judging by the positive reviews here, there is clearly a market for this book, I'm just not a part of it." ]

[ "I will NOT be purchasing this DVD from Paramount.", "They are not known for producing good DVD's, and now we can see why.", "Why would an American film be released with FEWER discs than Latin America and Britain will get???", "Actually, when you look at the extras that are included on all 4 discs, it is not really impressive.", "How can a historical fiction story of one of the most memorable disasters of all time be released in a \"special edition\" DVD with no documentary of the actual tragedy???", "When I look at the extras that are on the 4th DVD, I really don't think we're missing much.", "But what could Paramount have done with that 4th disc????", "They could have had one disc about the making of the film, and another disc about the actual tragedy.", "Now THAT would have been an awesome DVD presentation.", "Paramount needs to take some lessons from a studio such as Warner Brothers who REALLY knows how to pull out all the stops when producing special editions of classic films.", "Instead of purchasing a special effects extraveganza that is given mediocre treatment on DVD, why not spend your money on the 3-disc set of the Wizard of Oz from Warner Brothers???", "Check out the list of features on that DVD set, and you'll see the treatment a TRUE classic film should receive.", "I've waited 6 years for a decent DVD release of Titanic, I guess I'll have to wait a few more.", "Maybe 20th Century Fox will produce the Ultimate Edition later on.", "After all, they have a pretty good track record of some excellent DVD special editions (e.", "g. Alien Quadrilogy).", "Until then, I'm off to see the Wizard....", "YES!!!!", "!!" ]

[ "I was impressed with this unit until I saw that Panasonic sells 2 even better models they do not offer Americans.", "It is impossible to give this unit any stars when it is KNOWN to be a bottom of barrel Panasonic option.", "I'm not flying to London to buy the improved models but I am also not buying Panasonic American version of the bottom of the barrel option either.", "I purchased a Zojirushi who to my knowledge offer their Asian, European AND American customers the same excellent options.", "Amazon United Kingdom has the below unit.", "Does the American version have a fruit and nut dispenser and 11 modes?", "Is this the same Panasonic unit that Amazon United Kingdom sells to Europeans??", "Does this \"American version\" have the same options as the European model?", "We can thank the EPA and the other government bureaucrats for the US consumer not getting the best products.", "It costs a fortune and takes forever for companies to cut through the red tape.", "Google\nPanasonic SD-2501WXC Automatic Breadmaker with Nut & Raisin Dispenser & Gluten Free Program\nTechnical Details\n\n11 Bread & Dough Modes\nRaisin Nut Dispenser\nJam and Compote Mode\n3 Different Loaf Sizes\n100% Gluten Free Bread Mode\n\nBut even if you purchased a $30 transformer to run one, Amazon UK ships to around 30 countries but not to the USA." ]

