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Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Country Brook Design | White Sew On Hook And Loop (2 inch, 10 yards); Brand: Country Brook Design; Review: Huge roll!! Great price!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Tim Holtz Idea-ology Alpha Tiles, 255 Tiles, 11/16 Inches Each, Nonadhesive Chipboard, TH93046; Brand: Tim Holtz Idea-ology; Review: Love all Tim Holtz stuff!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ranger Dina Wakley Media Cling Stamps, 6 by 9-Inch, Scribbly Birds; Brand: Ranger; Review: I have made some of the cutest tags with these stamps. They are adorable. Love how they are packaged.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Magnetic Pin Cushion, Colors May Vary; Brand: 100009; Review: Great color and so convenient!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: OLFA 1071800 QR-16S 16-1/2-Inch Square Frosted Advantage Acrylic Ruler; Brand: OLFA; Review: Love the Olfa Frosted rulers!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Faber-Castell India Ink Pitt Artist Pens, Set of 6 Brush Tip (B), Skin Tones (FC167162); Brand: Faber-Castell; Review: I use these all the time for shading!; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Arts_Crafts_and_Sewing |
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Title: White Crystal Ball Studs Shamball Inspired Silver Plated Brass; Brand: ; Review: These arrived promptly and were just what I was hoping for! I bought these to wear on my wedding day but like them so much I put them on right away and have been wearing them ever since. For me they're a great every day earring as well. A good size (about the size of a pea, if you're not up on your mm measurements), very eye catching. I'm allergic to nickel and the sterling silver hasn't given me any problems. I've already gotten multiple comments on them. So far no loose stones, but even if one does pop out I won't be upset considering the price.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: 2 Pack Zenana Women's Basic Tank Tops Charcoal, White; Brand: Zenana Outfitters; Review: I love that I found a cami without an inner shelf bra! Material is soft and comfortable. Length is a tiny bit long for me but I'm only 5'1" with a very short torso so on most, more "average" height people it will be perfect (I ordered the small). Even still, it's not so long that it covers my bottom or anything like that. Others have noted that they're too sheer to wear along but I disagree. I got the Charcoal and White and as long as I wear a nude bra under the white one I can wear it alone. Regardless, I ordered them as layering pieces and they fit the bill perfectly!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Dawhud Direct T-Rex Youth Tee Shirt (Glow in The Dark); Brand: Dawhud Direct; Review: I bought this T-shirt for my son because he loves dinosaurs and just outgrew a glow in dark shirt that he absolutely loved wearing. He really loved the novelty of putting on the shirt and turning off all the lights to see it glow. While this is a good-looking dinosaur shirt, it doesn't glow in the dark at all. I've left it out in the light (which is sometimes necessary) and then tested it with no luck. I can't even see the areas of the design that are supposed to glow. Unfortunately, it's a big disappointment.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: LaClef Women's Super Soft Knit Cowl Back Yoga Tank Top; Brand: LaClef; Review: I love this shirt! I'm 5'1", 113 pounds with an athletic build and the small fits me perfectly. I don't find it too boxy at all. It is not fitted, it is loose and flowy. The material is so much nicer than I expected! Before wearing it I machine-washed and dried it before noticing that the tag says "hand wash only" (oops) but it's not ruined at all - it held up very well. It shrank just a little but it still fits well. Going forward I will probably machine wash it on delicate and hang dry. The rayon is really soft and has a nice weight to it. I have the light gray and it's not see through at all. I wear a strappy bralette with it and it looks really cute in the back. More fun than a basic sleeveless shirt. I personally wouldn't wear this for working out because I don't think rayon is a good material for sweating in - I wear it as a casual top.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Kamik Women's Shellback Insulated Winter Boot; Brand: ; Review: These boots are great - very comfortable, easy to wear and keep my feet pretty warm. I am not a fan of winter and I hate being cold, but I live in New England and needed good boots. I was leery about ordering boots with a removable lining because I was afraid they would come out every time I took the boots off. I needn't have worried - the liners stay in place great. I wear a 7 in all casual shoes and boots but a 7 1/2 in all athletic sneakers. I ordered a 7 and am glad I did. When I first put them on I thought they felt a little snug, but within a day or wearing them I was happy with the fit. There is no need to wear the thickest, heaviest socks out there with these and if you do, you will have to order a 1/2 size up. I wear regular athletic socks or the lightweight wool socks. I have felt my toes were a little cold on some days when the weather is particularly bitter, which is why I have them 4 stars. But I'm not sure there is a product in existence to keep my completely toasty all winter long when it's negative 10 degrees, so I would say they're more of a 4 1/2 stars. Would certainly buy them again and recommend.; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
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Title: O'Neill Men's Santa Cruz Stripe Boardshort; Brand: ; Review: Solid; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Timberland PRO Men's Pit Boss Steel Toe Boot; Brand: ; Review: Still breaking these in but very strong boots. Taking some time for the heel to mold to my foot, may push that out just a bit. Getting quite a bit of rubbing there but otherwise very satisfied. Purchased the same boots in 2005, they lasted quite a while. Steel toe is great, boot feels a little bit lighter then the old ones too.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Nike Men's Air One TR Cross Trainer; Brand: ; Review: They stood up strong a few months. Bought them for summer time construction, too hot for boots all day. They were completely covered in concrete the first week, washed them off and dried them out, no problem. 8 good months of wear and tear, pretty well done now though.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: KEEN Women's Newport H2 Sandal; Brand: ; Review: Best water sandals around in my opinion. Long as you get the proper size, you barely even notice you have them on. Will be a keen sandals fan for good.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: var aPageStart = (new Date()).getTime(); var ue_t0=ue_t0||+new Date(); window.ue_ihb = (window.ue_ihb || window.ueinit || 0) + 1; if (window.ue_ihb; Brand: ; Review: Best water sandals around in my opinion. Long as you get the proper size, you barely even notice you have them on. Will be a keen sandals fan for good.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: var aPageStart = (new Date()).getTime(); var ue_t0=ue_t0||+new Date(); window.ue_ihb = (window.ue_ihb || window.ueinit || 0) + 1; if (window.ue_ihb; Brand: ; Review: Best water sandals around in my opinion. Long as you get the proper size, you barely even notice you have them on. Will be a keen sandals fan for good.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ethika Mens The Staple - Spectrum Boxer Brief; Brand: ; Review: Love everything Ethika makes, thank you guys!!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ducks Unlimited All Season Merino Wool Boot Socks, 1 Pair; Brand: Ducks Unlimited; Review: Ducks unlimited are the best socks around in my opinion. They stay up around my calf better than any sock I've tried. Work outside and am constantly moving around, need stuff that works with me and also keeps things warm but not stuffy. All around best socks you can buy for cold temps.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Carhartt Men's 11" Cotton Ripstop Cargo Work Short; Brand: ; Review: Ordered these in 32" but they were way too small, 33" seem to fit perfect.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Carhartt Men's 11" Cotton Ripstop Cargo Work Short; Brand: ; Review: Ordered these in 32" but they were way too small, 33" seem to fit perfect.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
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Title: The White Queen - Complete Series The White Queen: Series 1 NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 United Kingdom; Brand: Rupert Graves; Review: Loved it!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The white queen Stagione 01The white queen Stagione 01 [4 DVDs] [IT Import]; Brand: ; Review: Loved it!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Third Season; Brand: Sarah Michelle Gellar; Review: ; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sex and the City: Season 3; Brand: Kim Cattrall; Review: Love this show.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Big Block Singsong: Vol. 1; Brand: Various; Review: Super cute DVD for kids. My son is 4 and loves these songs and I think they are pretty catchy too! Wish they had more volumes! I would purchase those too!; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Movies_and_TV |
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Title: Paylak Watch Repair Tool (Model: KIT2); Brand: Paylak; Review: The instructions that you do get are wrong. The items I get and the ones listed are totally different. It doesn't tell you how to use each of the tools. Some of the tools I'm still puzzled in what to do with it. The soft head hammer that is used to knock the pin back into bracelet doesn't look too soft too me!; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Steel Men's Watch 116520; Brand: ROLEX DAYTONA; Review: I got this watch at a hefty price, but it's worth every penny. It's almost impossible to get from authorized Rolex dealer as they are stupid or rather Rolex for making such a short supply. But I guess that is part of the appeal of the watch. People tend to want what they cannot get. If the supply was not as low, the appeal for this watch may not be as high. But objectively speaking, I think it is a beautiful piece. It is questionable if there are better-looking watches out there, but it was fun finally finding a place that sells it. It's a jungle out there as some stores have no waiting lists or if they do, require you to be a prefer customer and some have a first-come basis policy which really depends on LUCK...forget all that, I pay whatever, give me the damn watch.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Seiko Men's SNA411 Flight Alarm Chronograph Watch; Brand: Seiko; Review: I got this watch because I love flight watches and I really wanted to get a Breitling but found out it costs more than I thought so I go this instead to satisfy my urge and my wallet. It looks great and similar to the Navitimer but like ten times less?! There is another similar watch that Seiko makes that also has the world time, so you might want to get that instead but the extra LCD display kind of ruins the classical face for me. The only downside to getting this is that there is really cool technology out there by Seiko and Citizen that eliminates the use of the watch battery, basically you never have to change the battery again. That is really cool as cracking open the watch every year or two cannot be good and not to mention extra costs. Kudos for you, bad for the watch repair guy.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Seiko Men's Automatic Silver-Tone-Stainless-Steel Sport Watch, Color:Silver (Model: SKX781); Brand: Seiko; Review: I'm a regular collector of diving watches and this is one of my favorite ones. There is something about diving watches that is really attractive though it could be subconscious and because of the fact that you can get it wet and it would still work. This watch feels rock solid like it just came out from a huge chunk of metal. For such a quality feel, the price is super amazing. I would have to go for my Submariner for a similar feel and on some days, I prefer the feel of this than of my Submariner! The luminated markers are the brightest I ever seen on any watch, diving or non-diving. Clasp is super-awesome, better than the Submariner. Bracelet is not as nice looking but ok. The moveable bezel has the best click of any of the diving watches I own and this is the least expensive dive watch of all but unfortunately I paid a little too much. The only downside and may not be for you if you don't adjust your bands, but if you do, it's a chore. I spend hours trying to do this and was only successful after improvising as the linking system is very unusual.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Citizen Men's JY0010-50E Eco-Drive Skyhawk A-T Titanium Watch; Brand: Citizen; Review: This is the ultimate watch: It's light (titanium), highly functional (I'll get to that in a moment), Eco-Drive (powered by the sun, no batteries necessary), radio-controlled (requires no adjustment) - so in other words, you can be a total dummy and not read the manual and the watch would still work properly - forever! So yes, it has 2 alarms, chronograph, flight calculating bezel (no idea how to use that), world time, power reserve, date, 2nd time, am/pm indicator - the only thing that is missing is compass, thermometer, and barometer! Only problem is accessing these functions is not always easy or intuitive and it is pretty ugly. The band is a mix of brushed and shiny titanium. with a black face just littered with technical markings so more function less form.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Jezebel Women's Ruffles Galore Babydoll Set; Brand: Jezebel; Review: She's kinda chunky and this still fit her! Don't tell her I said this as she has a violent temper and can fight.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Casio Men's A158WA-1 Water Resistant Digital Watch; Brand: Casio; Review: I own Rolexes and Breitlings but I wear this watch everyday. Why? Because it's cooler and doesn't look like you're trying too hard. The ladies see me and they're like, finally, this guy not trying to impress me and then I go home with them.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Seiko Men's SNKL41 "Seiko 5" White Dial Stainless Steel Automatic Watch; Brand: Seiko; Review: Without it being a counterfeit! I basically got this because it looks very close to the Rolex Datejust. Ok, I know the band looks so a bit off, but at this price, I'll let it slide. I love the clam-shape case of the Rolex which is one of the most beautiful shapes ever designed for a watch and this watch is quite close to that shape. The see-thru back is a nice plus and let's you see the inner workings of the watch. This is an automatic watch which means you should wear it daily to keep it running. Some watches may run up to two days without winding but usually one day is tops. Another solution is to get a watch winder if you like to alternate between watches. You cannot really go wrong at this price if this will be your primary watch.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Seiko Men's SKA371 Kinetic Dive Analog Japanese Quartz Stainless Steel Silver Watch; Brand: Seiko; Review: This a terrific watch. Here are pros and cons: Pros: -Looks like Rolex Submariner! But at a fraction of the cost! -Reputable brand. Seiko is actually wore by James Bond in a few of the Roger Moore movies. -Super ACCURATE quartz movement without batteries! I believe you have to change the charger eventually, but this is supposed to last much, much longer than batteries so basically you don't have to change the battery every year or two. -Powers from your movement so no batteries but the power is retained for a very long time. No need to wear this at least every other day like an automatic watch. -Really luminous markers, can see at night -Waterproof -Very handsome piece, I will wear this everyday instead of my Patek Philippe Nautilus because this looks better! Cons: -Not waterproof? I'm not really sure but some of the bad reviews say it's not. Counterfeit perhaps? In any case, I'm not going to be diving or swimming with this anytime soon ;) -Big. It is a lot bigger than a Rolex Submariner which is 40mm in diameter and 12mm thick. This is 42mm in diameter and 15mm thick. The extra 2mm in diameter makes a BIG difference so if you don't like big watches this may not be for you. In my opinion, the Submariner is the biggest size that I think a watch should be. Bigger than that and it is too big, but that's just my preference. 15mm is extremely thick so this watch does lose some of the elegance here because the thinner watchers are definitely more regal looking. -Heavy. This watch is pretty heavy and you will feel it toward end of day. But if you're a body builder, not a deal breaker ;) -Lastly and most important, the band adjustment is tricky because it has a tiny sleeve for the pins on only one end of the link. If your jeweler or yourself is not careful, he would miss this and now your watch WILL NOT be secure as some of the reviewers here mention about the links coming apart. It is not the fault of the watch but whoever is doing the band adjustment. I am an avid watch enthusiast and so I have faced many trials and tribulations but at the same time have the pleasure of servicing various expensive watches from Cartier to Breitling to Omega to Rolex and many, many more. I can tell you the Omega Seamaster and Tag Link are also pretty tricky bands to adjust. Swatch bands - expect to hammer the pins really hard. Seiko bands are probably the worst and so I'm prepared to look for these really miniscule little sleeves. Don't ever pay to adjust Rolex bands because you only need a small screwdriver. Enjoy your watch! Lastly, I was deciding between this and the much praised Seiko Titanium Prospex which also looks very much like the Submariner. But look at the comparison here: -$300 vs $1000. I mean if you going for the $1k price range, why even go Seiko?; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Nixon Time Teller A045. 100m Water Resistant Watch (37mm Stainless Steel Watch Face); Brand: NIXON; Review: I call this my ghetto rolie. I own a real Rolex President Date but I get more compliments for my ghetto rolie...werd.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Citizen Men's AT9010-52M World Time A-T Eli Manning Limited Edition Watch; Brand: Citizen; Review: Very beautiful watch. A little bit hard to adjust - must read detailed instructions. Big Giants fan and thought I could wear this whenever I watch their games at the bar. However, since I got this watch, they've been on a losing streak :(; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Plastic Watch Crystal Scratch Remover Polish Tool; Brand: Polywatch; Review: I was really disappointed at my purchase of a vintage Rolex with acrylic crystal which always seem to be cloudy and unclear but a few polishes with Polywatch and the plastic crystal suddenly becomes clear like a brand new Rolex! Terrific item and really does its job!; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
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Title: Little Tikes Jelly Bean Racer Ride On, Pink; Brand: Little Tikes; Review: Great toy.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Fun Express Zoo Animal Sticker Roll Novelty (100 Piece); Brand: Fun Express; Review: Great stickers! 2 year old niece loves them!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: OTC - 100 Farm Animals Barnyard Stickers Sealed Roll Classroom Rewards; Brand: Fun Express; Review: Great Stickers! 2 Year old niece loves them!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Kahootz Spirograph Junior; Brand: Kahootz; Review: Great Product; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Zootopia Character Pack Judy And Bellwether; Brand: TOMY; Review: Great Product; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Zootopia Character Pack Nick And Finnick; Brand: TOMY; Review: Great Product; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Toys_and_Games |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: Europa Hotel; City: Sliema Island of Malta; Review: Tried to put some staff but they requested to leave the following morning due to balcony door damaged, sheets with holes, shower does not funtion and noise from the adjectent room coming from students. they tried to change the room but same poor level. Very cheap € 25 per night but they prefer to pay more and sleep !; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Comino Hotel; City: Comino; Review: This was an excellent October offer! For € 29.95 including buffet lunch and two way boat trips you experience a trouble free day. It was great, food was good and pool was clean and quiet. We did not sleep there but for an overnight stay it is only € 25 bead and breakfast........but this does not make much sense as there is nowhere to eat except the hotel !; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Golden Tulip Parkhotel Neu Ulm; City: Neu Ulm Swabia Bavaria; Review: Hotel service is up to speed, rooms clean and breakfast excellent. Just 15 mins walk from the center and a stone throw away from the Danube. The hotel is in the new area and provides excellent shopping. Ulm centre is just across the river and crossing is from two bridges which lead to traditional eating places.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Henley Business School; City: Henley on Thames Oxfordshire England; Review: This was my second visit. The external building is being refurbished. Rooms at Thames building are perfect, last year they were excellent. Some degradation is quality of the room service was noted. Lecture Room was adequate but the tables set out was poor as whoever (like me) was positioned looking at the wrong direction, hence three full days of turning around each time between taking notes and looking at the lecture and presentations. Ended with some neck pain. Food was excellent and well prepared. University Staff make you feel welcome and 'at home' instantly. Checkout facilities poor for the high volume of business travellers. Located at one of the best areas of Reading with the Thames just a few meters away. It is a pity that both visits were spoilt with continuous rain.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Paradise Bay Resort Hotel; City: Mellieha Island of Malta; Review: All family agreed to meet and celebrate the special day by a pool. the choice fell on Paradise Bay Hotel as it offered the lunch as part of the day. Arrived there at 09.30 and found deckchairs by the pool. (deckchairs need a refurb as the canvas is worn out). Pool was clean and fresh and heavily chlorinated that one could not open his eyes in the water. Spent the rest of the morning swimming. At 12.30 moved into the main restaurant for lunch. Setting was excellent with ample space to move around. The buffet table offered all kinds of food / tastes. It was the best buffet lunch i've had this year. However foreign waiters need some training as one was very rude when we requested another drink (which he had missed out in the first order). The food was well prepared, well presented and best of all tasted excellent. Afternoon was spent again by the pool. it was evident the the water was now not clean and circulating pumps were off as no water was overflowing to the surrounding pool gutters The pool water was leaving evidence that it had become stagnant as bubbles with surrounding white foam were collecting at one end of the pool. It was a real pity that the pool became a stagnant water bath where we had to cut the day short due to none of us wanted to get some form of infection due to visible stagnant water. Showers and toilets were recently refurbished, but already need some maintenance. Maybe we will visit again due to that the food was excellent but if the pool pumps are noted to be off in the afternoon, it would be our last visit. I hope this is not an energy saving measure to the detriment of the users. It would be a real pity !; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Castleton Hotel; City: London England; Review: The position is excellent and ideal. With all the problems we encountered, reception was very helpful. Poor guy works Monday to Sunday from 7.00 to 19.00 and has to face all the problems the management (or the lack of it) leaves him to deal with. We asked for two adjacent rooms...the rooms given to us were one on the second floor and one on the fourth floor (see note on lift). Check well before booking as the....1) rooms are toooooo small and have no wardrobe, chairs, or room to place baggage 2) lift does not work and had been so for quite some time. We spent a week and none came to see to its repair. 3) kitchen staff do not speak a single word in English and could not understand any of our needs. Breakfast was right but the same day in day out 4 ) We had an early flight and breakfast starts at 8.00 on weekends and there is no way you can get a simple toast or coffee...no way as the staff do not speak or understand a single word in English 5) Tv is a 15 inch unit and placed over the bed. You cannot watch tv if it is placed on the bed instead of in front. Was it done to watch it while using the bathroom ? The shower is less than 50 cm wide and 1 m long. The shower curtain touches the toilet. The whole wash and rest room is no more than a meter wide and 1.5m long. Much smaller than those fitted on a cruise liner. My only thanks go to the dedicated receptionist as he did his best to find two rooms on the ground floor (not adjacent) solving the lift problem. These rooms were larger, and had a decent bathroom and shower.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Lantern Guest House; City: Marsalforn Island of Gozo; Review: The place does not feel attractive from the outside. However when you enter, you find a warm family atmosphere with pure home made food. All food tested right and in good quantities. Price excellent and is what is called real value for money.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Db Seabank Resort Spa; City: Mellieha Island of Malta; Review: We went for a buffet lunch to celebrate a birthday. However the food volume was great, variety was short and the quality of the food was very low...tasteless, or everything tasted the same, as kiosk food.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Paradise Bay Resort Hotel; City: Mellieha Island of Malta; Review: We spent a weekend which had to be a Birthday present to mum. However the experience ended up to be certainly disappointing. Hotel needs an urgent refurb as except for the common areas the hotel is worn out. To mention some areas: umbrellas are torn, pools need a making good as areas are contaminated with algae, toilets and showers with broken locks and need to be cleaned more frequently, pool areas need to be washed daily and a group of Maltese were playing loud music all the day. This was reported three times and no action was taken. At 17.20 we were asked to start removing cloths and things because they wanted to close the umbrellas. At 17.40, the same person started throwing the clothes on the umbrellas as he started to collect the deck chairs. What poor service when the sign says that use of pool is till 19.00. Food was good and plenty. Deserts excellent. I gave two stars because of this and the service given at reception but I would fire the (general) maintenance manager !; Rating: 2.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
