Archive for June, 2010

This product was everything I had hoped it would be and more. I could hardly believe how much hair I was able to remove from my dog even after using other products prior. I would highly recommend this product to others.
Lexerd Garmin Nuvi 1200

Wonderful!!! Used it to help me train for my first marathon and wore it during the race. It helped me monitor my pace and finish the race under my goal time. It is like a training partner on your wrist.
Music Basics Violin Complete

Esta en buen estado, viene cocn todos sus accesorios, auqnue podria traer mas, en general muy buen producto
KitchenAid 9706416 Motor Brush

This scale is completely terrible. Weight readings are not consistent at all…I will weigh myself with clothes on, and then without clothes and gain 6 lbs. Makes no sense. Can get on and off of scale and weight will change by pounds in just seconds. Also, in the past few days the starting weight has become 4.6 lbs instead of 0.0 lbs. This scale is a terrible waste of money, spend a little extra to get a scale that actually works!
Cat 6 CLASS E

I remember reading “Catcher In The Rye” in a high school literature class. I was always awed by the story of Holden Caufield…literature’s most famous juvenile delinquent. And reading it is the only way you can appreciate the late JD Salinger’s work, since he NEVER will allow his books to be made into movies…even posthumously.
The European Mayor Political

I have used this card with my Canon HD video camera for more than a year now. It works perfectly and I have not had any issues at all. I would definitely purchase again.
LowePro Backpack kit which

I tried leaving no stars for this book, because this book doesn’t deserve one, but it wouldn’t let me, so I was forced to leave one.
This book certainly is a sign of our times. It shocks me that parents would even think that this book would be an accurate account of what God would preach. All I can say is that any Christian knows better than to believe this garbage. By the looks of the ratings of this book, there isn’t too many Christians reading it and unfortunately, many, many young people are reading it believing it as truth. Very sad!
KitchenAid 9 and 12

Six of us used this scale, one after another. The scale was accurate to a 10th of an ounce!! And we all weighed 2 pounds less than on my old scale! Way to go EatSmart!! Great looking scale too!
Golfology Daily Inspiration from

This is truly a polarizing book. When you read it, you will either love it, or hate it. I have yet to meet anyone on middle grounds with it. A friend and I actually avoid talking about it because we disagree so much about it.

I enjoyed the book for the first chapter or so before repetition of the line “[x] depressed me” began to annoy me to no end. I simply could not like Holden, and this is not a book where you can dislike the main character but still enjoy the story.

Having read it for an assignment and then having to write an essay, I do appreciate the meaning behind the book. I appreciate and understand how we hate the characteristics in others that most reflect upon ourselves and how desperately one holds on to childhood. I simply could not enjoy the story as much as I liked the meaning behind it.
Unusual Gift Ideas

I first saw this on a shelf a couple years back and was intrigued by it but hadn’t picked it up to read it until my 8 year old insisted that it was an awesome story and that I’d love it. So, with him continually asking how I liked it, I read Artemis Fowl.

When asked by my wife about the plot, my best quick answer was that it is sort of an “evil Richie Rich carrying out a dastardly scheme against the world of fairies.” (For those unfamiliar with Richie Rich, he’s the super rich kid with tons of fun gadgets and crazy adventures to save his family/friends/world). In this case, the rich kid is 12-year-old Artemis Fowl, and his motives are less altruistic.

Style
The writing was well done. It was written very simply and straightforward which was good considering the audience. It was something that a young reader could pick up and push through without getting bogged down by the language. The writing and dialog was natural and flowed well. Overall, very nice.

I have only 2 gripes about the writing itself:
1. Numerical consistency. Specifically, the phrasing “[something happened:] in as many [amount of time:].” You’ve likely heard this phrase before…along the lines of “He fell on his butt three times in as many seconds.” Which means he fell on his butt 3 times in 3 seconds. Colfer uses this phrasing enough that it got distracting to me, especially the times when he used it without a good frame of reference or without numbers. I don’t have the text with me to provide an exact example…but the memory I have is something like “he passed out again in as many minutes.” The numerical reference “again” isn’t really concrete (can be alluded to as it being 2 since it’s the second time) and the timeframe mentioned didn’t fit based on everything that happened in between.
2. Swearing. This is a book presumably for an audience of young kids. Through the first ~2/3 of the book, the author introduced a fairy swear word and used it a handful of times. The word itself is meaningless an
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