[ "I love the \"call of duty\" games in general, so I bought this version for the wii.", "It is abhorrent.", "The controls are often backwards, and change from scene to scene, such as when spotting enemies for a tank in the beginning, you have to use the minus(-) button to \"fire\" but later on, it is a different button.", "When using mortars and anti-tank guns, you have to rotate the wii controller to position the gun to fire, and it always seems backwards from what it should be.", "The heavy machine guns don't aim like the real thing, and they are useless compared to the normal machine guns, such as the Thompson or the MP30.", "Maps: If you aren't paying attention, it is easy to get turned around and have to wander a bit to find the location that you are supposed to be at.", "Fighting Mode: Absolutely idiotic.", "there are I think, three places in the game where you have to fight an opponent, and the controls for it are nothing like what you would actually do...", "and you cannot avoid these fights.", "The first time I encountered it, I had a heck of a time figuring out what the on screen directions were trying to tell me to do, so I ended up swinging the remotes wildly in all directions till I found something that worked.", "It wasn't anything like what the on screen directions were indicating at all.", "You can not fight any other characters in the game in this way, only those three enemies.", "The arrow keys - Controls for grenades, switching guns, and fighting - often do whatever the want, so you end up throwing a grenade instead of switching guns.", "Sensitivity: needed to be adjusted almost all the way off in order to keep from spinning wildly around when turning.", "You would think that you would only have to adjust if the controller was too slow or something.", "Shooting: you can shoot the enemy in the head three or four times, and he just gets right back up, but if he shoots you twice, you're done for.", "This sometimes flip-flops around, and you suddenly find that you can take 30 hits before dying.", "It is not relevant to what level of the game you are on either, i.", "e. it doesn't necessarily get harder the further you go.", "Tanks and Jeeps: the controls for these are quite different, and the tank is idiotically hard to drive.", "I ended up holding down the button to align the tank to the turret, all the way through, just so I could drive it correctly.", "The ending: What a let down.", "I was waiting for the \"Final Battle\" when I realized it was already all over.", "My final real pet peeve: I don't like having to sit through the cut-scenes(movies), that's what I buy movies for, not video games.", "Seriously, HALF of the game you are sitting through these, and you can't push a button to skip them.", "The storyline that they are attempting to create is stupid, and has little continuity.", "It goes like this: Cut-scene....", "walk into a building...", "cut-scene....", "..", "fire at enemies for 3 minutes....", "..", "cut-scene....", "..", "walk into another building and fight for 3 minutes....", "....", ".", "cut-scene....", "Sigh.", "I just have to wonder who it is that makes the final decision on these games sometimes....", "was it the head of the \"Art Department\"????", "????", "?", "EVERY SINGLE game that has these, there are always people complaining about them, and yet - they keep putting them in.", "I thought the object of making video games was to SELL THEM, NOT TO ANNOY YOUR CUSTOMERS.", "On other versions of this game (on the P.", "C.) the only real problem I had were the movies.", "The game itself was good.", "This game just blows." ]

[ "I bought this lovely waffle iron in a pinch, needing a second iron for a brunch party - and its crisp modular design wooed me away from purchasing a second Hoffritz.", "This machine makes a great panini grill with the optional grill plates, does a good job with keeping bacon mess to a roar with the griddle plates, and makes a fair grilled cheese.", "It does not, however, make good waffles.", "\"The Best\" team of chefs, the ones famous for testing all sorts of equipment and then choosing the best one, HATED this machine for all the same reasons I am luke warm about it:\n - Lousy heat recovery.", "The iron recovers slowly after adding batter.", "- Uneven heat.", "The top is consistantly lighter than the bottom.", "- Low overall temp.", "Waffles don't get cooked fast enough so they get cakey.", "- The top edges of the iron never fill with batter because of the lower temp.", "Since none of these issues are present in my Hoffritz quad waffle machine, nor my 2 waffle Villaware, I have to assume that this multipurpose model was designed to do too many things and the quality of the waffles was sacrificed.", "As a general purpose hot sandwich machine, it does pretty well.", "It is very good looking, is easy to use, easy to clean, and easy to store - but for waffles, the Hoffritz is better." ]

[ "I can't say I wasn't warned by the other reviewers.", "And I'm not blaming the seller.", "I believe the card I received would have worked in an older phone.", "I was able to register the sim card with T-mobile.", "However it would not work in my phone even when I cut the cardboard down to make it fit in the slot.", "If you have a newer t-mobile phone.", "Or maybe even if you have an older t-mobile phone that you need a sim card for just go to a local t-mobile.", "They'll give you a new one for free, put it in, and activate it for you.", "I guess where I got confused was that last time I ordered a t-mobile sim card from T-mobile it cost me about $7.", "00 with shipping, so I thought I was getting a deal here." ]

[ "Build quality is cheap, as expected.", "Of course, I still expected the gauge to be useful but it is not!", "It's almost 10 psi off.", "Against several other known good gauges I have this one reads high.", "So far my clip hasn't failed.", "Of course it doesn't come with the connector for the air hose - how would they know which style you have?", "Now I have to find a replacement gauge.", "Likely will have to re-tap for a larger thread, as I cannot find a replacement gauge that fits the current threads.", "Charge me 2$ more and use a better gauge - I'd be much happier!", "2 stars - since other than the gauge it works." ]