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Title: The Paradise Resort and Spa; City: Dambulla Central Province; Review: Best place to family's & friends visit. Good are tasty. staff was very friendly. Service excellent. We love the pool and pizza outlet near the pool... We enjoyed lot... Room is clean and specias... Eco friendly hotel..; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Calm Resort Spa; City: Kalkudah Eastern Province; Review: The calm is excellently situated close good touring base. Its a large property and you may need to walk a bit to get around, We had a standard room which was comfortable of a good size and with a small balcony near the pool.It was on the gardan , The Hotel is well equipped and has an excellent restaurant with a good range of high quality western and sri lankan options. As with all the places we stayed in Sri Lanka the staff were always warm, friendly and helpful.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Amaya Beach; City: Kalkudah Eastern Province; Review: If you want an unforgettable holiday, go stay there now! We enjoyed a fantastic, wonderful and amazing week end at Amaya.not only because of the luxurious hotel ,which was a very fresh and spacious room, but also because of the amazing(!) staff. We have stayed in a hotel with such attentive, friendly . Hope to see you again soon!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Camellia Resort and Spa; City: Sigiriya Central Province; Review: Hotel is carm and eco friendly situated in dambulla. Room was spacious, clean and modarn facilitates. Restaurant was oparn concept, good and service was good.good was delicious. Spa service very positive i had two massages which were great and AMAZING!!!!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Berjaya Hotel Colombo; City: Dehiwala Mount Lavinia Western Province; Review: We stayed in one night with family it was amazing experiences in city. Room in 3rd floor. Amazing view love the Sunset and sea view.. Room specias clean and modarn. Kids love the pool Service and food was delicious. Price was reasonable.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Nilaveli Beach Hotel; City: Nilaveli Eastern Province; Review: environment is green with many trees . Food was yammy & fresh. beach BBQ was well organized .special thanks for management and staff.we enjoyed lot.love the beach decorations its romantic. Front office staff was helpful .; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Amaya Hills Kandy; City: Heerassagala Kandy District Central Province; Review: foods were delicious Specially salad corner .i love the those very mach. Romantic view @night. We had function there service is excelente thank you for the management &staff it was well organized . Room is ok ,but cleaning part to be improved .; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Peacock Beach Hotel; City: Hambantota Tangalle Southern Province; Review: View is good when entered the hotel,but room facility is terrible. No water bottels. plates in the corridor not clean monkeys are breaking bottels etc. as a hotel not enough service.. Food is good. sea view room is good .; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Shangri La s Hambantota Golf Resort Spa; City: Hambantota Tangalle Southern Province; Review: One of the best resort in sri lanka.its like heaven all the beauty in the place is eye couching. It is very good experience to kids & we too.thank you for Management & staff good hospitality & services. Room &all the area well managed.my kid love the pool & play area. Food are delicious & i love the japanese foods.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mandara Rosen; City: Kataragama Uva Province; Review: The hotel situated colombo kataragama main road.. Food was delicious and good service. Room is specious clean. Specious bathroom Our room facing to gardan.we love there gardan many fruit trees there specially casu tree..it w is yammy we love it. Welcome drink we had was deference for us. Service and staff was friendly ...; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Saunter Paradise Hotel; City: Kimbissa Central Province; Review: Hotel close to habarana main road but,with many trees and specious place. Food ware delicious and testy.. Cabana type rooms are clean and specious ... One of the eco friendly hotel in dambulla. Service excelente ...thank you for the management and staff for good services provide....; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Earl s Regency Hotel; City: Tennekumbura Kandy District Central Province; Review: We visit hotel for our wedding anniversary with out booking.staff at indian restaurants treat us nicely.service was excelente. food was delicious thank you for the gift we love them.you gays make memorable day for us.again thank you for the management too....; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Cassandra Culture Resort; City: Sigiriya Central Province; Review: I t was a very comfy .This is a lovely hotel, in beautiful surroundings, really well located for the cultural triangle and very fairly priced. Our room was really nice and extremely clean. breakfast and dinner is good quality with both European and Sri Lankan choices, and is inexpensive. The staff are helpful. this was definitely up there with the best. Would highly recommend.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Golden Crown Hotel; City: Ampitiya Kandy District Central Province; Review: We stayed for our 6th anniversary🎂💐.hotel was modarn and comfortable room with modern facilitys .room specious and clean.staff very helpful .buffet arrenge nicely food was tasty..🍳🍜.view from the pool area very calm and eye- catching .climate was cool🌨; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Amaya Hills Kandy; City: Heerassagala Kandy District Central Province; Review: We went for hotel for dinner .🍝we had a dinner it was delicious specially me and my daughter love the chef salad .it was amazing .i have no word to explain . Service bit late but ok we are happy with dinning with cool climate in top of mountain ....💑🍽🍷; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Melheim Kandy Hotel; City: Kandy Kandy District Central Province; Review: First time visit hear after long journey from Arugambay . Stayed 2night..we got the room with balcony so can enjoy misty mountain and partial view of kandy. The room was clean and comfy . Staff was super attentive to our needs. Breakfast and dinner was delicious; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Grand Kalundawa Waterfront Resort; City: Dambulla Central Province; Review: On of the best hotel i ever seen face to the faddy fild and situated on the water deck.it was a marvelous experience me and my family .love to stay with them.is was a big land we have to walk.but we love the place. Thank you for the staff for service provided; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Heritage Grand; City: Badulla Uva Province; Review: The hotel situated in heart of badulla Best conference for town The conference hall was specious & clean.. The buffet was arrenge nicely. Sound and lightning also in good condition . air condition and chairs also compy.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Anantaya Resort Spa Chilaw; City: Chilaw North Western Province; Review: What a fabulous hotel, with fantastic attentive staff, great dining experiences. The buffet had such a huge variety of options every visit was a treat. I stayed here with my friends. Kids love the pool.room was specious and romantic. we all really enjoyed every aspect of our holiday and would highly recommend this hotel.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Heritance Kandalama; City: Dambulla Central Province; Review: One of the best hotel ever seen...🍝 excelente service .. Food was delicious and creativity arrenge.🍖🍝☕️ Staff service very good.. Over roll great experience and view of the hotel is green we love the look..; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Randholee Resort Spa; City: Kandy Kandy District Central Province; Review: We went there for a dinne .food was delicious and cleanliness is superb.. Cool climes top of the mountain .view from the hotel @night beautiful .. We had dinner in pool area.it was a memorable experience for us. Thank you for the service .; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Blue Wave Hotel; City: Arugam Bay Eastern Province; Review: Hotel was comfortable Room specious and clean. Food was testy friendly staff and service was excelente . All of us very happy about service and hotel facilitys . Best experience in arugambay . Thank you for the management .; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Waterside Bentota; City: Bentota Galle District Southern Province; Review: We were there with our family all are very happy about service given. room specious and clean.hot water shower to be check. Kid love the pool and garden well maintain . Helpful staff . Thank you for the service.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Grand Kalundawa Waterfront Resort; City: Dambulla Central Province; Review: Plece full of greeny and love the environment . Room was well arrenge .facilitys are great. Service also good with friendly staff. Food also delicious . Garden and pool well maintain . We love the 🌳 tree house .that was a nice experience all of us.; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: The Original Adventures #1 (Hank the Cowdog); Author: Visit Amazon's John R. Erickson Page; Review: I ENJOYED THIS BOOK FROM START TO FINISH. I ALSO LEARNED MORE THAN I THOUGHT I WOULD ABOUT THE RANCHES OF THE WEST.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Murder, She Wrote: Trouble at High Tide; Author: Jessica Fletcher; Review: I AM A BIG FAN OF MURDER SHE WROTE. I HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF THESE BOOKS IN PAPERBACK AND NOW I ORDER EVERY TIME A NEW ONE COMES OUT ON KINDLE. I ALSO WATCHED THE TV VERSION EVERY CHANCE I GOT. THIS IS ALWAYS A VERY GOOD READ, USUALLY FAST MOVING,EASY READ.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Skeleton in the Closet (Kate Lawrence); Author: Visit Amazon's Judith K Ivie Page; Review: AT FIRST I THOUGHT RATHER SLOW START, BUT AS TIME WENT ON, I BEGAN TO ENJOY THE READ.COURSE I'M ALWAYS SURPRISED TO THE END.THE TWO LITTLE OLD LADIES REMINDED ME OF THE BALDWIN SISTERS ON THE WALTONS TV SHOW OF MANY YEARS AGO.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Murder by Mishap: an Edna Davies mystery (Volume 3); Author: Visit Amazon's Suzanne Young Page; Review: this is an enjoyable read. Edna reminds me of Mrs. Polifax,who I enjoy greatly. You think you have the mystery figured out, then there's a twist and you didn't know it was coming.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Cardwell Ranch Trespasser; Author: Visit Amazon's B.J. Daniels Page; Review: This book kept me guessing and hoping the bad person would get their due. Good and easy read and exciting.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Through Gilly's Eyes: Memoirs of a Guide Dog; Author: Visit Amazon's Matthew VanFossan Page; Review: I hated to put this book down ,but I had to do my chores..I am an animal lover and especially love service animals. However the epilog was a tear jerker. I thouroughly enjoyed this book.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Pure Joy: The Dogs We Love; Author: Visit Amazon's Danielle Steel Page; Review: we have a dog ,we love her and she pulls some good ones sometimes, which exasperates us to no end... they are just like kids and love them anyway...; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: All My Patients Kick and Bite: More Favorite Stories from a Vet's Practice; Author: Jeff Wells; Review: these vet stories are so interesting and tickle my funny bone too .When our boys were young they had several pets, rabbits kittens, hamsters, ducks, lamb, once a pet pig..oh what fun on the farm..; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Wedding at Cardwell Ranch (Cardwell Cousins); Author: Visit Amazon's B.J. Daniels Page; Review: good read. B.J. Daniels good . Keeps me on the edge of my seat all the time.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life; Author: Visit Amazon's Tim Conway Page; Review: All I have to do is think of Tim Conway and I laugh. That man is a scream. I've enjoyed him for years.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Murder, She Wrote: Death of a Blue Blood; Author: Jessica Fletcher; Review: I always enjoy reading murder she wrote books,ever since I Discovered her books.hardly ever missed the TV series. I do not enjoy too much violence or blood and guts,or too scary stories.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Dr. Dave's Stallside Manner: More Adventures of a Country Vet - Kindle edition; Author: Visit Amazon's Dr. Dave Perrin Page; Review: I'm almost finished with this book..the chapter I just read had me laughing so hard I had tears...; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Murder, She Wrote: Killer in the Kitchen; Author: Visit Amazon's Donald Bain Page; Review: These books are my favorite s..I pre order every chance I get...; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Gin & Daggers (Murder, She Wrote); Author: Visit Amazon's Donald Bain Page; Review: I love all "Murder She Wrote" books,I think I have all of them.( I bought the books before I got a Kindle, from then on I got them on Kindle. It seems I read them faster than with the books. I really enjoy the Kindle.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans; Author: Visit Amazon's Ben Shapiro Page; Review: Ben Shapiro is a voice of reason and common sense offsetting the hypocrisy of the liberal/progressive left. Ben's book is a great read, highly recommended.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Leviathan; Author: Visit Amazon's Scott Westerfeld Page; Review: The Darwinist vs the Clankers. A reimagining of WWI in a steampunk environment. The Darwinist (Allied Powers) makes use of animal DNA to generate their weapons and ships of war. The Clankers (Central Powers) utilize steam and anything mechanical to make their machines of war. The story follows the adventures of Prince Aleksander and Deryn Sharp, a commoner girl whom he meets on his journeys as they try to cope with the fallout of the war. Scott Westerfield has a smoothly flowing, easy to read writing style. The chapters are relatively short usually having a cliff hanger ending. He has done a great job building a believable and fascinating world and crafting interesting characters. The book is full of cool, detailed illustrations by Keith Thompson. It was neat seeing the many machines and creatures of war presented in the well-drawn illustrations. Highly recommended for readers of all ages (not just Young Adult). Also a great YA book for boys.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Chicks With Guns; Author: Visit Amazon's Lindsay McCrum Page; Review: If you love firearms and beautiful photos, youll love this book. The photos consist of full page color as well as black and white layouts with many double-page landscape pictures. The text accompanying each picture is also fascinating. The text describes the choice of firearms and the subjects background story as related to firearms. The paper is good quality, thick, glossy stock. An excellent addition to any firearms or sporting library.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Star Trek: These Are the Voyages TOS Season 2: Season Two; Author: Visit Amazon's Marc Cushman Page; Review: IF you are a fan of Star Trek, the Original Series (TOS), you will love this book. There is a chapter dedicated to each season 2 episode, filled with fun facts and anecdotes, as well as chock full of photos (many rarely seen). The first two chapters give a fascinating story of the many challenges leading into season two. I especially enjoyed all the behind the scenes stories and details that could only come from the author having access to the creators and producers archives. The book itself is a nice thick hardback, with thicker matt paper and what appears to be sturdy binding.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Gone Girl; Author: Visit Amazon's Gillian Flynn Page; Review: Great book. Gillian Flynn has crafted an excellent thriller about a relationship taken to the extreme. It kept me reading during my whole week long vacation in Tahoe. Btw, ignore those reviews dissing the ending. The ending was a perfect fit for the story and the characters.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Throne of Glass Coloring Book; Author: Visit Amazon's Sarah J. Maas Page; Review: Beautiful drawings. Most are very detailed with the buckles, straps and textures of the armor and various clothing. I really appreciate the excerpt and book title describing each drawing on the facing page. It's really cool seeing scenes from the books brought to life. And this coloring book includes scenes from all 5 books!. Well worth the money. I would happily buy a volume 2!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Deplorables' Guide to Making America Great Again; Author: Visit Amazon's Todd Starnes Page; Review: Well written and handy guide to making our country great again. Author makes some great points that brought a fresh perspective on things: "Separation of church and state keeps the state from meddling in church business, but it was never intended to keep the church from speaking out and influencing the government." He gives useful "marching order" to take action at the end of every chapter. The book is well worth the money.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with movies/shows as follows:
Title: Shawshank Redemption, The (1994); Genres: Crime, Drama; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Schindler's List (1993); Genres: Drama, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Godfather, The (1972); Genres: Crime, Drama; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Godfather: Part II, The (1974); Genres: Crime, Drama; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Silence of the Lambs, The (1991); Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Kung Fu Panda (2008); Genres: Action, Animation, Children, Comedy, IMAX; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008); Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Interstellar (2014); Genres: Sci-Fi, IMAX; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) (1981); Genres: Action, Adventure; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Matrix, The (1999); Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Pulp Fiction (1994); Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Casablanca (1942); Genres: Drama, Romance; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il) (1966); Genres: Action, Adventure, Western; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) (1954); Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Rear Window (1954); Genres: Mystery, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); Genres: Comedy, War; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: American Beauty (1999); Genres: Drama, Romance; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Modern Times (1936); Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Great Escape, The (1963); Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Blade Runner (1982); Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Seventh Seal, The (Sjunde inseglet, Det) (1957); Genres: Drama; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Boot, Das (Boat, The) (1981); Genres: Action, Drama, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Rebecca (1940); Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Roman Holiday (1953); Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Psycho (1960); Genres: Crime, Horror; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Gold Rush, The (1925); Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Romance; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Killing Fields, The (1984); Genres: Drama, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Pianist, The (2002); Genres: Drama, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: High Noon (1952); Genres: Drama, Western; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Maltese Falcon, The (a.k.a. Dangerous Female) (1931); Genres: Mystery; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Princess Bride, The (1987); Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: WALL·E (2008); Genres: Adventure, Animation, Children, Romance, Sci-Fi; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Manhattan (1979); Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Night at the Opera, A (1935); Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Apocalypse Now (1979); Genres: Action, Drama, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Green Mile, The (1999); Genres: Crime, Drama; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Metropolis (1927); Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Aliens (1986); Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979); Genres: Comedy; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Young Frankenstein (1974); Genres: Comedy, Fantasy; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sense and Sensibility (1995); Genres: Drama, Romance; Rating: 2.5/5.0
Title: Dolce Vita, La (1960); Genres: Drama; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: To Be or Not to Be (1942); Genres: Comedy, Drama, War; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958); Genres: Drama; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: V for Vendetta (2006); Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, IMAX; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Alien (1979); Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951); Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004); Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Cabaret (1972); Genres: Drama, Musical; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: District 9 (2009); Genres: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 1.5/5.0
Title: Sabrina (1954); Genres: Comedy, Romance; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956); Genres: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: And Then There Were None (1945); Genres: Crime, Mystery; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938); Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Wolf of Wall Street, The (2013); Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, IMAX; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Elysium (2013); Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, IMAX; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: World War Z (2013); Genres: Action, Drama, Horror, IMAX; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Blue Jasmine (2013); Genres: Drama; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Expendables 2, The (2012); Genres: Action, Adventure; Rating: 1.5/5.0
Title: Prometheus (2012); Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, IMAX; Rating: 2.5/5.0
Title: The Hunger Games (2012); Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 2.5/5.0
Title: Biutiful (2010); Genres: Drama; Rating: 1.5/5.0
Title: Piranha (Piranha 3D) (2010); Genres: Action, Horror, Thriller; Rating: 0.5/5.0
Title: Avatar (2009); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, IMAX; Rating: 2.5/5.0
Title: Day the Earth Stood Still, The (2008); Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, IMAX; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: 300 (2007); Genres: Action, Fantasy, War, IMAX; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: 12 Angry Men (1957); Genres: Drama; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975); Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: North by Northwest (1959); Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Vertigo (1958); Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: It's a Wonderful Life (1946); Genres: Children, Drama, Fantasy, Romance; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Forrest Gump (1994); Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Braveheart (1995); Genres: Action, Drama, War; Rating: 2.5/5.0
Title: Toy Story (1995); Genres: Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy, Fantasy; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Apollo 13 (1995); Genres: Adventure, Drama, IMAX; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Independence Day (a.k.a. ID4) (1996); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Twelve Monkeys (a.k.a. 12 Monkeys) (1995); Genres: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: True Lies (1994); Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Seven (a.k.a. Se7en) (1995); Genres: Mystery, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994); Genres: Comedy; Rating: 0.5/5.0
Title: Mission: Impossible (1996); Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Men in Black (a.k.a. MIB) (1997); Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi; Rating: 2.5/5.0
Title: Titanic (1997); Genres: Drama, Romance; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Stargate (1994); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Rock, The (1996); Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997); Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Jumanji (1995); Genres: Adventure, Children, Fantasy; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Nutty Professor, The (1996); Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi; Rating: 0.5/5.0
Title: Star Trek: First Contact (1996); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Contact (1997); Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) (1997); Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: English Patient, The (1996); Genres: Drama, Romance, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Game, The (1997); Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Full Monty, The (1997); Genres: Comedy, Drama; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Starship Troopers (1997); Genres: Action, Sci-Fi; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ransom (1996); Genres: Crime, Thriller; Rating: 2.5/5.0
Title: Air Force One (1997); Genres: Action, Thriller; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (1997); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Father of the Bride Part II (1995); Genres: Comedy; Rating: 0.5/5.0
Title: Johnny Mnemonic (1995); Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Phenomenon (1996); Genres: Drama, Romance; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997); Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: First Knight (1995); Genres: Action, Drama, Romance; Rating: 1.5/5.0
Title: Looper (2012); Genres: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: 2012 (2009); Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gravity (2013); Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, IMAX; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Total Recall (1990); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Back to the Future Part III (1990); Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Western; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Planet of the Apes (1968); Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Saving Private Ryan (1998); Genres: Action, Drama, War; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003); Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Edge of Tomorrow (2014); Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, IMAX; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Full Metal Jacket (1987); Genres: Drama, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Pearl Harbor (2001); Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, War; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002); Genres: Adventure, Fantasy; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: King's Speech, The (2010); Genres: Drama; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Dances with Wolves (1990); Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Amelie (Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le) (2001); Genres: Comedy, Romance; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Great Dictator, The (1940); Genres: Comedy, Drama, War; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Wizard of Oz, The (1939); Genres: Adventure, Children, Fantasy, Musical; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Maltese Falcon, The (1941); Genres: Film-Noir, Mystery; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Sting, The (1973); Genres: Comedy, Crime; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Toy Story 3 (2010); Genres: Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy, Fantasy, IMAX; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Citizen Kane (1941); Genres: Drama, Mystery; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Big Sleep, The (1946); Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Up (2009); Genres: Adventure, Animation, Children, Drama; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957); Genres: Adventure, Drama, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Strangers on a Train (1951); Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001); Genres: Adventure, Fantasy; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Gladiator (2000); Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003); Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Minority Report (2002); Genres: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Monsters, Inc. (2001); Genres: Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy, Fantasy; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Finding Nemo (2003); Genres: Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ocean's Eleven (2001); Genres: Crime, Thriller; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Incredibles, The (2004); Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Shrek 2 (2004); Genres: Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy, Musical, Romance; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002); Genres: Adventure, Fantasy; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Casino Royale (2006); Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Matrix Revolutions, The (2003); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, IMAX; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Moulin Rouge (2001); Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Perfect Storm, The (2000); Genres: Drama, Thriller; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Last Samurai, The (2003); Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, War; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Others, The (2001); Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006); Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Legally Blonde (2001); Genres: Comedy, Romance; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Scary Movie (2000); Genres: Comedy, Horror; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: What Women Want (2000); Genres: Comedy, Romance; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Planet of the Apes (2001); Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ratatouille (2007); Genres: Animation, Children, Drama; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Billy Elliot (2000); Genres: Drama; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (2005); Genres: Adventure, Children, Fantasy; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003); Genres: Adventure, Drama, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005); Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Gran Torino (2008); Genres: Crime, Drama; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: War of the Worlds (2005); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ocean's Twelve (2004); Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: Day After Tomorrow, The (2004); Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 3.5/5.0
