Archive for May, 2010

We noticed the great reviews for the product and ordered one. Unfortunately when it came we noticed the warning on the package: This product, its packaging and components contain ingredients known to the State of California to cause Cancer and Reproductive Harm!
Thanks Garmin. With the billions of dollars you are making you couldn’t cough up the bucks to make a product that doesn’t cause Cancer and Make it impossible for people to have kids!
I’m sure it would cost a few cents more per mount to make one without the Cancer causing ingredients but it just goes to show you where Gamrin’s priorities are.
I’m thinking about returning my Garmin GPS even. For all I know maybe that is cancer-causing too. Garmin put up a Website about it. Maybe instead of putting up Websites, you could get rid of the Cancer-causing and reproductive-harming ingredients!
Kudos to the State of California for making companies point this out. Finally, someone that is on the side of the consumer.
Garmin, I won’t need a GPS to send this cancer-causing garbage back to you to get my refund!
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Book: Artemis Fowl
Author: Eoin Colfer
By: Marshall Cartwright

Would you like to be a criminal mastermind? Well by the time he was thirteen Artemis was. Artemis beat chess champion Evan Kashogi on an online chess tournament with a prize of over 140,000 pounds, he forged a lot paintings that sold all around the world for almost 1 million pounds each, and was involved with the goblins population increase. Artemis also stole a substantial amount of gold from the Lower Elements Police. They are the fairy people.
Artemis now rules the criminal empire from California to Berlin.
But Artemis does not know what he is dealing with when he captures a fairy captain from the Lower Elements police. Then Artemis must overcome many other things that could lead to the end of his life. In the book Artemis fights wars with fairies and triumphs with trolls. As the fairy captain trys to get out of Artemis’s cages and traps, the fairies do all they can to stop Artmis, including trying to blow him up with a bomb.
You will love this book! It is breath taking and it will be like watching a movie from the details Eoin Colfer gives. After every chapter comes a cliff hanger and after every page you read comes a feeling like the book is telling you to read on.

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This review is particularly of Nathaniel Parker’s narration, and not so much of the Artemis Fowl book itself, as there are already so many reviews on that.

If you want an auditory treat, get this audiobook – Nat Parker is a genius when it comes to bringing these characters to life. He does wonderful accents – there are multiple Irish accents for Artemis, Butler, Juliet and Angeline, but many others for the fairy people which are just amazing. In addition, his own, natural speaking /reading voice is so smooth , resonant and perfectly paced that is is a treat in itself. Unlike other audiobooks which I have listened to, you can’t hear him breathing – with some readers you hear every big breath they take and it gets irritating. He reads it perfectly and the great fun is in the rapid dialogue exchanges where he must manage different voices with different accents as well as the narrator’s voice.

The story itself, well, there are some boring and technical parts which I tried to read, and Artemis’s character is not terribly likeable, but the way Parker voices him makes you feel some affection for the character.

If you like the books, this is a worthwhile addition because of the way the characters are brought to life – and if you didn’t like the books, it’s a great listen just for Parker’s enormous vocal talent.
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A flash memory card should just work, and always work. That’s what this has done for me over the last year and a half. I chose this size because it could be easily backed up to one blank DVD, and two 4GB cards gives me redundancy over 1 8GB card. I use it in a Canon SLR, and sometimes in a portable card reader or a built-in reader on a computer. I have had no issues of any kind. Money well spent.
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Book: Artemis Fowl
Author: Eoin Colfer
Publisher: Hyperion
Genre: Fantasy

Summary:
The book Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, has a 12 year old lead character who in the story kidnaps a fairy and when the fairy’s superiors find out that he did they attempt to get her back. This is a story on how a boy named Artemis Fowl kidnaps a fairy. The fairy’s name is Captain Holly Short and when she was replenishing her magic she was kidnaped. When the LEP (her superiors) find out he did they attempt to get her back! So the LEP try every idea they can think of. So things in this get a little… hectic. I highly recommend this book.

Artemis Fowl is Dynamic, Antagonist, and a primary character with his emotions drained boy and only feels greed and that’s it till the end of the book. Im not shier but i think he wears glasses, he is pale, and dose sometimes were a hosts jacket. He is 12 years old and is shorter then most kids his age. He avoids other kids his age. He is smarter then kids his age. Why this character is important to the story is because he makes a scheme to steel fairy gold by kidnaping Captain, Holly Short.

Butler is a Dynamic, Neutral, Primary character who is rather emotional but dose not feel greed. But dose feel anger, happiness, and agreement, and ETC. He is strong and helps his sister out with things. He is a bodyguard and is like a father to Artemis Foul. He can even fit into a suit of armor. He is important to the story because he is one of Artemis’s best friends and is like a father to Artemis.

Captain, Holly Short is a Static, Protagonist, and a Primary character who is usually angry and sometimes lies to people and is a real nice person. She is obviously a captain. She is medium sized and has blond hair and a black suit. She always forgets to do the reticule. She can be clumsy and mean. She is important to the story because she is kidnaped by Artemis Fowl for a ransom.

In this sad action packed story there is greed, kidnaps, happiness, and
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Instructions loop around but don’t resolve the problem with connecting to the internet. Can waste way too much time on this. Don’t even want to try doing this all again with tech support. Much more fruitful to bag it and do more constructive things.
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How to encapsulate the success of Kathryn Socket’s The Help?

When I noticed this book on the New York Times best sellers’ list I placed a hold at the local library. Not surprisingly for a bestselling Oprah endorsed novel I was last hold on a list of around 900 people.

More surprising is when I finally received the book, and finished reading it last week, The Help could still be seen on the bestsellers’ list. I guess The Help falls under that desirable category of the `Next American Novel’, we’re talking a literary piece here, not some cheesy thriller or over the top moral bludgeon of a novel.

The Help is set in the sixties and follows three woman, Abileen and Minny two African American maids (the help) and Miss Skeeter and young white woman aspiring to be a writer – who decides that in order to impress the publishing community she’s going to have to tackle a pretty controversial topic and decides to chronicle the lives of `the help’ in Jackson, Mississippi.

Even with fake names this is a dangerous undertaking as segregation is still ripe in the southern state and racial tensions are skyrocketing due to the activism of Martin Luther King Jnr. Racial tension isn’t the only issue in this novel either, as the lead characters deal with spousal abuse, death, alcoholism and high fashion.

This novel has a fair helping of humor some of is quite black (J) but Socket’s real achievement is to avoid making a novel about racial segregation a black and white issue and make it about people, in all their imperfections and redeeming features. Don’t expect an action thriller with this one, but an emotional piece with tension seething subtly below the surface.

Existentialism and Humanism Jean

These darts really don’t last long in our house. Reloading them and shooting them over and over makes them start to tear. The darts themselves also hurt at close range! But my boys love the guns that they go in, so I guess it’s worth it.
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There are parts of this book that seem to drag on and can make the center of the book go really slow, but it picks up in the end. Overall, I enjoyed the book, I just thought it could have been about half as many pages and still had the same outcome, as much of it felt pretty repetitive. I enjoyed the book well enough to continue on through the series. It is one of those nice rainy day books that can just take you to another place. In the end… a rather enjoyable read.
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Being retired and an avid reader of all types of books, it was keeping me poor buying all the printed books that I wanted to read. Then along came ebooks and after doing a lot of research decided to buy the Kindle.A great move book prices are a lot lower in the e book section and the Kindle works great. If I could work out how to get the time right in my time zone then it would be near perfect.
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