[ "This is a very versatile unit that can be a portable base for many different applications.", "However, it is most ill-suited to its advertised function, namely, that of a keyboard stand.", "I bought the stand to use with a Yamaha Motif XF8, which is a heavy (appx 70 lbs) full sized 88 key workstation.", "I thought that the four legs and table platform would do the job for supporting such a keyboard.", "Not so.", "The legs are thin and appear fragile.", "They splay outwards, and during the short period of time that I allowed the XF to remain on top, I noticed the legs to slide, or at least shift position, on the hardwood floor.", "On top of that, whenever I played the Motif, I could feel the stand moving under the weight of the unit, and the additional pressure fluctuations of my playing.", "Like a frightened schoolboy with shaking knees, this one just couldn't take it.", "Maybe this stand can really hold its advertised weight, but I certainly wasn't going to wait and find out that it could not.", "Maybe a very light keyboard will be stable on top of this, or maybe a sewing machine or an ironing board, but not a large keyboard.", "I sent this one back." ]

[ "Bring in the NASA folks to understand these directions...", "you got to lay 3 cards here and 4 cards there and hold 6 cards and remember this litany of 'hog washes' and 'ewe turns' and so forth...", "just no fun--I've read the instructions 10 times--still not getting it...", "here's a typlical excerpt: '...", "draw 1 card (unless you do a ewe turn and then you switch hands and turn backward) then proceed counter clockwise starting from youngest to oldest...", "here is the pile you are trying to get rid of...", "after everyone has used up all of their cards, the person with no cards left (one having gone out first) can draw 3 pigs, the person going out next (not the winner, the one who went out after the first place person) can draw 2 pigs...", "'.", "Anyway--not kidding, there are 200 sets of '( )' in these directions.", "It's no fun...", "break out the old maid." ]

[ "Make no bones about it, I love ELP, but not this effort, and it has nothing to do with Cozy \"I'm dead now\" Powell replacing Carl Palmer.", "Powell is/was just as good as Palmer albeit they have different styles (Powell being a thunder and lightening drummer while Palmer is a true geek technical wizard) but the somgs don't add up here.", "The single \"Touch and GO\" draws the listener in with the promise of severe melodies to come, but they never come.", "That's the problem with the whole effort....", "....", "melodies.", "They just aren't up to snuff as with previous ELP efforts.", "Progressive bands rely heavily on melodies to carry the weight of their flighty musical directions.", "Great melodies give satisfaction to the listener who craves a complex melody to go along with their top notch musical ideas, which is the stock-and-trade of prog-rock bands, and this is what sinks this effort.", "The fact that they disbanded soon after proved that the band itself saw no need to try and progress any further with this lineup." ]

[ "Sure, flour never stuck to this rolling pin, but do you know what did?", "Everything I was ever rolling out!", "Pie crust, cookie dough, biscuits, cinnamon bun dough, you name it!", "This was the first rolling pin I ever bought.", "I decided on it because it was nonstick (how could anything stick to something nonstick), dishwasher safe, and I had a Bed Bath and Beyond coupon (a motivating force behind goodness knows how many questionable kitchen purchases of mine).", "Well, yes, it is nonstick coated, and yes, I did save 20% off the purchase price, but I would actively dread using this rolling pin.", "When Christmas started getting close, I would, no lie, think about how much I was going to hate rolling out cookies.", "The barrel filled with water in the dishwasher and took quite a while to dry out.", "It did not roll as smoothly as I would have liked, and I still had to really press into cold dough to get it to roll out properly (only to have said dough stick to the rolling pin, so I guess it didn't matter).", "I also somehow managed to get a massive dent in it near the handle.", "Still not sure how that happened, but it made using it even more fun.", "Finally, I recently broke and bought a new wooden rolling pin, and my baking life has since dramatically improved.", "If your top priority is dishwasher-safeness, then yes, buy this rolling pin.", "If ease and pleasure in use is your top priority, look elsewhere." ]

[ "Did one review just after receiving the knife (see elsewhere) and I said I liked it pretty well.", "After about a month, the blade broke in 2 places!", "Sent it back and Amazon credited my account.", "Guess I'll go back to using my grandmother's Old Hickory knives.", "Never had any of them break and they are older than I am.", "Don't buy this knife if you're looking for something that will last.", "The reason I bought in was that the advertising said things cut by the knife would not stick to the blade....", "WRONG....", ".", "they do stick" ]