Title: King Kong (2005); Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007); Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Die Another Day (2002); Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Devil Wears Prada, The (2006); Genres: Comedy, Drama; Rating: 1.5/5.0
Title: Match Point (2005); Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Talk to Her (Hable con Ella) (2002); Genres: Drama, Romance; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The (2012); Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, IMAX; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000); Genres: Comedy; Rating: 0.5/5.0
Title: Skyfall (2012); Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller, IMAX; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003); Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Kingdom of Heaven (2005); Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, War; Rating: 2.5/5.0
Title: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011); Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Letters from Iwo Jima (2006); Genres: Drama, War; Rating: 4.5/5.0
Title: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011); Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004); Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Terminator Salvation (2009); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 3.5/5.0 | movielens |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: Hekerua Lodge Backpackers Hostel; City: Oneroa Waiheke Island North Island; Review: Nice bush setting. Managers don't live on site so be warned, the party goes all night. Room was hot with only a little window for ventilation. Room was above kitchen so was very noisy at all hours.Only one sink in kitchen which is difficult.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Royal Kuhio Resort; City: Honolulu Oahu Hawaii; Review: Good,clean and centrally located.However the mattresses on the pull out sofas was old and tired.They suggested I put the mattress on the floor.We obtained a single mattress and placed this on top of the other one on the floor.That worked. Good security.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Aristotles North Shore; City: Wairau Valley North Shore North Island; Review: I stayed here while in Auckland for 1 night. We had been booked into another motel but could not stay there as it was just sooooo unclean & dated. For the same price we found at the last minute this motel. It was great honestly at 5.30 at night to find a clean, modern & friendly place to stay.It is also right amongst restaurants so we could walk to dinner. It is also by ten pin bowling & movie theatre.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Trinity Hotel; City: Wellington Greater Wellington North Island; Review: We stayed here for 3 nights. The hotel was basic.However there was no air conditioning,the hairdryer did not work,the toilet was leaking and it was a noisy room.We were on the 4th floor. There were also only 2 sky channels and no free to view channels.There was a roof top bar, but it was windy when we ventured up there and smokers put us off staying.The staff were friendly.The hotel was a bit run down and the carpets could have done with a clean and the walls and skirtings needed a fresh paint.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Cairns Queenslander Hotel and Apartments; City: Cairns Cairns Region Queensland; Review: We recently had a family stay here for a week.We had a 2 bedroom deluxe apartment on the third floor.We found the reception people helpfull and friendly.The unit wasnt overly clean however.They changed the towels daily, but thats about all-no cleaning the unit,toilet ,dishes etc even though we stayed a week. There was no vacum or broom in the unit.There was a washing machine/dryer combo that needed a rocket science degree to work out.Laundry powder not supplied.The breakfast -continental was good and the breakfast chefs very friendly.Bus loads of asian people descending on the breakfast each morning turned it into an elephant stampede, which was quite unpleasant.The restaurant at night where we ate twice was without ambiance and very average.We didnt find them friendly at all.It was a good 20 minute walk into Cairns central shops. In the heat, we wished we had chosen something a bit closer to town.Maintenance was going on the last 2 days so it was a bit noisy.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Peninsula Beach Resort Tanjung Benoa; City: Tanjung Benoa Nusa Dua Peninsula Bali; Review: We stayed a week. On arrival we had to pay an extra $230 NZ for "electricity" and a bottle of water each day.Even though we already payed for a weeks timeshare and an exchange fee. They never replied to my 3 emails prior to arriving. I had requested a ground floor apartment due to arthritis.I never got this. There were 3 of us and only 1 bed. The towels were only changed once in the whole week. My daughter cut her foot on the pool tiles. Recepton had NO first aid kit.They offered me an UNsterilised needle to dig out the sliver of tile in my daughters foot.They had no plasters. I asked reception to confirm my departure flight was running to time.They said they couldnt find it. I sat down at the lobby internet and found it myself in the end. On the last day we had a late flight so sat down at the pool area for a few hours. We ordered drinks and food. The attendent was holding out her hand for money.I said I would pay when I finish as I had done all week.She then demanded our names and chased down my 8 year old grandson for money. It was disgusting behaviour.I will never forget it. I had to carry my own bags down the stairs to the taxi on leavng even though there were 3 people at reception and no guests at reception. Quite a difference from when I first arrived when they couldnt do enough for you.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: The Beach House; City: Kawau Island North Island; Review: Awesome.Fabulous food. Mitchelin star chef.Couldnt fault it.The staff met us at boat and carried our bags.Rooms were very nice.Weka birds were wandering around.Very relaxing.It doesnt get any better than this.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Murphy Bamboo 26.5-Inch-by-13-Inch Luxury Bamboo Kitchen Dish and Hand Towels, Blue (Set of 2); Brand: Murphy Products LLC; Review: Terrible quality. These towels look beautiful and soft to the touch so they look great if you do not intend to use them, however after one washing and one day's use, they are snagging and the threading is coming apart on all of them. If these are simply for looks, the color really pops. but if these are for use, they look tattered and torn after the first use; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: RADIANCE Art Collection Contemporary Modern Swirl Wool Area Rug, 5'2 x 7'3, Multicolor; Brand: RADIANCE; Review: The colors on this rug are beyond words! It is bright, vibrant and beautiful. It has held up well with my teenage daughter and her two dogs and three cats. Very durable!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Large Canvas Print Wall Art – MANHATTAN NIGHT LIGHTS – 40 x 20 Inch Canvas Picture Stretched On Wooden Frame; Brand: Make My Banner; Review: Absolutely Gorgeous! The colors are bright and vibrant. Beautifully done.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Muskoka MHC35BL Pleasant Hearth Curved Wall Mount Fireplace, Black Glass, 35"; Brand: Muskoka; Review: This is so beautiful! I would have never believed how pretty it is. The heat is great, but it is nice to leave it on when the weather is nice and just get mesmerized by the flames.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: T1007 Gray Black White 9'0 x 12'6 Abstract Modern Area Rug Carpet; Brand: Persian Area Rugs; Review: Beautiful Rugs!. Delivery was fast and the product is well packaged. The delivery truck is usually dirty and the rugs are wrapped in plastic with cardboard covering the ends. The only thing I didn't realize is that if you order the rug in 2 different sizes the pattern is smaller and does not match up. But either way the rug is beautiful! rich color and very soft. Love, Love, Love It!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Kreative Arts Gallery Wrap Canvas Prints Golden Leopard Decorative Framed Canvas Wall Art,south African Animal Picture Print on Canvas Home; Brand: Kreative Arts; Review: I loved this so much I ordered another one for a different room. Very rich color, almost looks 3-d. I get a lot of compliments on it.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Misslo Hanging Closet Dual-Sided Organizers, 42 Pockets, 38.5 by 17.75-Inch; Brand: MISSLO; Review: I purchased this to hang behind my bedroom door for watches, bracelets and out of the door items: perfume, lotion, hair spray.. It holds my watches and bracelets beautifully! The clear pouches make it easy to see what you have and grab and go.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: SONGMICS 10 Tiers Shoe Rack 50 Pairs Non-woven Fabric Shoe Tower Storage Organizer Cabinet Grey ULSR10G; Brand: SONGMICS; Review: Love, Love, Love this! We ordered 2 of them. One for shoes and added the longer side extensions to the top to allow for high heel shoes and then took the rest and used it for a sweater and tank top shelf unit. It looks beautiful! and so much better than the flimsy plastic shoe racks we have tried in the past; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: SONGMICS 10 Tiers Shoe Rack 50 Pairs Non-Woven Fabric Shoe Tower Storage Organizer Cabinet Dark Brown 39.4" x; Brand: SONGMICS; Review: Love, Love, Love this! We ordered 2 of them. One for shoes and added the longer side extensions to the top to allow for high heel shoes and then took the rest and used it for a sweater and tank top shelf unit. It looks beautiful! and so much better than the flimsy plastic shoe racks we have tried in the past; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Safavieh California Premium Shag Collection SG151-7575 Silver Area Rug (4' x 6'); Brand: Safavieh; Review: Soft, Thick and Plush! Love this rug.. laid it out and vacuumed it to get the fibers to spread out. Thick and plush just gorgeous!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: BedJet V2 Climate Control for Beds, Cooling Fan + Heating Air (Dual Temperature Zone - King Size); Brand: BedJet; Review: I love my bedjet. I ordered the comforter sheet which should be here Wednesday and that will make it even better! I am always hot at night and wake up so many times. I turned the ceiling fan off and on all night, then got a timer for a floor fan, but found the constant air on my head or near my face gives me a stuffy nose. The bed jet stays under the sheet so it never hits your head to give you a cold or sore throat. I added the aroma strip that came with it last night and the faint smell of lavender was truly icing on the cake!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Yosoo Colorful Rainbow Paper Cake Cup Baking Muffin Liner 100 Pcs; Brand: Yosoo; Review: Very cute!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: JIC Gem Polished Dyed Black Agate Bookend(s) - 1 Pair - 2 to 3 Lbs; Brand: JIC Gem; Review: These are just gorgeous!!! Heavy and beautiful color!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: GoWISE USA GW22634 2.75-Quart Digital 50 Recipes for Your Air Fryer Book, White; Brand: GoWISE USA; Review: We love, love, love this air fryer! We use it for everything... the best surprise yet was using it with hashbrown patties.. They were really good!; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Home_and_Kitchen |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Alilang Violet Lavender Purple Crystal Rhinestone Floral Wreath Brooch Pin; Brand: Alilang; Review: Beautiful...; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: EVER FAITH Silver-Tone CZ Birthstone Elegant Tear Drop Necklace Earrings Bracelet Set; Brand: EVER FAITH; Review: Beautiful...; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Downton Abbey Navette Center Stone Oval Pin; Brand: Downton Abbey; Review: Beautiful...; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: 1928 Jewelry Porcelain Rose Collection Gold Tone Pink Porcelain Rose Basket Pin; Brand: 1928 Jewelry; Review: Beautiful...; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: O.RIYA Mother's Day Gifts From Daughterthe Love Between Mother and Daughter Is Forever Necklace Jewelry with Heart Charm Pendant; Brand: O.RIYA; Review: Nice gift from the little one to her mommy!; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster; Author: Visit Amazon's Jon Krakauer Page; Review: Before encountering this book in summer of 2004 I'd never heard of Krakauer, or of the 1996 Everest Expedition gone awry, or ever climbed any mountains. Krakauer's writing is fantastic, his talent as a raconteur is unequalled, and his knowledge of the sport of mountaineering and its history is solid. Krakauer makes you become intimately acquainted with each of the characters in his book; you will vicariously suffer the pain that they must have suffered, and you might despair over their harrowing experiences as one bad turn led to another. In all, you will improve your knowledge of the perils and risks of high altitude mountaineering, and you will appreciate the fallibility of human reasoning at extreme altitudes. Most of all, you will appreciate the many sacrifices that Everest Expeditioners make for their clients.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Blink - The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking; Author: Visit Amazon's Malcolm Gladwell Page; Review: I like reading Gladwell's material--his articles in the NewYorker are first class--because of his passion for finding the esoteric and distilling it into something that an everyday person can understand. In Blink, Gladwell is nonpareil in amalgamating seemingly unrelated subjects and weaves them into a compelling argument, which goes as follows: our conclusions are often made at a speed faster than the blink of an eye, and we must be aware of this tendency, and check it in situations when it is a disservice. Gladwell, for instance, cautions against this when life or death situations are involved. The irony is that whereas Blink is about first-conclusion-bias and how it can cause egregious consequences, Gladwell is himself a victim of first conclusion bias, and this has compromised what would have otherwise been a superb book. For instance, we are presented with an unusual study that concerns the heights of the Fortune 500 C.E.O. According to Gladwell, there is causa justificio to believe that since most C.E.Os are over 6'-tall the Warren Harding error is at play. (Gladwell goes at length to explain what the Warren Harding error is.) I fear that by just looking at patterns and forming conclusions based on those patterns, Gladwell has himself been a victim of "thin-slicing." Nonetheless, the writing style is first rate; William Strunk is smiling in his grave. Gladwell covers the Amadou Diallo case extensively, but relies almost entirely on the testimony of the officers as his source. I wonder what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have thought about such a methodology. The helpful anecdotes in the book were the Getty Museum Kouros Scandal, the study on the car dealerships in IL, the Munchen Philharmonic and trombonist saga, the story on Paul Ekman, and the Love-Connector. If it weren't for Gladwell's propensity to draw conclusions based on apocryphal situations or data, I would have rated it 5 stars. Nonetheless, a fascinating insight into the arcane field of cognitive psychology.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Creative Cash Flow Reporting: Uncovering Sustainable Financial Performance; Author: Visit Amazon's Charles W. Mulford Page; Review: Messers Mulford and Comiskey have released a primer on what has lately become a messy subject. Unlike other books with a focus on cash--Hackel's book, for example--this one delves a little bit deeper into the subject of financial misreporting. The reader is given a synopsis of how companies say that their cash is operating, whereas it ought to be put under financing or investing cash flow. There is a multitude of similarly constructed arguments. The examples are lucid, apropos, and contemporary. The book also has a deterministic model for calculating CFFO. Read it.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys; Author: Visit Amazon's Peter Evans Page; Review: To sound trite (a little bit at least) I found this book to be a true page turner. What I liked about Nemesis wasn't so much the story, but the courage with which Evans relayed the story. Many of his sources were anecdotal (which could be a problem for those grounded in tradition), but the reader is still introduced to what I can only call shockingly incredulous revelations -- especially as these relate to the hedonistic indiscretions of Mrs. Kennedy-Onassis. Like others before me, I was saddened by what I discovered about people that I had previously held in high regard. It was like discovering that something I had considered a valued piece of treasure has turned out to be a cheap piece of counterfeit. There is no other way to describe it. Even if one starts with the hypothesis that some of the allegations are false, there still remains a lot of meat to chew from the bone, and one still learns a lot of disturbing details about the cast of characters. I strongly urge those who have no fear of the truth to take the plunge and face the facts. At the very least, you will discover that the propaganda that society spreads about the Kennedy family pales little in comparison to the ugly reality of their dubious lifestyle.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Straight and Crooked Thinking; Author: Robert H. Thouless; Review: In my biased opinion, this ranks as one of the finest books on the subject of critical thinking. Unfortunately, it is highly priced on Amazon.com, but one can find cheaper alternatives on the internet. Thouless focuses a lot on how social proof, and other biases do impede one's ability to think rationally, especially when facts are not conclusive, or when there are more than two plausible arguments in a given scenario. Good for policy makers, students, regular folks, and people who routinely make decisions under uncertainty.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Straight And Crooked Thinking; Author: Robert H. Thouless; Review: In my biased opinion, this ranks as one of the finest books on the subject of critical thinking. Unfortunately, it is highly priced on Amazon.com, but one can find cheaper alternatives on the internet. Thouless focuses a lot on how social proof, and other biases do impede one's ability to think rationally, especially when facts are not conclusive, or when there are more than two plausible arguments in a given scenario. Good for policy makers, students, regular folks, and people who routinely make decisions under uncertainty.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Vital Few vs. the Trivial Many : Invest with the Insiders, Not the Masses; Author: Visit Amazon's George Muzea Page; Review: George Soros was Muzea's client for over 10 years. Stanley Druckenmiller consults with him. If these people find his advice insightful, and if you can identify the aforesaid names, then what does it cost you not to read his book? Everybody who's serious about making money in the markets should get some insights into what the "pros" do. Especially a pro who's had some pretty superior performance.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Bryan Kest: Spinal Strengthening (CD & Booklet); Author: Visit Amazon's Bryan Kest Page; Review: There are 2 CDs in the package, and I've done just the first CD which encompasses a little over 1 hour. It's quintessential Bryan. The poses are quite similar to those found in Intensive Body Sculpting, like the pretty challenging "half-moon pose" (which I haven't yet managed to perfect, but I'm working on it) but you also get a lot of boat poses for your core/abs (boat pose is when sitting, you raise your legs up straight until you form a "V" shape and you hold your legs for about five breaths, with your arms parallel to the ground) and a bunch of spinal stretches. Overall, I thought the CD was good. It's part strengthening/part stretching, and complements Bryan's other practices. I don't know if there are other yogis who do poses like Bryan does his. I've tried Shiva Rea's Yoga Shakti (which I didn't like) and some Baron Baptiste (which I didn't think was as challenging as Bryan Kest). So it's safe to say I'm a Bryan-Kestophile. His stuff really gets me going. Very strongly recommended.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (Random House Large Print); Author: Visit Amazon's Nando Parrado Page; Review: I echo all the encomiums and accolades. Deeply insightful book. Word of caution: some parts of the book might be difficult to digest, but rest assured that the story in its entirety is a very powerful one. I do not think that the way I think about challenges and obstacles I face in life will be the same hereafter. I cried a few times reading this book. I don't think any other book has evoked similar emotions in me.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom; Author: Visit Amazon's Jonathan Haidt Page; Review: Anyone who routinely reads Amazon.com reviews will find that most focus on the following themes: (a) Readability of the book (b) Value of the content (c) The degree to which the reviewer agreed/disagreed with the premises, assumptions, arguments, and conclusions of the writer, with 1 star being the extreme negative evaluation and 5 stars being the reverse of that. I rate this book five stars because it more than adequately satisfies criteria "a" and "b" and suggested above, and comports with my personal biases in "c" above. The author speaks with a strong bias towards a rational attempt to understand human nature, and builds his arguments by invoking many commonly held beliefs. He starts by suggesting that hypocrisy in humans is a given, like it or not. He goes on to show why many of the so-called beliefs we have are shaped by the "non-thinking" part of the brain, or the limbic system of the brain. He continues to show us how much of the Old Testament in the Bible is really a re-hash of commonly held virtues in other cultures -- a revelation that is certain to churn some degree of indigestion in some people, and on, an infinitum. Needless to say, the book challenges you to think hard at yourself and how you've been conducting your life. You will reap many benefits simply by reading it, but even more if you choose to apply the lessons that it reveals, of which there are too many to enumerate here. Happy reading.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New; Author: Visit Amazon's Jeremy J. Siegel Page; Review: Jeremy Siegel has written a solid, first rate book on investing. Note: this book will not "teach you how to become a great investor," no such book exists. Graham & Dodd will not. There is no book that will teach you how to become as adept a tennis player as Serena Williams, or drive like Lewis Hamilton. You just have to begin with what you have, make a couple of mistakes, learn from them, and get better with time. "The Future for Investors" teaches you how to "think about investing," in much the same spirit as Seth Klarman's "Margin of Safety." I believe Jeremy's book is especially valuable for those who engage in short-selling as an "alpha generation" strategy, not as a way of hedging. The chapter on the Nasdaq bubble and the Telecom bust is one of the most compellingly written post-mortems on what was one of the most irrational phases of modern financial bubbles.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mourad: New Moroccan; Author: Visit Amazon's Mourad Lahlou Page; Review: I wouldn't consider myself a foodie, per se, but I love good food, and have recently been enamored by this highly underrated genre of "mediterranean" cuisine that we call Moroccan Cooking. But no more. I discovered Mourad's book while browsing Paula Wolfert's books right here on Amazon.com, and decided to check him out. Boy was that a great decision! Mourad is the quintessential autodidact chef, with a great sense of humor, and a true fascination for spices. In fact, this is the first book I've read that has finally convinced me to invest in a spice grinder. Yes, I'm going to be grinding my spices going forward. No more McCormick spices for me. Highly recommended, particularly if you're into spices!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Competitive Intelligence Advantage: How to Minimize Risk, Avoid Surprises, and Grow Your Business in a Changing World; Author: Visit Amazon's Seena Sharp Page; Review: This is a good primer on Competitive Intelligence (CI). Like most professions, attaining expertise in CI entails getting out there and meeting the rubber with the road, so to speak. Yet, for those with literary inclinations, Seena Sharp's book will give you a solid beginning to navigate the CI waters. Highly recommended.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox: How a Little-Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life; Author: Visit Amazon's Kate Rheaume-Bleue Page; Review: A seminally important book on a not-so-well understood nutrient. The book is a relatively easy read, geared towards the general health conscious public. It dispels a lot of misinformation that is being parroted by mainstream pharmacological dogma, such as the widely prevailing notion that Vitamin K1 is an important nutrient for our bodies. Not so according to Dr. Kate Rheaume-Bleue. Read the book and you'll discover why some civilizations tend to live longer without suffering from the deleterious effects of osteoporosis, atherosclerosis, and other modern diseases. Quite an informative read to say the least.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics; Author: Visit Amazon's Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Page; Review: I enjoy books that stimulate thought...books that activate a paradigm shift in how one perceives the world, and, importantly, books that help you become a better thinker and problem solver. The Dicatator's Handbook is all of the above. In this tour-de-force, Messrs Bueno de Mesquita and Smith have convincingly solved the riddle that has for so long plagued some of the less-fortunate civilizations that inhabit planet Earth. Do despots thrive in certain areas because those societies have a unique propensity to attract such people? Or could it be that perhaps some societies (including democratic ones) just haven't figured out the game that despots like to play, regardless of where they might happen to live; and thus set in place checks and balances to curtail the mischieveous acts of would-be-despots? Though not an argument directly tackled by the aforementioned duo, their book nonetheless explains that despotic behavior is a consequence of certain "rules" and is not the consequence of having a succession of evil natured people leading a country and out to make life miserable for the unfortunate majority. Memo to the denizens of Zimbabwe: As one Robert Mugabe leaves, another "baby" Mugabe might follow his footsteps if these "rules" are not heeded and corrective action put in place. Beyond third-world politicians, developing world "democracy," and the nature of politics in small-town-USA, The Dictator's Handbook is just as appropriate to those who want to truly grasp boardroom politics. If one is a board member already, or a civic leader of any sort, this book is an indispensable must have. If you're a professional investor trying to understand how a company's CEO judges his effectiveness, you have to read this book.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Penguin; Author: Visit Amazon's Sebastian Mallaby Page; Review: It has taken me a long time to finally get to reading this book, partly because I thought it was nothing more than your usual homage to the "lifestyles of the rich and famous," etc. But decided to listen to chapter 5 (I have the audiobook version), largely because the subject of that chapter was somebody that I admire immensely. That chapter was written with such meticulousness that I concluded that the entire book was worth reading (listening to). Anybody who's sitting on the fence deciding whether or not this book is worth their time, please note one thing: this book is seriously researched and well written. It chronicles, inter alia, the key "historical" figures of the modern hedge fund industry, notably: Kovner (Caxton), Steinhardt, Soros, Paul Tudor Jones, Robertson, and Druckenmiller. Mallaby focuses on the key events that gave notoriety to the hedge fund industry, e.g., the Sterling short of 1993, the boondoggle that was 1997 (Russia default and Yen troubles for a few hedge funds), and the carnage that was the dot.com craze of 1999. I have learned a lot of lessons from this book.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Black and White: The Way I See It; Author: Visit Amazon's Richard Williams Page; Review: Reading the first chapters of this biography was difficult for me, but I'm thankful that I decided to wade through them nonetheless. Mr. Williams's biography exposes the reader to a world that, aside from those who directly experienced it, few could even fathom existed. I don't consider myself to be wet behind the ears on the subject of prejudice and segregation in the Deep South, but even I was completely taken aback by many of the revelations that Mr. Williams chronicled. Living conditions for an ordinary African American in early-20th-century Shreveport, LA, were a literal living hell! The extent to which people abandoned their hopes, dreams, and aspirations, and decided to simply "exist," as a way of surviving the harsh realities of life was simply unfathomable. It is literally a miracle that Mr. Williams was able to survive the triple whammy of not only having an absentee father, but of also being rejected totally and unconditionally by that same "father," add to that the extreme poverty and really lugubrious living conditions that his single-mother-household had to endure. We also learn about his other struggles in Chicago (also unfathomable) and in California, particularly in Compton. Incredibly, Richard Williams was probably a millionaire (in 1980 dollars!) by the time his daughters Serena and Venus were born. This is a new revelation, by the way. A simply amazing individual, you have to admit! The reader is informed of how Richard, simply as an aside, discloses how he had a bank account with $810,000 sitting in it, at the time he conceived his plan to birth two daughters and make them tennis champions. Yet, he still decided to move to the ghetto, despite being a millionaire, and expose his children to the daily ugly grunt of life in a ghetto. This is the portrait of a truly extraordinary and incredibly driven man. His life story is extraordinary, not because he was devoid of judgment errors, etc., but because he had the courage and conviction to overcome the harsh cards he was dealt throughout the entirety of his life, and continued to just keep the faith alive As I write this review, Serena just won the 2014 Italian Open, defeating Sara Errani 6-3, 6-0. I truly believe that those of us who have lived during the "Venus and Serena" era should savor every experience, because it might be a very long time indeed that anybody else comes close to having a similar impact on the sport of tennis. A question I had that went unanswered in the bio was what, if anything, Mr. Williams did during the Vietnam war. Was he drafted? Did he avoid the draft? If so, by what means did he do that? Or did he fight in 'Nam? He's silent on that matter. Otherwise, well done, sir! Godspeed, and thank you for conceiving this incredible idea of taking your daughters to tennis greatness, for your undefeatable and undefatigable spirit, for your relentless drive, and for your laser-sharp focus on accomplishing what you set out to do.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: My Song: A Memoir; Author: Visit Amazon's Harry Belafonte Page; Review: I'm going to break one of my all-time pet peeves with Amazon.com reviewers and write a review before I actually read the book. I'm doing this in part because people like Belafonte are such a rarity in life. I'm in awe with this man's integrity, his sense of honor, his unflappable dignity, his rock-solid belief in the power of leading by example. When I finish the book, I'll update my review. He's one heckuva class act, and I have no doubt whatsoever that the revelations he's made in this bio are top notch. Once again, my apologies to the Amazon.com readership for penning a review of something I haven't yet read, but I simply couldn't resist the temptation.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