[ "Seeing as how someone has already reviewed the game pretty completely I will just add to it instead of covering everything\n\nI have to say I am a little disappointed with this game.", "I love Family Guy and really was looking forward to a fun romp with the characters.", "However the game emulates the Simpsons poor offerings instead of Beavis and Buttheads hilarious adventure game for the PC.", "In my honest opinion the biggest problem with the game is I think it's not finished.", "Like most games from 2K labs the game seems glitchy and kind of raw instead of the polished products from other marquee studios.", "For instance, the graphics are fine but the cut scenes do not mesh at all.", "I understand if there is loading times however there is no flow.", "Sometimes a cut scene will happen and it seems to have absolutely no continuity with the game at all.", "More so there are plenty of clipping and sight issues.", "The camera in Brians levels is downright awful since you can't move it and Stewies levels are 3-D so your depth perception gets lost when trying tricky platform jumps.", "This isn't so bad except when you are jumping over fluids that kill you.", "Another sign that the game was poorly tested is the mini games themselves.", "The games load out of nowhere and offer you about 2 seconds to read the instructions.", "You then have about another 3 seconds to figure out exactly what you are supposed to do then do it.", "Some games are easy enough (just hit the button it tells you to, etc...", ") but others you will fail fast just from the lightning fast reflexes you need from figuring the game out and doing it.", "This isn't an issue if you die and then go back because over time you will learn it.", "That leads me to another issue.", "You will die in this game.", "A lot!", "Brians levels are all trial and error, just learning the board and how to manuever it.", "Each character is on a set track and like Metal Gear you need to study their movements and run around them without being seen.", "Sounds easy and it mostly is but it gets old FAST.", "That is all he does too.", "Each level is just another set of rooms you need to get through.", "Some are difficult some are easy.", "But beyond the odd costume you get there really is no variation to his game.", "Peter's levels play like Streets of Rage or Final Fight.", "A nice retro aspect but Peter's game gets boring quick.", "He basically can kick and punch.", "he learns a few additional moves but nothing spectacular.", "And there really are only 5 different enemies and a couple bosses they are just recycled over and over in different quantities.", "Also there are only several rooms per level just asthetically changed.", "Nothing special at all.", "My biggest gripe with Peter's levels are that they are just freaking hard.", "Add in monotonous and you have a bad combination.", "Peter is not very strong and his health is drained fairly quickly.", "Add in the fact that even when you are attacking an enemy he can still hit you so you are going to take a lot of damage.", "The difficulty is compunded by the limited supply of health in some rooms and the sheer number of enemies they throw at you at once.", "In later levels you will fight 5 or more of the harder enemies at once.", "Two of them can kill you pretty quickly so it just gets super repetative and frustrating after a while.", "Finally each enemy has a certain way it must be killed making the game even more ridiculous.", "For instance a kid has to be kicked while adults have to be punched and cops need to be kicked repetatively then stomped and then Swat members need to be swept.", "This is ok but when you are fighting one of each it means you can only damage certain enemies with punches etc...", "Thus the game allows you to be beat on far too easily.", "Lastly is Stewie's levels.", "They are the most fun both gameplay wise and comedy wise.", "Stewie has a couple guns and his game is a pretty standard platform game.", "Nothing too ridiculous just the same run around shoot the bad guys collect items and open a door.", "his levels also are pretty much more of the same after a while.", "What frustrates you about his are the depth deceiving jumps you need to make.", "Because the camera doesn't rotate you need to make double jumps blind and have to land on smaller platforms below or die.", "In 3-D it is hard to determine your depth and you will die alot from missing.", "I know I am griping a lot about petty gameplay things but honestly it ruins my fun level with the game.", "The first hour or so was the best for me because the game was more interactive in the beginning and the novelty factor.", "But about an hour into the game you have done just about everything the game is going to throw at you.", "Thus let the repetition begin.", "Peter's levels are way too hard considering the fun ridiculous nature of the game and the general glitches and shoddy appearance/layout of the game shows it was pretty much thrown together quickly and poorly tested.", "I think with a couple more months in development this game could have been a bigger hit but alas it is a failure in my eyes.", "The story istelf is very funny.", "Lots of recycled gags from the show and some good jokes.", "It is a bit tamer than the show and there isn't a whole lot of new humor here.", "I would give this one a miss and rent it.", "That way you can get rid of it when you get bored." ]