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Title: Mary Poppins (Fully Restored Limited Edition) (Walt Disney's Masterpiece) (Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection); Brand: Robert Stevenson; Review: I am biased on this film.. I loved it since i was a kid! I learned to read following along with my mom reading the "souvenier book" from the movie. The transfer is superior, the special features are fun and interesting. Watching it, I was 4 years old again (if only!); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Elvira's Movie Macabre: Satanic Rites of Dracula / The Werewolf of Washington; Brand: Christopher Lee; Review: Elvira's commentary vastly improved the Dracula film and made the Werewolf film inspired. Her take on Washington politics with her character "Sarah Impalin" is the best part of the set..I laughed, I cried, I can see Transylvania from here. A must have for Elvira fans.. of course, the movies are pretty bad, but Elvira makes them watchable.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Carol Channing - Larger Than Life; Brand: Carol Channing; Review: If you are a Carol Channing fan, get this DVD, you will love it! If you are not a Carol Channing fan, watch it and you will become one. The lady is 90 years young and still going strong. I saw her in a touring company of Hello Dolly in the 1980s and, though I walked in thinking she was just a punch line for jokes, I left smitten. Her curtain speech was so heartfelt and sincere. A life-long fan was born!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; Brand: Benjamin Walker; Review: OK, It is not the greatest movie ever made, but it is fun. Once you are past theoutrageous plot, sit back and enjoy the ride; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Vampire Boys 2: The New Brood; Brand: Jon Euler; Review: The story was weak, The cast is attractive, but needs more classes,experience or direction. Not bad if you have to kill a couple of hours.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1; Brand: Sarah Michelle Gellar; Review: Buffy and Angel.. GREAT series. This is the start of them all. SMG as Buffy rocks, David Boreanez as Angel is a classic reluctant vampire. Their star crossed love story starts in season 1. The blend of comedy and horror is balanced perfectly. The "high school is Hell" theme of the first few seasons hits all the right notes.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Elvira's Haunted Hills; Brand: Cassandra Peterson; Review: If you love Elvira and her bawdy humor, then you will enjoy this tribute to Vincent Price and his Corman Poe movies from the 1960-1970s. You'll laugh, and might be inspired to watch the movies that this spoof was inspired by. Everyone involved in the film loves those movies and especially Vincent Price. It has some flashes of brilliant comedy from the cast along with the expected "boob" jokes. It is great to see Richard O'Brian on the screen again. Elvira is still gorgeous without surgical intervention and retains a sense of humor that is infectious. If you want highbrow comedy, this movie is not for you, If you want to escape from the daily BS of real life, plop the DVD in your player and sit back and have fun.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte VHS; Brand: Bette Davis; Review: The very definition of Southern gothic. Bette gives a bravura performance as the befuddled Charlotte; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: 4 Film Favorites: Draculas (Dracula A.D. 1972, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Horror of; Brand: Christopher Lee; Review: My favorite Vincent Price movies, the deco sets and creative revenge methods are classic; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Legend of Lizzie Borden; Brand: Elizabeth Montgomery; Review: Montgomery gives an outstanding performance proving she is much more than Sanantha.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean: Jimmy Dean; Brand: Sandy Dennis; Review: Great film artfully realized. The performances are outstanding; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Into The Woods; Brand: Meryl Streep; Review: Excellent Blue Ray of an entertaining film. While I disagree with some of the choices/cuts Marshall made in the script, all in all, it is a very entertaining move and the special features are wonderful.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Blacula / Scream, Blacula, Scream Double Feature; Brand: William Marshall; Review: Love it.. a perfect "Blaxploitation" movie. Mr. Marshall is a superb actor and his presence is felt throughout the movie. Forget about the script and enjoy!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sadism & Death Smiles On A Murderer; Brand: Christopher Lee; Review: another "so bad it is good" Italian horror movie; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Drink me [DVD]; Brand: ; Review: I wish I had the time spent watching this back; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Baron Blood; Brand: Joseph Cotten; Review: Fun 70's horror gem; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: 1313: Hercules Unbound; Brand: Brett Zimmerman, Tyler P. Scott, Chelsea Rae Bernier, Priyom Haider, Brendan Lamb, Lance Leonhardt with Laurene Landon as Hera and Lou Ferrigno, Jr. as Zeus Geoff Ward; Review: Why? Ignored all the warnings, but; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: What We Do in the Shadows; Brand: Jemaine Clement; Review: super funny take on Vampires, a must see if you like the genre. It does get silly at times; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Deadpool 2016; Brand: ; Review: fun movie and ges funnier with repeat viewings; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mame VHS; Brand: Lucille Ball; Review: Lucy struggled with this musical role, but it is the only record of the fabulous show; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: American Horror Story: Coven; Brand: Jessica Lange; Review: one of the best AHS; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: American Horror Story: Freak Show; Brand: Jessica Lange; Review: very disturbing season. The roller coaster of the season was a fun ride.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Harry Potter - Complete 8-Film Collection; Brand: Daniel Radcliffe; Review: good movie.. all fun; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Harry Potter Collezione Completa (8 Blu-Ray); Brand: ; Review: good movie.. all fun; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Movies_and_TV |
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Title: Victory; Brand: Jackson 5; Review: This is a very nice album, must have for all MJ fans. It has one song Michael sings, which is particularly beautiful, Michael's heavenly voice comes there in full force. The songs by other Jacksons were very good, too, makes me want to explore their own work more.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Victory; Brand: Jackson 5; Review: This is a very nice album, must have for all MJ fans. It has one song Michael sings, which is particularly beautiful, Michael's heavenly voice comes there in full force. The songs by other Jacksons were very good, too, makes me want to explore their own work more.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: ; Brand: Jackson 5; Review: This is a very nice album, must have for all MJ fans. It has one song Michael sings, which is particularly beautiful, Michael's heavenly voice comes there in full force. The songs by other Jacksons were very good, too, makes me want to explore their own work more.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Tourist James Newton Howard; Brand: James Newton Howard; Review: Soothing music which really brings the movie picture to your mind. Very relaxing, subtly uses volume force. The piece that really does it to me is "bedroom dreams", strong strong tunes bringing strong emotions along. Takes me right back to the themes of the movie, which if you ask me is love between people past their youth but with still fresh and strong emotions.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; Brand: Howard Shore; Review: Howard Shore did it again! Haunting, mesmorizing beautiful music will stay with you just as the Lord of the Rings music did. The dwarves march is my favorite, so moving and powerful. And I'm also crazy about the song, Misty Mountains, and am interested in purchasing more of Neil Finn's music, loved his performance very much.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Three Musketeers; Brand: Paul Haslinger; Review: The score of this brilliant movie does full justice to the film, and that's saying a lot. It is even more enjoyable in a CD format, because the movie so much draws you in, that you might not notice how beautiful the music is. At times heroic, at times tender, at times sinister - but always powerful. I replay it all the time, love it to pieces. I played in in my car while giving a lift to somebody who doesn't like "classical music", and even she was stricken down how powerful this music is, this really is just breathtaking.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_CDs_and_Vinyl |
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Title: White Sierra Men's Hexi Quarter Zip; Brand: White Sierra; Review: Nice and comfortable; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Scarpa Mens Men's Mystic Lite Trail Running Shoe; Brand: Scarpa Mens; Review: Very nice and comfortable; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Wrangler Authentics Men's Short-Sleeve Utility Shirt; Brand: ; Review: Very nice; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Haggar Men's Life Khaki Pattern Oxford Long-Sleeve Slim-Fit Woven Shirt; Brand: ; Review: Very nice and comfortable; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Geoffrey Beene Men's 3 Pack Soft Finish Assorted Boxers; Brand: ; Review: Pleasant and comfortable; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Haggar Men's Long Sleeve Qtr Zip Houndstooth; Brand: ; Review: cute appearance, something big size; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Oxford NY Men's Quarter Zip Wool-Blend Mock-Neck Sweater; Brand: Oxford NY; Review: Very good quality; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
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Title: Alpine Custom Swing Set Hardware Kit (wood not included); Brand: Swing-N-Slide; Review: My son and his neighbors friends like it a lot, but I really strugle with the wood sizes needed fot this set. We have to change some and the metals was a little losse, please check the lumber first, it's not good when a person have no idea when in the store they change some sizes and it doesn't look like it should.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Toy Story Party-Saurus Boat Playset; Brand: Mattel; Review: My son like it but turns really easy in the water, overall the toy works really good for my 3 year old.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Rhode Island Novelty 36 Inch Knobby Bouncy Ball with Handle. Perfect for Tall Kids to Adults.; Brand: Rhode Island Novelty; Review: This is terrible, My daughter was so excited because she wait 1week to received the ball and the same day we got it, we fill it up and it was broken, a little tinny hole was in and she wasn't able to ride the ball. If you buy this item be sure you kids doesn't know about because could be broken.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: AppleRound Space Hopper Ball: Green, 22in/55cm Diameter for Ages 10-12, Pump Included (Hop Ball, Kangaroo Bouncer, Hoppity; Brand: AppleRound; Review: good; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Peppa Pig Cupcake Dough Play Set; Brand: Peppa Pig; Review: It's really small; Rating: 2.0/5.0 | amazon_Toys_and_Games |
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Title: Bushnell Handgun Trophy Riflescope (2-6X32, Silver); Brand: Bushnell; Review: Holds up very well , i mounted it on a Magnum Research BFR 45/70 , very pleased with it.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Primos 65808 2-Point Gun Rest Trigger Stick Attachment; Brand: Primos Hunting; Review: Little flimsy but works fine; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: BoneView SD Micro SD Memory Card Reader Trail Camera Viewer for Android Micro-USB; Brand: BoneView; Review: Works great; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hornady B234 Lock-N-Load Comparator Body with Set of 6 Inserts; Brand: Hornady; Review: Easy to use and very precision; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Caldwell Ballistic Precision Chronograph with FPS and MPS Readings, Sun Screens and Large LCD Screen for Range Shooting; Brand: Caldwell; Review: Works great ,no issues; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Howard Leight by Honeywell Impact Sport Sound Amplification Electronic Shooting Earmuff, Classic Green (R-01526); Brand: Howard Leight; Review: Great product, highly recommend; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: KastKing Speed Demon 9.3:1 Baitcasting Fishing Reel – World’s Fastest Baitcaster – 12+1 Shielded Ball Bearings – Carbon Fiber; Brand: KastKing; Review: It's as good as they say; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Sports_and_Outdoors |
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Title: The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 1; Brand: Dick Van Dyke; Review: Again, another childhood favorite that my 7 and 10 year old have quickly come to love.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Here Comes the Boom; Brand: Salma Hayek; Review: We love this movie - it's clean, funny, and has a good message.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Alice in Wonderland [Blu-ray]; Brand: Johnny Depp; Review: Wonderful family movie with a good message.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 2013; Brand: ; Review: We love watching this movie - this was actually the 3rd/4th time already. He goes through an inspiring personal transformation. But, as world' travelers ourselves, love seeing the different parts of the world. And, Sean Penn, is perfect as the adventurous photo journalist.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Beyond the Mask; Brand: Kara Killmer; Review: This is not only a perfect family movie, but also an inspiring one!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ronin VHS; Brand: Robert De Niro; Review: One of our all-time favorites. My husband and I watched this on the Stars! network out of Hong Kong when we lived in China. So, it brings back great memories. Never tire of this movie.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Up (Mandarin Chinese Edition); Brand: Bob Peterson; Review: This movie has a great message for young and old alike.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Martian; Brand: Matt Damon; Review: Matt Damon and this entire film absolutely deserves every single award they were nominated for. I found myself thinking this was a true story, when it isn't. Mr. Damon just was so believable and expertly drew me into the story.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Up TM 3/SD/EC; Brand: Ed Asner; Review: This movie has a great message for young and old alike.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Under the Tuscan Sun VHS; Brand: Diane Lane; Review: I love the story line - how Francis grows and develops as a person, along with how her story ends up being about caring for other people, too, and not just herself.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Lost and Found Family; Brand: Lucas Till; Review: This is a great movie. It starts a bit slow, but picks up. Great family friendly movie. :); Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Movies_and_TV |
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Title: Torre di Bellosguardo; City: Florence Tuscany; Review: My husband and I stayed here for a weekend with our twin sons and booked directly with the hotel. We were allocated a suite on the top floor overlooking Florence. (Room 14.) We didn't have the high ceilings of the first floor but we had the peace and quiet, being at the top of the hotel. The boys had their own beds made-up in the sitting room, so we all slept so well. The hotel sits on a hill overlooking the city with absolutely glorious views of Florence, including the Duomo. The gardens and location are just superb and the palazzo itself is magical. All the staff were incredibly courteous and helpful. It has to be one of my favourite hotels in the world; I have travelled a lot and am also quite particular. The bedrooms and reception rooms are full of lovely old pieces of furniture but don't expect perfection. The sheets are cotton and there was plenty of hot water but if you mind about creeking floorboards and the odd spider web - you would be missing a magical experience but would be happier in a five star in the centre. Finally, if you do not have your own car, you will need to be prepared to pay for taxis. The drive into the centre is about 10 mins. (The walk down to the centre is not particularly special and totally exhausting walking back up!); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Les Borjs de la Kasbah; City: Marrakech Marrakech Tensift El Haouz Region; Review: Just returned after a fun three night stay in Marrakech. Really couldn't fault this hotel in anyway. It is small, friendly, clean and quiet. There are attractive little corners of the hotel that we enjoyed sitting in - great courtyard for breakfast. We had dinner there one night being served by the most attentive waiter and the food was delicious. Pool area is quiet and a perfect place to relax after a mad morning in the souks. The hotel is located on the edge of the Kasbah so you need to do a lot of walking to get around; take comfortable shoes! The entrance to the hotel is off a crowded, busy and dusty street, which although seems intimitidating at first was in fact quite safe - just watch out for cars/bikes that all seem to travel at very high speed in every direction. Mohammed, on reception, was a real character and added to the friendly atmosphere of this dear little hotel. Excellent little hotel - will always recommend!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hotel La Bastide du Bois Breant; City: Maubec Luberon Vaucluse Provence Alpes Cote d Azur; Review: Holidays are too few and too precious to get it so wrong, which we did on this short but much overdue break. We booked this hotel months ago, after researching it on the internet and reading the previous excellent reports on Trip Adviser. To confirm our four night booking, we paid a deposit for one night. In the meantime, the hotel changed ownership... We were not advised about this by accidentally noticed that it had been removed from Alistair Sawday's website...which should have major rung alarm bells...... We booked Le Suite Buisson Ardente as we liked the fact that on the website it mentioned it has direct access to the gardens. (In fact it opens directly onto the staff car park and builders dumping ground). The room sits directly between the staff/gardeners car park and the restaurant so we were kept awake every evening by diners on the terrace and woken early every morning by the gardeners and staff arriving for work as well as the delivery trucks unloading their provisions. We slept very badly for the entire four night stay and tried to recover some of the lost sleep by spending time by the pool. This too was disturbed as workmen were replacing the fencing around the hotel, making a racket with the metal saws. (Disruptive work should be done during the winters months surely..??) The food was over priced and terrible, (shocking actually) the new managers seem to be inexperienced and both seem new to the hospitality industry. After our first sleepless night and evening of enduring the awful dinner, we said as politely as we could muster that we would like to move to another hotel but were told by the unpleasant new owner that we had to pay the full 4 nights and forfeit the full value of our stay or continue with our stay and put up with everything..... (She showed us an email that was sent with the confirmation of payment stating their terms and conditions..their 'Contract' as she called it) and said she was very busy that morning so we were to hurry up with our decision. Be warned!!! It became apparent that the new owner seemed more interested in making money than looking after the welfare of her guests. On the positive side, the room was very clean and the pool area is very pretty. We do not complain very often but found this entire experience very upsetting and have returned to the UK in need of a holiday to recover! I would be reassured to know that I may have saved others from having to endure what we went through. Oh, I forgot to mention that we were kept awake from 11 pm to the very early hours of this morning (before having to get up at 6 am...for flight home) due to a live band playing in the village (house next door?). This was not the fault of the hotel, but just added to the entire horror of our experience at Bastide Bois Breant..; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Hotel Savoy; City: Rome Lazio; Review: We stayed for two nights on an excellent offer through the 'Telegraph Hand Picked Selection' on the 8th/9th August. We were travelling with our teenage sons and were allocated two classic rooms (408 and 409), one of which was a lovely corner room on the 4th floor with super views of via Ludovisi. (We requested two rooms near the top to avoid traffic noise and the hotel was obviously very accommodating.) The decor is a bit tired but the hotel was clean and the staff were extremely helpful and friendly which made up for the fact that it was slightly dated in areas. We ate at the rooftop terrace which has incredible views of the city at night and there is a very helpful and very friendly waitress up there, but we thought it was a bit pricey. Our only complaint is that a large and very noisy party of 21 were staying on the same floor, with their young children running up and down the corridor at 2 am...so we had a terrible nights sleep on the first night. We called the night porter and eventually they all went to bed... but we had to spend a full day of sightseeing feeling extremely tired. The reception desk was sympathetic and reassured us that they were leaving that day which was a huge relief but we would have appreciated an apology or token of some sort from the hotel management considering how exhausted we were. Unfortunately nothing was forthcoming. Otherwise, the best features of this hotel are the friendly staff and superb location.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Durham Ox; City: Crayke Easingwold North Yorkshire England; Review: My husband and I stopped off here on our way north, with our one year old lab. It was a perfect pit-stop, delicious food, friendly welcome, very comfy beds and lovely views from our room, Green Cottage. The village of Crayke is very attractive.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
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Title: Kouros Village Hotel; City: Perissa Santorini Cyclades South Aegean; Review: Just stayed for a week... never been to Greece before so was a little disappointed with the star rating of 4.... not the same standard of rating given in UK or Aust etc... the Hotel itself was lovely looking with a great pool... Loved watching Leo dance around each morning while having breakfast and watching him enjoy his job... the rooms are very basic... very hard beds and uncomfortable pillows... no tea or coffee making facilities... very hard rough towels, however the rooms were clean and the 2 girls who done the rooms each day worked very hard.... great water pressure in the shower... if you do get a room with a 2 hob burner, you will get limited items to use to cook or make a coffee... only use bottle water for the tap water is very salty... location was good... in a street that leads to both the beach in one direction and a main street in another.... they do offer snack foods till 4pm in the afternoon but no main meals for lunch or dinner, they also had a basic bar for coffee or alcohol.... If you want a sun lounger you have to be up early for people placed their towels on them from as early at 5.30am.... and did not move them even if they left for a few hours (this is not regulated at all) They do have a in room safe at 15 Euro for the week if booking with Thomson you will have to walk with your bags fro the bus stop for about 4 min up the road to this location...; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: DoubleTree by Hilton Southampton; City: Southampton Hampshire England; Review: Stayed here for 1 night before heading on a cruise... loved that I could leave my car here while I was away and they also arranged transport to and from the ship. The room was spacious and very comfortable... the room had a folder of information that was very informative and helpful. Room service was prompt and enjoyed all I ordered. They had Starbucks coffee at the hotel for a takeaway 😁; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Le Meridien Singapore Sentosa; City: Sentosa Island; Review: Really enjoyed this hotel... great staff who are friendly and professional. Received an upgrade twice and the rooms were spacious and luxurious. The pool was lovely but not enough room for sun lounges ... great location on Santosa... breakfast buffet has a lot on offer... would be nice to see a more Asian feel to the lunch and dinner menus... would also be nice to have a folder in the room about the hotel and services and what the local area has to offer.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Big Blue Hotel; City: Blackpool Lancashire England; Review: Hubby and I stayed here for 1 night when we went to see the illumination... the room was small but really stylishly done... the staff were friendly. Was in a great location for families to be close to the fun park and water park .. they also had parking which was helpful. The noise from the rollercoaster for a bit much... they offered free fruit in the loby so you can take a snack with you... it is one if the best hotels in the area just found their access to floors were 2 small lifts; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Kn Hotel Matas Blancas; City: Costa Calma Pajara Jandia Peninsula Fuerteventura Canary Island; Review: We went for 6 nights and on arrival (around 8.30pm) we were the only ones checking in so it was fast... the guy behind the desk was very friendly but not overly informative in regards to directions to our room etc. we had to leave a 20 Euro deposit for pool towels, If you wanted to use the Safe it cost you each day and if you wanted a kettle pack (kettle, 2 cups, 2 tea bags and some sugar) you had to leave a 20 euro deposit and also pay each day. this was not replenished each day so you had to purchase your own coffee and milk and get a tea spoon from the "restaurant"... We were in a junior suite (after seeing other reviews we upgraded) and glad of it.... the room was lacking any personality but it was lovely to have the space, the bed was comfortable, the air conditioner in the bedroom was not overly cold, the shower was amazing, we found 3 English speaking channels on the TV (horse and hound, News, Travel), we were in a ground floor room (118) that was a great position and had sun all day in our front allocated space. The cleaners done the best they could but i felt the whole hotel needed more staff... The Restaurant felt like a canteen/dinner hall that opened at 7.30am for breakfast and 8pm for dinner, lunch you went to like a tuckshop that had tables inside and it was a very minimal menu to choose from. Breakfast was my best meal, good selection each day but the same each day, not much variation and nothing is labelled, Dinner i struggled with, they tried to do theme nights that really did not work. Once again not a great deal of variation from night to night and not labelled, the food i had was ok but not the best, you could see that some dishes were reinvented the next night to something else. We had upgraded to Full Board Plus after seeing reviews and in a away glad we did for there is not much in the local area.... We were not told that when having lunch we could only pick from the "a la carte" menu but no menu was provided but you had 2 choices of starters or 2 choices of mains - you had to ask about this though otherwise you were not told... if you had anything off the actual menu it would be charged to your room. At the hotel you have a store that is cramped and small but jam packed with almost anything you may need and the prices are really good.... i am not a smoker but they sell a pack for 2 euro that seems very cheap... They have a spa area that you have to pay 15 Euro to go in, they have a hot pool that was lovely, a cold small plunge pool, a sauna, meditation room, steam room (that was great) and a nudist room (if you are into this) oh we; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Copthorne King s Hotel Singapore; City: Singapore; Review: we spent 3 nights before going on a cruise which was enough time at this particular hotel... the location was ok, it was about a 20 min walk to China town, which in the heat was too far to walk... the room was big enough for this time but did not have any tea or coffee facilities. The bed was comfortable, the bathroom was clean and stocked with shampoo etc. breakfast time they had a good selection of things and styles to eat, we had the buffet for dinner one night but did not really enjoy it very much. the staff were professional and friendly and the door person was always helpful. The air conditioning was really cold - which was nice after a hot day out. The room had a safe and also provided a robe and slippers... the TV was limited in English bit they did provide a channel guide that was helpful.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Furama Villas Spa Ubud; City: Mambal Ubud Gianyar Regency Bali; Review: We stayed for 6 nights in a deluxe pool villa... on arrival we were met by staff who were very pleasant and helpful... check in was fast and professional. When taken to our Villa is was so surprised to see such a great amount of space that was all ours for the next week... the pool was maintained EVERY Day, the room was clean and the bed turned down each night with a lovely goodnight message and the room sprayed for any bugs... we had an area to eat near the pool if we decided to have meals in our private villa, The bathtub was huge and the shower was outdoors, that felt funny to shower in but loved it. the bathroom was stocked with all the toiletries you may need. You had towels for the pool and towels for the bathroom and changed when every you needed fresh towels,,, The food in Padi Restaurant was really nice... we ate breakfast and dinner each night... The staff all wish you a good day and always asking if they can help in any way - Widi who is guest relations was a lovely young women who could not do enough for us and made us feel special .... We had the 60min full body massage and it was blissful, went went back for seconds lol the downfall of this hotel is that they are about 20 min drive from Ubud centre - even though they do give you a free shuttle and you have to select from times to go and collect but nothing at night... improvements are being made at the hotel on room and the old lobby and if your villa is near this the workers can work up to 9pm at night... If staying a week the the room does not have enough cupboard space for your clothes... we had travelled for the week before arriving and had to have clothes laundered, it was great value... the knobs were falling off or missing from draws or curtains... but we really overlooked this due to how relaxed we were The bed was amazing and comfy and slept well each night... they had a fridge, safe, dvd player and many sitting areas. Totally recommend; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: Bellasera; City: Kelowna Okanagan Valley British Columbia; Review: We were among the original owners at Bellasera so I think I should disclose that right off the top. That being said, we have enjoyed many visits to this beautiful property; some of short duration, sometimes for months at a time. Our 2 units are upper corners and our views are stunning. The quality of design and furnishings are what you would expect at a high end resort and the proximity to the golf courses (the Bear and the Quail) is extremely convenient. We find ourselves watching aircraft taking off and landing from the airport as part of the entertainment package, and remain very pleasantly surprised at the quiet of the property. The staff are very accommodating and attentive. All this, and we are just 15 minutes to downtown Kelowna!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Langdon Hall Country House Hotel Spa; City: Cambridge Region of Waterloo Ontario; Review: Langdon Hall hits all the buttons. All staff are approachable and friendly, yet extremely professional. I agree with all the gushing comments about the restaurant. The menu always has a surprise or two and food and service exceed expectations. The rooms and the hotel structure is from another era, refined elegance, yet not pretentious. The park-like setting tops it off. I need to bring my family here...; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Copper and Lumber Store Historic Inn; City: English Harbour Saint Paul Parish Antigua Anti; Review: This is one of my favourite buildings anywhere. The brickwork, the courtyard, the shutters, the lobby - like stepping back in time in style. Friday nights, they have a superb seafood experience. Outdoor barbecue, with some tents set up for inclement (never) weather. Linen table cloths, music, attentive staff, Truly a lot of fun in a very nautical setting. Sunset over the fort, yachts lighting up under a blanket of stars. This is our new favourite Friday night activity.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: St James s Club Villas; City: Mamora Bay Saint Paul Parish Antigua Antigua and Barbuda; Review: We picked St. James's Club in Antigua in 2000, purely by chance. We have since purchased 4 weeks of timeshare, and have enjoyed some 30 weeks of vacation here, both with friends and with family. The Barrett Family has continually re-invested in the property - and it shows! Villas, suites and rooms have been well maintained and improved, restaurants have a very decent quality of food, and the various amenities have been improved. This is a very safe and comfortable base for our Antiguan vacations.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Helm s Inn; City: Victoria Victoria Capital Regional District Vancouver Island British Columbi; Review: We have stayed at the Helm's in a number of times over the past 15 years. Comfortable, relaxed, friendly staff. Full kitchen. We save on food and have a more relaxed schedule by cooking a lot ourselves. Fresh fish from the Fisherman's Wharf, or Finest at Sea. All of the downtown is within a 15 minute walk. Royal British Columbia Museum and Inner Harbour at within 2 minutes.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: St James s Club Villas; City: Mamora Bay Saint Paul Parish Antigua Antigua and Barbuda; Review: We have been enjoying St. James's Club for 18 years! We bought the first of several weeks of timeshare in 2000 and have recharged ourselves in the comfortable setting that is St. James's Club for nearly a year in total of our lives - we feel very fortunate indeed!!! The staff are very friendly and many greet us by name - we are visiting old friends and feel welcome every time. The team behind the resort has continued to re-invest and upgrades are apparent every year. We can recommend this resort to anyone looking for reliable weather, ready access to many activities (Antigua is a small island, after all), good restaurants, watersports, etc. Great for couples and families with young children (and grandchildren).; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: Don Quixote; Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: This is a wonderful book, as there can be a play in a play there can be a book in a book- as well as a A Book without a Book- like wearing a t -shirt inside out and flipping realities. The trees are the Don's ultimate companions..,,.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Dear Committee Members; Author: Julie Schumacher; Genres: fiction; Review: Series of letters by a English prof who feigns being an ass (rather well). Epistolary letters of recommendation and missives about the foibles of contemporary university life. A fun fast read.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Glass Bead Game; Author: Hermann Hesse; Genres: paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: This is a fine read, if you want to describe a great teacher or a fine student this is a great place to start.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Scale: Seven Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back; Author: Jeff Hoffman; Genres: non-fiction; Review: An entertaining and enlightening book that provides suggestions on every aspect of running a business. Among the best are set aside time every week to isolate yourself and think/brainstorm be creative. Business cannot exist 'today,' they have to be ready for change, and should lead change. Another hint is so see out diversity and let the interplay of ideas stimulate innovation. This is not accounting 101 -- but there are pages on managing money efficiently; this is big picture concepts.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Circle; Author: Dave Eggers; Genres: thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: Well worth reading as a story set tech industry's philosophy and potentials.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Look Who's Back; Author: Timur Vermes; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: The comic (yes comic) return of Hitler to influence (not power) in the world of tv/social media. Ideas and humor. LOL German trans to English.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Doomsday Conspiracy; Author: Sidney Sheldon; Genres: thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery; Review: Easy to read, fast moving narrative. Dan Brown read it and thought he could do better.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: In the Café of Lost Youth (New York Review Books Classics); Author: Patrick Modiano; Genres: history, young-adult, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: A tactile read on Parisian life. The feel of Paris: cafes, streets, salons, life and death. Beauty, poetry and life. Good characterization and ambiance. Sun and rain.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age; Author: Daniel J. Levitin; Genres: history, non-fiction, biography, historical fiction; Review: Become a better judge.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Pussy; Author: Howard Jacobson; Genres: paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: Vivid Observations Hillarious satire on a yellow haired big mouth who manipulates the many to take power. Blatant parallels and a dimestore psychoanalysis of the power of televised buffooneries!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom; Author: Ken Ilgunas; Genres: history, non-fiction, biography, historical fiction; Review: Ilgunas' power of description is superb. Plants, animals, rivers, emotions, people and everything else he writes about materializes. There are two exoskeletons to this book: his surroundings and the other, his enslavement to college loans and his search for financial freedom. He lives (camps) in a van to save money as a graduate student using a Dukes library and gym to keep clean. A gem in the book is his first person critique of Walden's fame. It is fun. and beautiful.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | goodreads |
Given the interaction history of a user with movies/shows as follows:
Title: Something's Gotta Give (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mean Girls (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ray (2004); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Secondhand Lions (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Man on Fire (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Recruit (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: 50 First Dates (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Bourne Supremacy (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Don't Say a Word (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Finding Neverland (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Napoleon Dynamite (2004); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: The Village (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Last Samurai (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: About Schmidt (2002); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Bruce Almighty (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Shrek 2 (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Passion of the Christ (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Road to Perdition (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Italian Job (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Forgotten (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Runaway Jury (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sleeping With the Enemy (1991); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Under the Tuscan Sun (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Shark Tale (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: I (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Bourne Identity (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Starsky & Hutch (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Spanglish (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: High Crimes (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Monster's Ball (2001); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Secret Window (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Unbreakable (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Minority Report (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hoosiers (1986); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Kiss the Girls (1997); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Butterfly Effect: Director's Cut (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The 6th Day (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ocean's Twelve (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Cold Mountain (2003); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: The School of Rock (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Manchurian Candidate (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Swordfish (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Spider-Man 2 (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Big Fish (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Along Came a Spider (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mystic River (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Hidalgo (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Double Jeopardy (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Two Weeks Notice (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Troy (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Count of Monte Cristo (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Enough (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ocean's Eleven (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Day After Tomorrow (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Sweet Home Alabama (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Changing Lanes (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Van Helsing (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: 13 Going on 30 (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Clear and Present Danger (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Anger Management (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Out of Time (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Negotiator (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Terminal (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lilo and Stitch (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Stuart Little 2 (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Bridget Jones's Diary (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Pay It Forward (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Phantom of the Opera: Special Edition (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mississippi Burning (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: First Knight (1995); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: American Beauty (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Speed (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Major League (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Domestic Disturbance (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Tuck Everlasting (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Mummy (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Uptown Girls (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Superman: The Movie (1978); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dr. T & the Women (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Fried Green Tomatoes (1991); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Wedding Planner (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Beautiful Mind (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: S.W.A.T. (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Hook (1991); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sleepless in Seattle (1993); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: American Wedding (2003); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Poltergeist (1982); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Life as a House (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The American President (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Nine to Five (1980); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Grumpy Old Men (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Beverly Hills Cop (1984); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Beverly Hills Cop III (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Crazy/Beautiful (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Friends: Season 2 (1995); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hollow Man (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Under Siege (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Rudy (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: What Women Want (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Brother Bear (Theatrical Widescreen Version) (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: On Golden Pond (1981); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Smallville: Season 1 (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Planes (1987); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Wayne's World (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: My Girl 2 (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Look Who's Talking (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ghost Ship (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Braveheart (1995); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Serendipity (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Silence of the Lambs (1991); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Sleeping Beauty: Special Edition (1959); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Heathers (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Moonstruck (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ghost (1990); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: About a Boy (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Chain Reaction (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Parent Trap (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Family Man (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: 28 Days Later (2002); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Forever Young (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Spy Kids (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Beaches (1988); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Wizard of Oz: Collector's Edition (1939); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Elizabeth (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Flatliners (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Sum of All Fears (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Toy (1982); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Others (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: End of Days (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Finding Nemo (Widescreen) (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Planet of the Apes (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Dinosaur (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Patch Adams (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Shanghai Noon (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Jurassic Park III (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Sleepy Hollow (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Sixth Sense (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: While You Were Sleeping (1995); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dances With Wolves: Special Edition (1990); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Steel Magnolias (1989); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Erin Brockovich (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Wild Wild West (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Proof of Life (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hard to Kill (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Overboard (1987); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Bringing Down the House (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Broadcast News (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Bodyguard (1992); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Bambi: Platinum Edition (1942); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Stuart Little (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Great Outdoors (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Gone in 60 Seconds (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hope Floats (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Angels in the Outfield (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: What Lies Beneath (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Angel Eyes (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Miss Congeniality (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Tommy Boy (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Friends: Season 3 (1996); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Twins (1988); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Sommersby (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Rocky (1976); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Trading Places (1983); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Raising Helen (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Mummy Returns (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Young Guns (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Terminator (1984); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Walk to Remember (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Babe (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Pretty Woman (1990); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Edward Scissorhands (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Big Momma's House (2000); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Rush Hour (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Joseph: King of Dreams (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sister Act (1992); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Good Morning (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Space Cowboys (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gremlins (1984); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Bug's Life (1998); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Charlie's Angels (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Legends of the Fall (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Deep Blue Sea (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Entrapment (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Spies Like Us (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Billy Madison (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Fast and the Furious (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Calendar Girls (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Big Chill (1983); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Armageddon (1998); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Whole Nine Yards (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Dr. Dolittle (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Robin Hood (Disney) (1973); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Princess Bride (1987); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Stand by Me (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Men of Honor (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Beverly Hills Cop II (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Romancing the Stone (1984); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Driving Miss Daisy (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Flubber (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Phenomenon (1996); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Fatal Attraction (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Dirty Dancing (1987); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Top Gun (1986); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Willow (1988); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Friends: The Series Finale (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Cruel Intentions (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Pump Up the Volume (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Finding Forrester (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Interview with the Vampire (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Cats & Dogs (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Jungle Book 2 (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Spawn: The Movie (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gorillas in the Mist (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Where