[ "I ordered these for my water dragon habitat.", "The package arrived and when I picked it up, it made a rattling sound.", "They had placed the bulb box in a slightly bigger box with absolutely no cushioning at all and no warning on the outside box of fragile contents.", "One bulb was completely shattered.", "The other worked.", "I put it in the fixture while I processed a replacement order because I needed a basking bulb right away.", "The second box came and nothing was shattered, but one of the lights was a total dud and didn't even light up once.", "The other in that box worked fine.", "So I put the dud in the box with the shattered one and sent it back for the return and kept the 2 working bulbs.", "Next time I'll go to a local pet store so that I can return a dud right away if it happens and so I don't risk them shattering in transit." ]

[ "Don't believe the hype:It's more a suspense than a real horror movie!", "Sure the story is good but I found the overall dull.", "A cute storie but not to view it twice when you know the end.", "First, the main character is a tired old man (goerge scott).", "They should use a 35-40 woman.", "Where the director miss the point is when a scene become to bring some creepy tension...", "it suddenly cut and jump in time to a boring ordinary scene instead of extending it.", "All these abrupt cuts ruins entirely all the atmosphere and put the movie to the rank of 'only for the story suspense' instead of real horror film.", "No gore, no blood and unfortunatly not enough atmosphere (because it's constantly cut off)...", "amityville is much better as atmospheric ghost story than this boring suspense." ]

[ "The main game is decent but relatively short.", "The big selling point for me were all the multi-player mini-games.", "I knew that there would be a few throw aways but with 50 choices there had to be something worth playing with friends.", "Boy was I wrong, all of the games are pretty bad.", "Many are boring (landing a space ship?", "), some are limited by graphics (rock, paper, scissors), and nearly all have a truly wretched control scheme (Whack-a-Monkey).", "If I hadn't played Wii Sports and Rayman first I would have regretted buying a Wii based on how poorly the Wiimotes function with this piece of software.", "There have been several times when I swore my Wiimote was broken, only to switch back to Wii Sports and see everything acting perfectly.", "Overall this is a disappointing launch title that not only doesn't do the Wii's unique control scheme justice it actually makes you think its bad (which it isn't)\n\nSpend your money on Rayman, its a blast.", "As for SMB:BB, I'll be trading my copy in." ]

[ "I guess I'm in the minority here.", "How else can I explain that I found this NOBLE PRIZE WINNING VERY FAMOUS novel , absolutely boring.", "I think the main problem is that its often promoted as \"one of the greatest love stories of all times\".", "If you approach it with this in mind , you are going to be terribly disappointed.", "Zhivago and Lara, sorry to say, do not know even the basics of love.", "They get together somewhere in the middle of the book (without really falling in love), get seperated , meet again after another 100 pages, get seperated, meet again and finally get seperated one last time, never to see each other again.", "One never feels their joy or pain, mainly because they don't seem to feel it either.", "I always felt that if you loved someone, you'd do your best to be near that person.", "No such feelings here.", "They never seem to miss each other and don't seem vey thrilled when they're together.", "All he does is wait for her to fall asleep so he can get back to writing poetry ( and that too NOT about her)!!!", "Is this love???", "All that you expect from the agony and ecstasy of this beautiful emotion is missing here.", "Frankly this book would be have been as good or as bad without making them lovers or even friends.", "In between all this we have to put up with page after page of discourses on the Russian thoughts and their way of life during the revolution.", "That was what the author wanted to convey anyway.", "There is hardly any movement in the book and I died of boredom.", "Surprisingly, the movie was very good(it stuck to being a love story).", "The Russians did their countrymen a great favour by banning this book.", "My advise- avoid the book.", "See the movie.", "Enjoy Omar Shariff." ]