the Heart Is (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ladder 49 (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Pick-up Artist (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Seven (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ice Age (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Soul Food (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Happy Gilmore (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Terminator 2: Extreme Edition (1991); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Rookie (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Save the Last Dance (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Brewster's Millions (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Caddyshack (1980); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Treasure Planet (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Cocktail (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Turner and Hooch (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Goonies (1985); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Teacher's Pet (2004); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Pearl Harbor (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Platoon (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Deliverance (1972); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Someone to Watch Over Me (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Knight's Tale (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: There's Something About Mary: Special Edition (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Stepmom (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Daddy Day Care (2003); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: 28 Days (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mr. Deeds (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Fifth Element (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Indecent Proposal (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Broken Arrow (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Weird Science (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Summer Catch (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: An Affair to Remember (1957); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Crocodile Dundee (1986); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Runaway Bride (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: My Best Friend's Wedding (1997); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Bone Collector (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Jet Fusion (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Diary of Anne Frank (1959); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: We Were Soldiers (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Windtalkers (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Can't Buy Me Love (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Stigmata (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Incredibles (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Mexican (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Pulp Fiction (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Monsters (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Passenger 57 (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Maid in Manhattan (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Risky Business (1983); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Inspector Gadget (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Princess Diaries (Widescreen) (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Frequency (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Forrest Gump (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Rules of Engagement (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: American Pie (1999); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Airplane! (1980); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Iron Giant: Special Edition (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A League of Their Own (1992); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Final Destination (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Alive (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Three Men and a Baby (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Star Trek: First Contact (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Oliver & Company (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Shining (1980); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mission: Impossible II (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Sound of Music (1965); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Kate & Leopold (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Batman & Robin (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Outsiders (1983); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mr. Holland's Opus (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Rock (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Coming to America (1988); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Practical Magic (1998); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Kid (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Twister (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Blade 2 (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Behind Enemy Lines (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The NeverEnding Story (1984); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: National Lampoon's Animal House (1978); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: John Q (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Thelma & Louise: Special Edition (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: X-Men (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Carrie (1976); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Men in Black (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Benny and Joon (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Coyote Ugly (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Wall Street (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Return from Witch Mountain (1978); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: The Aristocats (1970); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: True Lies (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Terms of Endearment (1983); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The General's Daughter (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: A Fish Called Wanda (1988); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Never Been Kissed (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Office Space (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Toy Story (1995); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Basic Instinct (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gladiator (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Jerry Maguire (1996); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Jackal (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Cast Away (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Crow (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Total Recall (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mary Poppins (1964); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Misery (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Patriot (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Lethal Weapon 4 (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Exorcist: The Beginning (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Spider-Man (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: What's Love Got to Do with It (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: 12 Monkeys (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Shawshank Redemption: Special Edition (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Toy Story 2 (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: You've Got Mail (1998); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Shrek (Full-screen) (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Pet Sematary (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Waterboy (1998); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Field of Dreams (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Batman (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Matrix (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Tomb Raider (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: City of Angels (1998); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Pretty in Pink (1986); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Three Amigos (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: City Slickers (1991); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Notting Hill (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Grease (1978); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Independence Day (1996); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Walking Tall (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Fox and the Hound (1981); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Indian in the Cupboard (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Friday the 13th (1980); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: She's All That (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Selena (1997); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Black Sheep (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Big (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Amadeus (1984); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Legally Blonde 2: Red (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Raw (1987); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Friends: Season 8 (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Father of the Bride (1991); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Return to Me (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Haunting (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Demolition Man (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Con Air (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Kindergarten Cop (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Green Mile (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Laws of Attraction (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Wedding Singer (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Alien vs. Predator (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: West Side Story (1961); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Last of the Mohicans (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Highlander (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Face/Off (1997); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Exorcist (1973); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Maverick (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Titanic (1997); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Days of Thunder (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Halloween (1978); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Quicksilver (1986); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Meet the Parents (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Devil's Advocate (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Philadelphia (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Me (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: CSI: Season 4 (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Legally Blonde (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Tootsie (1982); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Vanilla Sky (2001); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Scooby-Doo (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Operation Dumbo Drop (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Best of Friends: Season 1 (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Best of Friends: Season 2 (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Signs (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Friends: Season 4 (1997); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Cheaper by the Dozen (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Something to Talk About (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Road to El Dorado (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Time to Kill (1996); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Short Circuit (1986); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Enemy of the State (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: K-Pax (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: U.S. Marshals (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gilmore Girls: Season 3 (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Free Willy (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Bad Boys (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Emperor's New Groove (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Lion King: Special Edition (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Addams Family (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Godfather (1974); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Pocahontas (1995); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Love Potion #9 (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Pollyanna (1960); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Two of a Kind (1983); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Atlantis: Milo's Return (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Spaceballs (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Friends: Season 7 (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Last Unicorn (1982); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Michael (1996); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Murder By Numbers (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Racing Stripes (2005); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Piglet's Big Movie (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Deep Impact (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Net (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Enemy at the Gates (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Horse Whisperer (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mighty Joe Young (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Basic (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Smallville: Season 3 (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Godzilla (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Contact (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Godfather (1972); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lethal Weapon 2 (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Kiki's Delivery Service (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Alice in Wonderland (1951); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Air Force One (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Only You (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Jurassic Park (1993); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hannibal (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Labyrinth (1986); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: XXX: Special Edition (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Beetlejuice (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Anastasia (1997); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Dead Man Walking (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Dead Poets Society (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: My Girl (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Miracle (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Best of Friends: Season 3 (1996); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Gilmore Girls: Season 2 (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mona Lisa Smile (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Gift (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Fugitive (1993); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Parent Trap (1961); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Tigger Movie (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: My Fair Lady: Special Edition (1964); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ghostbusters (1984); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fallen (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Sixteen Candles (1984); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Arachnophobia (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Original Sin (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Seventh Sign (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Smallville: Season 2 (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Craft (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Good Will Hunting (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: L.A. Confidential (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Aloha Scooby-Doo! (2005); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Stir of Echoes (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Lost Boys: Special Edition (1987); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mercury Rising (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: King Arthur (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Remember the Titans (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dave (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Game (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hercules (1997); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Winnie the Pooh: Spookable / Frankenpooh (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Cutting Edge (1992); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: All of Me (1984); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Tortilla Soup (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Great Mouse Detective (1986); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Rescuers Down Under (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Winnie the Pooh: ABC's (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Groundhog Day (1993); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: American Outlaws (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Book of Pooh: Stories From the Heart (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: What About Bob? (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: X2: X-Men United (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: White Noise (2005); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Be Cool (2005); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Antz (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Stripes (1981); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Merlin: Special Edition (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Home on the Range (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Tarzan 2 (2005); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Notebook (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Scarlet Letter (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Dogma (1999); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Aladdin: Platinum Edition (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Blackbeard's Ghost (1968); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Die Hard (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mortal Thoughts (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Lost in Translation (2003); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: National Treasure (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hitch (2005); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Collateral (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Life or Something Like It (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Perfect Storm (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Sense and Sensibility (1981); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Second Nature (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Story of Us (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Liar Liar (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: For the Boys (1991); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Hurricane (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Collateral Damage (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: This Is Spinal Tap (1984); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: America's Sweethearts (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: When Harry Met Sally (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hocus Pocus (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Maid to Order (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Friends: Season 6 (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Three Men and a Little Lady (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?: Special Edition (1988); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Le Divorce (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Quiet Man (1952); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Rain Man (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Shipping News (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Almost Famous (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: I Am Sam (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Jewel of the Nile (1985); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Extended Edition (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Best of Friends: Season 4 (1997); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Picture Perfect (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Blade (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Primary Colors (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Protocol (1984); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Friends: Season 5 (1998); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sometimes They Come Back / Sometimes They Come Back Again (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Hard Rain (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Charmed: Season 1 (1998); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Batman Returns (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Elephant Man (1980); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Rocky III (1982); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Rocky II (1979); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Civil Action (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Shallow Hal (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Friends: Season 9 (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Father of the Bride 2 (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Legend: The Director's Cut (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Friends: Season 1 (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Little Women (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Schindler's List (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Moulin Rouge (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Billy Elliot (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ghostbusters 2 (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Blue Streak (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Black Stallion (1979); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Rocky IV (1985); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Left Behind: The Movie (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Housesitter (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Sabrina (1995); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Ten Commandments (1956); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Without a Paddle (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Extended Edition (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Prince of Egypt (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Red Planet (2000); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Big Daddy (1999); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: A Perfect Murder (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Best of Friends: Vol. 1 (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Replacements (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (1977); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Beautician and the Beast (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Few Good Men (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Emma (1996); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Great Expectations (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Bounce (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Bachelor Party (1984); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Hulk (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Shakespeare in Love (1998); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Jaws (1975); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Dangerous Minds (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Training Day (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gilmore Girls: Season 1 (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: History of the World: Part 1 (1981); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: D.O.A. (1988); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Cannonball Run (1981); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Girl (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Apollo 13 (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Loverboy (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Natural (1984); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Friday (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Big Easy (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Goofy Movie (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The First Wives Club (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Gracie's Choice (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Any Given Sunday (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ransom (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Tango & Cash (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Tombstone (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Clueless (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Sweet November (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mannequin (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Scream (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Falling Down (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Message in a Bottle (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Way We Were (1973); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Flight of the Navigator (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Where the Red Fern Grows (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Odd Couple (1968); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Cop and a Half (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Death Becomes Her (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: War Games (1983); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Prince of Tides (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Full Monty (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Footloose: Special Collector's Edition (1984); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Scorpion King (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Glory (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Out of Africa (1985); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: My Cousin Vinny (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Funny Girl (1968); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mommie Dearest (1981); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: See No Evil (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Time Machine (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Boomerang (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: GoodFellas: Special Edition (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Sling Blade (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Medicine Man (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: It Could Happen to You (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Conan the Destroyer (1984); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Urban Legend (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Usual Suspects (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Adventures in Babysitting (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: O Brother (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: On Deadly Ground (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Rounders (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Heavenly Creatures (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: National Security (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Outbreak (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Little Nikita (1988); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Witches of Eastwick (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: In the Line of Fire (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Rocketeer (1991); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: White Men Can't Jump (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Scream 2 (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Bring It On (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Specialist (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Boondock Saints (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Riding in Cars with Boys (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Virgin Suicides (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Jacob's Ladder (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Last Castle (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Uncle Buck (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Blade Runner (1982); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Three Kings (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Thing (1982); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Insider (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Where the Red Fern Grows (1974); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Forces of Nature (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Mask of Zorro (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Karate Kid (1984); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Say Anything (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A River Runs Through It (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Touched by an Angel: Season 1 (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Three Musketeers (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lethal Weapon (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Secret Garden (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Lethal Weapon 3 (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Back to the Future Part II (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mission: Impossible (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Money Pit (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Godfather (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Pure Country (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Hunt for Red October (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Pelican Brief (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: 7th Heaven: Season 1 (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Thirteen Days (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Super Troopers (2002); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Eraser (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Quest for Camelot (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gone in 60 Seconds (1974); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: As Good as It Gets (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The 13th Warrior (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: In Love and War (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Towering Inferno (1974); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Back to the Future (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Bird on a Wire (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Waterworld (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Big Bounce (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Primal Fear (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Last of the Dogmen (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Working Girl (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hero (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: High Spirits (1988); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Last of the Mohicans (1920); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 7 (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Batman Forever (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Best of Friends: Vol. 3 (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Bad Girls (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Best of Friends: Vol. 2 (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: SpaceCamp (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Chicken Run (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Kingpin (1996); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: The Mighty Ducks (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Mask: Special Edition (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Bowfinger (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Clash of the Titans (1981); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Evolution (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Reindeer Games (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Pete's Dragon (1977); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Music of the Heart (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Wonder Boys (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mystic Pizza (1988); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Red Dawn (1984); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dying Young (1991); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Waiting to Exhale (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Boys on the Side (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Conspiracy Theory (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Chances Are (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Places in the Heart (1984); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Nell (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Fan (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: I Love Trouble (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Dark Crystal (1982); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Big Trouble in Little China (1986); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mary Reilly (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Gosford Park (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Amistad (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Shining Through (1992); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Crouching Tiger (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Birdcage (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Meet Joe Black (1998); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Unforgiven (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: St. Elmo's Fire (1985); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Godsend (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Along Came Polly (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Seabiscuit (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Joe Somebody (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Casino: 10th Anniversary Edition (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Heat: Special Edition (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Breakfast Club (1985); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Showtime (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Tears of the Sun (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Analyze That (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Dragonheart (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Charlotte's Web (1973); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Untamed Heart (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Swan Princess (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Outrageous Fortune (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: For Keeps (1988); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Blue Chips (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Sandlot (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Casper (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Nine Months (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Three Musketeers (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: First Kid (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Earthsea (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Annie (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Regarding Henry (1991); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Eddie and the Cruisers (1983); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Center Stage (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Walk in the Clouds (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Born Yesterday (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Addicted to Love (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Baby Boom (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Man Without a Face (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hackers (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Sugar & Spice (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The King and I (1956); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mickey's House of Villains (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: An Officer and a Gentleman (1982); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Tarzan and Jane (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Doc Hollywood (1991); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Anna and the King (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ladyhawke (1985); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Scent of a Woman (1992); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Circle of Friends (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Some Kind of Wonderful (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: An Innocent Man (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Heart and Souls (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Honey (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Wildcats (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Single White Female (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: That Thing You Do! (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Glass House (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Roxanne (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ice Castles (1979); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Anywhere But Here (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Get Shorty (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gone with the Wind: Collector's Edition (1939); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Rescuers (1977); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Benji (1973); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Matchmaker (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: About Last Night... (1986); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Homeward Bound 2: Lost in San Francisco (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Private Benjamin (1980); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hero (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Cocoon: The Return (1988); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Dragonfly (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Pacific Heights (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Thumbelina (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Big Business (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Flashdance (1983); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Hello Again (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Swing Shift (1984); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Music Man (1962); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Shag: The Movie (1989); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Splash: 20th Anniversary Edition (1984); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Bed of Roses (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Down to Earth (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: White Fang (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Far and Away (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Now and Then (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Little Women (1949); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Follow the Stars Home (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Head Over Heels (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: What Dreams May Come (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Great Gatsby (1974); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: For Love or Money (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Project X (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Spy Game (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Trumpet of the Swan (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Funny Farm (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: National Velvet (1944); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Somewhere in Time (1980); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lean on Me (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Client (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Powder (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Karate Kid Part III / The Next Karate Kid (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Evening Star (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Chamber (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ghosts of Mississippi (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Straight Talk (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Unlawful Entry (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: French Kiss (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Balto (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Bugsy (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Good Son (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: One Fine Day (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Brubaker (1980); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: For Love of the Game (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Father of the Bride (1950); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: 8 Seconds (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Firm (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Just Cause (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ruthless People (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Up Close & Personal (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Siege (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Stakeout (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Over the Top (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Cure (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Jungle 2 Jungle (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Blast from the Past (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: When a Man Loves a Woman (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Always (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Man in the Moon (1991); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dumbo (1941); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The River (1984); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: I Spy (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Children of the Corn (1984); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Saving Private Ryan (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: View from the Top (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: See Spot Run (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Another 48 Hrs. (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Bad Company (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: 48 Hrs. (1983); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Alex and Emma (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Stella (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Welcome to Mooseport (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Russia House (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Star Wars: Clone Wars: Vol. 1 (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Gandhi (1982); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Taps (1981); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Constantine (2005); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lucas (1986); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Absence of Malice (1981); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Duets (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Secret of N-I-M-H (1982); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Fame (1980); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gross Anatomy (1989); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: In Good Company (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hide and Seek (2005); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hostage (2005); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Bad Santa (2003); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Catch That Kid (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Head of State (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Jerk (1979); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Intolerable Cruelty (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: From Hell (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The In-Laws (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Phone Booth (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Meet the Fockers (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Brooke Ellison Story (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Possession (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Are We There Yet? (2005); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Garfield: The Movie (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Matchstick Men (2003); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: The 20th Anniversary (Rerelease) (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Suspect Zero (2004); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Beyond Borders (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Surviving Christmas (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell 2 (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Annie: Special Anniversary Edition (1982); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Seems Like Old Times (1980); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Not Without My Daughter (1991); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Gidget (1959); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Guarding Tess (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dinotopia (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Princess Diaries (Fullscreen) (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: True Women (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Foul Play (1978); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mrs. Winterbourne (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Down to You (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Fools Rush In (1996); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Anne of Green Gables (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Angels in the Endzone (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Lucky Seven (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Jersey Girl (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Batteries Not Included (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Balto 2: Wolf Quest (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: I.Q. (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: She's Out of Control (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Million Dollar Baby (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Sabrina (1954); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Brother Bear (Home Viewing Version) (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mr. Mom (1983); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Stitch! The Movie (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Sense and Sensibility (1995); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Love's Enduring Promise (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Losing Isaiah (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Eye for an Eye (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Innerspace (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mask: Director's Cut (1985); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Rat Race (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Black Hawk Down (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Little Princess (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Firestarter (1984); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Shoot to Kill (1988); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Born Free (1966); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Rundown (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Murphy's Romance (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Sting (1973); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Just One of the Guys (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Guess Who (2005); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Secret of My Success (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Insomnia (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Doctor (1991); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Edge (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Danielle Steel's Daddy (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Just Married (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: You Only Live Twice (1967); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Deceived (1991); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Memphis Belle (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dream for an Insomniac (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Little Big League (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Live and Let Die (1973); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: How to Marry a Millionaire (1953); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Freaky Friday (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: First Daughter (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Whole Ten Yards (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: One True Thing (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Silver Streak (1976); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mr. 3000 (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Digimon: The Movie (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Paycheck (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Duplex (Widescreen) (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: An Ideal Husband (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Here on Earth (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Home Fries (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Blind Date (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Matrix: Reloaded (2003); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Cold Creek Manor (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Final Analysis (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Truman Show (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Big Lebowski (1998); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: The Wedding Date (2005); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Alexander: Theatrical Cut (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: White Oleander (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Haunted Mansion (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hearts in Atlantis (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: My Life (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Charmed: Season 2 (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Gilmore Girls: Season 4 (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Tarzan (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Monster-in-Law (2005); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Smallville: Season 4 (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Jumanji (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Peacemaker (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Sahara (2005); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Into the West (2005); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Daredevil (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Robots (2005); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Crash (2005); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Jersey Girl (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lilo and Stitch 2 (2005); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Taxi (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Bewitched (2005); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Kingdom of Heaven (2005); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Lot Like Love (2005); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Big Trouble (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Fever Pitch (2005); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Onegin (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: George of the Jungle (1997); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Mermaids (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Adventures of Sharkboy & Lavagirl (2005); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Score (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Osmosis Jones (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Andre (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Devil's Own (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Absolute Power (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: To Die For (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mickey Blue Eyes (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gladiator: Extended Edition (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Air America (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Electric Horseman (1979); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Malice (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Milk Money (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Prince and Me (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Jack (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: All the Right Moves (1983); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Speechless (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Danielle Steel's Fine Things (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Carolina (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Danielle Steel's Kaleidoscope (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Kill Me Later (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: North & South: The Complete Collection (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The River Wild (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Object of My Affection (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Cinderella: Special Edition (1950); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Stephen King's Cat's Eye (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: With Honors (1994); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: La Bamba (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Enemy Mine (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Juror (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Much Ado About Nothing (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mulan 2 (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Stepford Wives (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Christine: Special Edition (1983); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Old School (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: That Old Feeling (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Return to Paradise (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Program (1993); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Shanghai Knights (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Courage Under Fire (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Murder at 1600 (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Aliens: Collector's Edition (1986); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Batman Begins (2005); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: House (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Birth (2004); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Reign of Fire (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Hellboy (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Bachelor (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Kicking & Screaming (2005); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Leap of Faith (1992); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Cocoon (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0 | netflix |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Honda 28400-Z0L-V20ZA Lawn Mower Recoil Starter Assembly; Brand: Honda; Review: Works great; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Classic Accessories Hickory Heavy Duty Ceramic Grill Cover - Durable and Water Resistant Patio Cover, X-Large (55-218-052401-EC); Brand: Classic Accessories; Review: Would buy again; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Nomex High-Temp Grill Replacement Gasket Sm Mini Med Large XL Big Green Egg; Brand: LavaLock; Review: Good stuff. Found extra hints on YouTube to apply.