[ "It looks nice and does keep toys in it, but if you have a boy that likes to play with boats; the boats will not fit unless they are the size of a regular rubber ducky size!", "I read the instructions before putting up...", "I cleaned the tile and waited like 3-4 hrs before placing it up..", "I thought it worked nicely and even enjoyed it for about 2 days till I heard a loud noise come from in the bath room and found it had fallen down off the tile into the bathtub...", "Thank Goodness my kids, my husband, or I wasn't the shower/tub when it fell.", "I tried to return it but they wouldn't take it back so I had it in the box forever then just gave it away to someone who said they would nail it up...", "They are using it now on a regular wall...", "I suggest not buying it at all!!!", "You can find a big bucket and paint the kids names on it and put the toys in...", "I did...", "I wish I never bought the thing..", "It really only holds little toys, it don't grow with the child...", "Sorry That's just my opinion!!", "If you do end up just having to buy it I hope it works out better for you than it did for me!!" ]

[ "Very disappointed with Bosch for designing a system of attachments that don't work together.", "I purchased a RA1165 base to mount under a RA1181 table.", "Then purchased a RA1172AT Dust Extraction Hood Kit...", "with the intention to mount the dust extractor hood to the base, using the adapter to bring the hose size to 2 1/2 inches.", "You can attach the dust hood to the base, but the outlet points at an angle towards the FRONT of the router table.", "It is not possible to attach the VAC020 adapter to the dust hood and angle the hose so it exits the rear.", "There simply is no clearance.", "I should have returned the entire system, but decided to try to solve the problem.", "The 1 1/2 inch port size of the dust hood required the purchase of a POOL vacuum hose that is flexible enough to turn nearly 180 degrees beneath the table and exit the rear.", "There I used the VAC02020 adapter to attach it to a 2 1/2 inch Y.", "BTW, here's is Bosch's response: \"Thank you for writing.", "The RA1172AT is for use with the fixed and plunge bases included with the 1617 and 1618 routers.", "The hood is not designed for use with the RA1165 base.", "A 2-1/2\" hose can be connected on the top side of the router table directly to the dust chamber the router bits sits in for dust collection on the router table.", "\"\n\nSo Bosch designed an under-table base that doesn't support Dust extraction, EVEN THOUGH you can physically attach the dust hood to the base!", "If this sounds complicated, it is.", "And it's a direct result of poor design by Bosch.", "The under-table base should be aligned to port to the rear (like the router fence dust port).", "The under table dust hood should be 2 1/2 inches (like the fence).", "And there should be ample clearance for a hose to exit.", "I am going to post this exact review to all my reviews of the various components I purchased." ]

[ "The trouble with the design of this blast gate is there is no way to clean out any accumulated dust.", "Even with the best dust collector, you will always get some stray dust or debris that accumulates on the gate.", "Every time you open and close the gate, this dust get packed into the bottom of the gate.", "Eventually, the gate will not close all the way.", "As more dust gets trapped, the less the gate can close.", "I didn't observe this until about a year after using them.", "I will have to replace all these gates with the metal version which has cut corners that will not allow any dust to get trapped.", "With the metal version, any dust or debris gets pushed out of the corners when the gate is closed.", "Conclusion...", "dont waste your money on these!" ]

[ "Will the real Ronald Reagan please stand up?", "Will the author of this biography please sit down?", "What happened when I read this book?", "Did I learn more about Ronald Reagan and the people around him?", "Yes.", "Could I tell what was real and what was invented?", "No.", "Did I stay up late trying to finish it?", "No...", "getting through this book took awhile.", "It was not an easy read.", "I had heard this was a \"unique\" biography, written from the perspective of the author as a fictional character (!", "), and it seemed that way.", "I understand historical fiction, and I understand biography.", "I guess I am having some difficulty with melding the two, particularly with Reagan, who WAS larger than life.", "I wanted to learn more about the man and his presidency, and I was left hanging.", "Another biography will eventually come out.", "How long can you wait?" ]

[ "When I received the bat in the mail I was at first excited.", "Growing up I loved to play baseball.", "Louisville Slugger, the name is suppose to say it all!", "I took it to the batting cages and was crushed after two turns.", "The bat is weak and cracked after only about 30 pitches.", "It managed the slow pitches ok but on my second pitch in the 70 mph cage it cracked right down the length.", "The description says an adult baseball bat and \"Ideal for high school, college, adult senior league, and minor league professional baseball\".", "70 mph should not be too much for that bat.", "If Louisville Slugger would have warrantied the bat I would have been ok, but they don't warranty wood bats any more.", "So I was out of luck and not happy at all.", "This bat sucks and customer service from Louisville Slugger is even worse!" ]