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Dr. Killigan's Premium Pantry Moth Traps with Pheromone Attractant | Safe, Non-Toxic with No Insecticides | Organic (6, Blue); Brand: Dr. Killigan's; Review: It took a second round of these to get rid of the moths. They work well. You can see the results. It took a few weeks. The population kept falling. I do Wish I had Figured out the original source.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Blackstone Signature Griddle Accessories - Weather Resistant Outdoor Pizza Oven Cover - Heavy Duty 600D Polyester; Brand: Blackstone; Review: Fits the oven well. Hopefully it will last for some time.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Patio_Lawn_and_Garden |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Phone 7 Adapter & Splitter, Audio + Charge Headphone Aux Cable Adapter for Phone X, Phone 8, Phone 9; Brand: IMBCYL; Review: Moved five sims with no problem. Might leave some rough edges that I cleaned using a nail file. The included adapter also came handy when I had to temporally move back to an older phone; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Black Glasses Eyeglasses Safety Zippered Hard Case Holder; Brand: uxcell; Review: Sturdy and robust. Takes a daily beating and still looks good and keeps the glasses safe; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Motorola Moto G - Global GSM - Unlocked - 16GB (Black); Brand: Motorola; Review: The best value for money unlocked android phone. Not the more powerful, not the best, but performs fast and reliable. The few Motorola provided apps are actually useful, Especially the migration tool that works with all make, not just Motorola.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: CellTo Google Nexus 5 Case [Navy Blue/ Mint] Case Premium Wallet Case [Slim Ultra Fit] Diary Cover; Brand: Cellto; Review: Pretty and does not hinder the wireless changing. Too bad it does not have the sensor for locking / unlocking the device.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: LG G3 D855 Factory Unlocked Cellphone, International Version, 16GB, Black; Brand: LG; Review: Might be looked at as a previous generation phone, with the G4 out, but this is a great phone, and with the added bonus that this is now an "old" phone, it comes with a reasonable price. While a clean Google experience fan, the LG launcher and included utilities do not seem to hinder performance or usability as happens with some other OEM phone (Samsung are the worst in my experience). The migration tool is not very useful. None of the ones I saw is. I backed up to Google, and reinstalled the applications, which is fairly straight forward. == Update == I dropped from 5 to 3. The device I got had a faulty display. As I was oversees, and did not have the time and facilities to return it, I want to local technician. Turns out this device had a non-original screen (on a device sold as new), which was faulty (the display layers were separated). Once fixed (at an extra cost), it's a great phone, but this should not have happened.; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | amazon_Cell_Phones_and_Accessories |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: M-Audio Studiophile AV30 Professional Reference Speakers; Brand: M-Audio; Review: People are way too hard on these. They sound great as desktop speakers that's for sure. Furthermore I added the Maudio sub (which is in a whole different price range I'll admit, but the one thing I love is gnarly thumping bass). They really sound pretty okay. The sub fills what they are missing and my small room sounds just fine with them. As for monitor use. You can tell where they are lacking pretty quick after using them and adjust around it. Even though they are no Adams A7x's, they are still far better than average computer speakers are for monitor use. I only have the option of double checking mixes on friends gnarlier sound setups, but to be honest once I got used to them they work beautifully and really....... for the cheap price I got them ($79) they I am incredibly stoked on them. I have them running through an Maudio Fast track ultra interface with the 1/4" cable so I do have a good clean sound source FYI. I cant speak for people with internal cards using RCA and such. Mine do get pretty warm in the back but nothing unreasonable. I keep them on all day without any problems and play them near max for at least a couple hours a day.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: RCA DCM425 Digital Cable Modem; Brand: RCA; Review: I given it 4 stars because there are many faster internet options out there nowadays and this won't support them. But... I'm not sure why so many people are having trouble with their speeds unless they have a just straight defective modem. I've had 10 Mbit for the past year and consistently averaged about 9.7. I've just upgraded to 30 Mbit and it's doing about 13.5 now. So for me it was solid at 10, would be... acceptable at 15 tier... and above would (and is going to be shortly when I get a chance to pick a new one up) not sufficient. Amazon lists it as docsis 1, but my packaging and speeds would seem to confirm that it is actually docsis 2.0 If you can't afford above a 10Mbit tier cable internet and you get a proper working product, I don't see why this wouldn't be sufficient for your needs. Remember that most electronics these days have pretty high rates of being defective. It's up to you to install it, test it, and determine as soon as possible if it's working properly... and if it's not, get it back to the store under their return policy before you have to hassle with a warranty. If you can't make it in that time, then warranty it. This should be your process for every electronic device with the way things are these days. I work IT for a very large company and I can tell you that roughly 15% of every electronic devices I order (and I order thousands of dollars worth a day) are defective. It's just the way it is. Technology is nuts, and quality control isn't as easy as it used to be.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Yamaha RX-V373 5.1-Channel AV Receiver - (Discontinued by Manufacturer); Brand: Yamaha Audio; Review: I like this receiver. It has all the features I want and sounds good. A couple gripes. A few times the sound has randomly started dropping out, the hdmi cables are from Monoprice and I've tried swapping with new ones. Usually if I turn everything off and on a few times it'll pick up and start working fine again. It hasn't happened enough to be a big deal, only a couple times, but it's worrisome. I don't like that only 2 speakers let you use banana plugs. Why bother to put them in for only 2? The binding posts on the other inputs are really small, so even if you wanted to use non-banana binding post style plugs they don't fit into the posts and thicker speaker wire is hard to get in them. Everything else works as advertised and I'm very happy with.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Monster 123870 iCable for Car (3 feet) (Discontinued by Manufacturer); Brand: Monster; Review: I love / hate this cable. I hate it because it's wayyy overpriced for something I can get for a buck on mono price. I love it because it's the only audio cable I could find that fits through the hole in my Spigen neo hybrid case I have on my Galaxy S4. So Overall it was worth it so I don't have to take my case off every time I want to plug a cable into it, but ughhh the price is ridiculous.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Samsung Electronics 840 Pro Series 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive, 256GB; Brand: Samsung; Review: Great SSD. I was getting bluescreens for a couple days which scared me.... (This on a computer I've used for 2 years with none)... but they kind of magically stopped. Faster than my old OCD and larger. I've been happy with it for the past couple months now.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: SanDisk Extreme PRO 32GB UHS-I/U3 Micro SDHC With 4K Ultra HD Ready-SDSDQXP-032G-G46A (Label May Change); Brand: SanDisk; Review: I used several of these in phones. They were fast enough for photos and such and games that required a fast card. I had no issue with any of them. I think this was a good quality card myself.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: beyerdynamic DT 990 PRO Over-Ear Studio Headphones in black. Open construction, wired; Brand: beyerdynamic; Review: I got two units that had extremely high / harsh treble. I compared them to my friends which were a couple years old and his did not sound this way. I returned the second unit and gave up on these. I don't know what was wrong with them but they almost hurt to listen to. I am moderately experienced with studio headphones and monitor speakers of various brands and quality so I can confidently say that they were not supposed to sound the way they did. I will say this, they were extremely comfortable. Good luck shoppers. Hope your experience is better than mine was.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Microsoft Arc Wireless Keyboard for PC and Xbox 360 - Black; Brand: Microsoft; Review: Been using the arc keyboard and mouse for my media pc in the living room for a couple years now. Still on the same batteries somehow (dont ask me how I use the media pc every night to watch net flixes). the range isn't the longest on them, about 15 is where I would stop.... I use them at exactly 15 feet and I have line of site (the nubs are plugged in the front of the computer) and sometimes I have to aim the mouse /keyboard towards it a little, but that's fine with me, I love the low profile of these devices and the look on my living room end table; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Scythe Slip Stream Slim 120mm Case Fan (SY1212SL12L); Brand: Scythe; Review: it was an okay fan, it was the only one I could fit inside a small space within my tiny media pc but it really pushes barely any air. still some air was better than none so it worked for my purpose just to get a little air into a stale area in my case that no other fan would have fit in.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: HP Touchstone Charging Dock for TouchPad; Brand: Hewlett Packard; Review: this is okay but I wish it was more minimal. It could be less obtrusive and still provide plenty of support; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: ZJchao 5V DC 2000mA Regulated Power Supply 1.35mm X 3.5mm Tip, Extra Power; Brand: ZJchao; Review: I've been using this for over a year and it hasn't given me any problems to speak of thus far; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Casecrown Poly Messenger Bag for iPad Air 2 iPad Air iPad 4th Generation, Brown (CC-MI-4375B); Brand: CaseCrown; Review: I bought this for my non ipad tablet and it fit and worked great. I love the look of it and the feel. My tablet is outdated so I might try to find another better use for it.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Motorola Vehicle Power Adapter micro-USB Rapid Rate Charger; Brand: hotfuleco; Review: This was my originall charger from like 6 years ago... since then I've had several both brand names and brand x chargers... I don't know what it is... but this charger charges faster than any other charger (even ones rated with the same high output). I bought it again because it will charge almost as fast as the wall charger whereas even my samsung one seemed to only keep the batter yfrom going down.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: USB 3.0 Micro Cable, ITANDA 3.3ft USB 3.0 A to Micro B Cable Charger Compatible with Samsung Galaxy; Brand: ITD ITANDA; Review: It works but it's so short that I have to put a shoe box behind my computer to put the external on so that it reaches. I can't even get it to reach setting it on top of the computer case itself. I mean I guess I should have read the notes but if they had made it even an inch longer it would have been a much more useful product.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Belkin Cat6 Patch Cable, 10' Blue (A3L980-10-BLU); Brand: Belkin; Review: This is a good cat 6. My other cat 6's didn't seem to want to connect at the fastest speed but this did the trick; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Belkin A3L980-40-BLK-S CAT6 Snagless Patch Cable RJ45M/RJ45M; 40 Black; Brand: Belkin; Review: This is a good cat 6. My other cat 6's didn't seem to want to connect at the fastest speed but this did the trick; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: CABLE,CAT6,UTP,RJ45M/M,15',YLW,PATCH,SNAGLESS; Brand: Belkin; Review: This is a good cat 6. My other cat 6's didn't seem to want to connect at the fastest speed but this did the trick; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Toysdone Wireless Headphones Stereo Earbuds Wireless Sport Earphones for Running with Mic (6 Hours Play Time, IPX4; Brand: Toysdone; Review: I ordered these last night and eagerly awaited them for the few hours it took to deliver. I charged them part way while I got ready to run and took them on a 1 hour run and they did not fall out at all. They are pretty comfortable, I used the middle ear-peace with the large rubber ear spear thing. I have huge ears so I really have no idea who has ear canals big enough for the big earpeaces. The big spear thing though fit very snugly in my ear triangle. They seem to sit very snug in my ear and I only had to readjust one of them once during my hour run. The buttons are all fairly easy to use/feel for me. Some didn't like how they are flush but I was able to tell fairly easily what I'm hitting. The little plug for the charging port is hard as heck to get out. You pretty much have to use a toothpick or paper clip to get it open. But that's not a big deal. Sound. I listened to some deep house and some uplifting trance on my run. Well I compared them to my samsung galasy s6 earphones before I left though. The SSG S6 default earphones are slightly louder and a tad more bass if you ask me. That said, the wireless soundpeats have very crisp mids and highs, and the volume difference is maybe only 1 tick of a phone volume. I rarely listen to the galaxy earphones on the max setting so the soundpeats going 1 tick quieter is no biggie to me, that's right where I listen. I'm not a fan of super hyped bass on earphones so I'm okay with the clear mids and highs. I left my phone on the table while I cleaned up some when I got home. Walks maybe 15 feet in every direction while cleaning and had no drop outs. Cant complain about connection quality. Overall I'm very satisfied. As long as they hold up I will keep a 5 star rating. If they break I will attempt to replace them under warranty and reevaluate my rating.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Corsair CC-9011014-WWCORSAIR CARBIDE 300R Mid-Tower Case, Window Side Panel; Brand: Corsair; Review: Sharp looking case. EAsy to build in. Feels quality. Good price. Not much else you can say.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: HESPLUS Shockproof Carrying Case for Western Digital WD My Passport Ultra WD Elements 2TB 1TB 500GB Seagate Backup Plus Slim; Brand: HESPLUS; Review: I like the case. it seems well enough made. I cut out the center flat and I'm using it to hold my vape mod (very small minivolt) plus a bottle of ejuice. It's perfect for that but wouldn't hold any more. Were I using it for it's original purpose it would work well for that too assuming everything fits. I can't complain.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Zalman Zm-Mic1 High Sensitivity Headphone Microphone; Brand: Zalman; Review: Don't let the other reviews fool you. The only way this mic is going to work is if you pick it up and hold it to your mouth every time you want to use it. Leaving it clipped on your headphones cable is not close enough unless you turn the mic boost in windows all the way up which makes you sound like you're next to a waterfall. It may work if you want to actively hold it, but having a clip at the base, it implies it can work passively from a clipped position, which it does not. Only get this if you need a very cheap mic which you are okay with picking up to talk into.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Rocketfish Universal Wireless Rear Speaker Kit RF-WHTIB-A; Brand: Rocketfish; Review: This is great. Now... I came from the "premium" kit made by amphony. It attracted me at the time because it had separate receivers for the speakers and claimed a better output rating than the rocketfish. Also I had wireless G and 2.4ghz phones, and the amphony operates on the 5ghz band so I figured there would be less interference. Well the amphony died twice while under warranty and again after warranty (they never responded to my email about sending it for repair for cost either). It had interference constantly despite having a clean 5ghz band. It died and I'm glad it did because it was a cheap piece of junk (and felt/looked the part). I wanted to upgrade to wireless N anyway so the rocketfish is now a better option. So I did that.... upgraded to n and have my fast internet, hooked up the rocketfish. It works like a charm. It sounds better, it hasn't had ANY interference... Mind you I've scanned and have quite a bit of traffic in the same band too from neighbors (was nervous about that but the amphony is kicking booty). It hasn't had any issues. It FEELS like a better product, it's heavier, has thicker plastic... doesn't get insanely hot like the amphony stuff did. Overall I just think it's a better product. I hope it lasts longer than a few years, but at the cheaper price at least if I have to replace it after a couple, it won't hurt as bad as the amphony did.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sennheiser HD 558 Headphones; Brand: Sennheiser; Review: I love these headphones, and the sound they have. I have a pile of expensive headphones (nothing over $300 though), many do have some positives over these, but overall for the price and the sound, these are my favorites in the pile.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sabrent Aluminum USB External Stereo Sound Adapter for Windows and Mac. Plug and play No drivers Needed. [Silver] (AU-EMAC); Brand: Sabrent; Review: It's okay, worked well for a mic input, preamp still sounds a little meh though.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: LiiR Bluetooth 4.0 USB Dongle Adapter Compatible with Windows 10, 8.1 / 8, 7, Vista, XP; Brand: LiiR; Review: worked like a charm, not much more to say about it. Simple, cheap, works.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Antlion Audio ModMic Attachable Boom Microphone - Noise Cancelling with Mute Switch; Brand: Antlion Audio; Review: Ultimately, it's a good product that fills a need. I wish my mic had a removable cable, as I would have bought the v-moda boompro that plugs into the headphones instead, but sadly my headphones have a hardwired cable. The modmic is just a bit muffled, I've tried it in 4 sound cards (one of which is professional / musician grade). It gets the job done but it's only medium quality. For the price, I wish it was better quality. It doesn't pick up background noise too bad though so that's a plus. You almost definitely won't be able to use it in your motherboards input, as the built in motherboard cards just sound awful in general unless you're lucky. Buy the modmic usb or a $5 usb soundcard at the very least, or if you have a pro audio card buy a stereo mini to xlr with a PFA8v (the company naiant makes one). You won't be able to use it in a pro audio interface otherwise as they provide 48v phantom power and computer mics usually need to get below 10v to not sustain damage.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: SubPac M2X Wearable Physical Audio System; Brand: SUBPAC; Review: I've been mulling it over. I like the product, it's cool, but I have some issues with it. I find it very uncomfortable, but it may just be because I'm 6'4 and cant seem to adjust it so that it feels right. I really don't like the little clip on box either, I wish it was integrated into the vest more. If I clip it on my right side (since my wires are coming from the right and I'm left handed it just feels better on the right) it's constantly falling off because the clip is upsidedown. Maybe I can take the clip off and flip it though. Anyway, it's a cool addition for vr but I kind of wish I got the seatback model because using this one in a seat is just really uncomfortable. It's definitely more accurate than the bass transducer i have on the bottom of my chair. they do compliment eachother well with my transducer kicking me in the button on explosions, and the subpac picking up the higher range bass notes with some clarity that the transducer just kinda farts out. Overall I do like it and it throws out some nice bass for movies and games, but I feel like the comfort level isn't there for me, and the price is a bit too high for what it gives you. I don't regret buying it, but if I could go back in time I might have just put an extra bass transducer on the back and bottom of my chair instead of just the one that I have, and skipped this, and just not had bassy goodness for VR games.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: ASUS (USB-N13) Wireless-N USB Adapter IEEE 802.11b/g/n USB 2.0 Up to 300Mbps Wireless Data Rates; Brand: Asus; Review: Really good range, and solid connection. I think Asus makes the best usb wireless cards, and I've bought dozens of different brands for my work. Asus ones always get the best range and never seem to drop out.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: ASUS RT AC87U Wireless AC2400 Dual B& Gigabit Router, AiProtection with Trend Micro; Brand: Asus; Review: I have mixed feelings about this router. As an IT guy I had an opportunity to test a half dozen routers in my house, which I did because I get poor wireless performance. This Asus unit has the best signal to all my devices that I could find. Hands down. It's the only thing that my firestick gets a solid signal and full speed on. This is why I am sticking with this router. But... I am plagued by UNPN and port forwarding issues. I have tried everything. Updated / downgraded / custom firmwares. I am very networking/tech savvy, this is my job. I know all the tricks. It's not a configuration issue. This router just does not seem to respond to unpn requests correctly. I made a small app to test it, not working right. I have to use it in DMZ to play certain games which drives me nuts, but I stick with it due to having perfect wireless performance in my house. So there's that. and... My other issue here is with support. I have to play along, reset the router, do all the things that I know aren't going to help because I'm an IT guy and I did all that already. Fair enough. Then I get to the point where they just tell me they cannot help me with configuration issues. I try to politely explain that it's not a configuration issue, the router is not doing what it's supposed to do. They basically tell me to contact microsoft or the game developer or whatever else. It's the router. I've tested it myself the same way I test on any network. It is not doing what it's supposed to plain and simple. So DMZ works well enough for me. I'll put up with it for the reliable and strong wireless connections I'm getting to my devices on other floors of my house. ...but I wouldn't say that I'm happy with it. It could just be the unit or a flaw in the router itself. I wouldn't know, they wouldn't entertain the idea of sending me a replacement.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Cable Matters 3-Pack Micro USB 2.0 Cable in Black 3 Feet; Brand: Cable Matters; Review: I bought 3 and 2 were kind of squirrely and when you wiggle them a little they disconnected (using to hook up to my car so the vibrations made it not work well) the 3rd one worked great with android auto and didn't wiggle. 1 out of 3 is not a great turnout though. Not sure why 2 of them were so bad. Luckily I planned for it by ordering 3... i really only needed 1 in the first place so I got what I needed.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Logitech G933 Artemis Spectrum – Wireless RGB 7.1 Dolby and DTS Headphone Surround Sound Gaming Headset – PC,; Brand: Logitech; Review: I came from a g930 which I used for 6 years having only replaced the ear pads a few times. It finally gave out. I have to say the g933 has slightly better sound and can go much louder than my g930 would. I can't seem to get the distance I could on my g930 (I have a three story house and can only go down one story now). The frame of the unit feels nicer/more solid but the ear padding is much cheaper feeling. The mic sounds much worse and seems to pick up sound from the ear cup no matter what I do. I have the mic sensitivity very low (about 40%) and have to keep the game volume down a lot when I play. I do like the usb stick transmitter along with separate usb charging cable. Sure it takes up two slots but it's much less obtrusive than the base station was. G930's only real flaw for me was that the usb plug had a weak connection to the board internally. It broke off at one point and I had to re-solder it to the board. after that the g930 was a flawless awesome headset for me. The g933 seems more solid in this area, however, since I did not open it up I could not say for sure.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: VicTsing Mechanical Keyboard, Wired Gaming keyboard with Blue Switches, 87 Keys Anti-Ghosting, 12 Multimedia; Brand: VicTsing; Review: I've been using this keyboard for several years at work now and it's just awesome. I have two $150 keyboards at home and this is definitely my favorite for typing. I wouldn't use blue keys for gaming but this thing is a pleasure at work. One of my favorite things is the protruding keys with flat base, after a year or so of grime you can take the keys off and wash them in a bin of soapy water with a sponge and wipe off the base beneath the keys and the whole thing is good as new. Just a warning, if you type fast you will annoy your coworkers with the sound! haha.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Electronics |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Crayola 8 Count Gel FX Washable Markers; Brand: Crayola; Review: Great addition to the See thru wonder board or globe style on the market. My daughter loved the variety of colors for drawing.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Toy State Caterpillar Construction Mini Machine 5-Pack; Brand: Toystate; Review: Bought these for grand son. They are the perfect size for traveling to play with in and out of car. Thinking cereal box size sandbox would make great addition.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Toy State CAT Tough Tracks, 3-Pack; Brand: Toystate; Review: Wonderful size for the under bed storage size container of sand. Only have deck area for play? Then these make a great addition for any age.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Disney Sofia The First Royal Tea Party Giftset; Brand: Mattel; Review: Wonderful size, the grand daughter loved them. She can take them with her on trips or while visiting family. A+++; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Disney Sofia The First Royal Family Giftset; Brand: Mattel; Review: Wonderful addition to and princess room dollhouse. The grand daughter loved the family.Perfect for small hands to play for hours.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Toys_and_Games |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, #1); Author: Deborah Harkness; Genres: history, young-adult, mystery, thriller, crime, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, romance, fiction; Review: Amazing! I can't wait for the sequel.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Love and Murder on the Hill; Author: Catherine Angelone; Genres: thriller, crime, mystery; Review: I enjoyed enough to hope there will be a sequel! I enjoyed the quirky characters.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: After the Rice; Author: Wendy French; Genres: romance, fiction; Review: A very light read. I am interested to find out more about the characters and how they turned out.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: New Moon (Twilight, #2); Author: Stephenie Meyer; Genres: young-adult, romance, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: I couldn't wait for her whining to be over......geesh!; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Twilight (Twilight, #1); Author: Stephenie Meyer; Genres: young-adult, paranormal, fantasy, romance, fiction; Review: If I had to choose, this would be my favourite of all the books. Total brain candy.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Pride and Prejudice; Author: Jane Austen; Genres: history, young-adult, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: My most favourite book of all time! Closely followed by Outlander by Diana Gabaldon and The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Virunga: the Passion of Dian Fossey; Author: Farley Mowat; Genres: history, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, mystery; Review: Did a paper on it. It changed the way I thought about a lot of things. It made me sad but also gave me hope that one person can make a difference.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Heat Rises (Nikki Heat, #3); Author: Richard Castle; Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, paranormal, fantasy, romance, fiction; Review: Next book out in September. Can't wait!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Sherlockian; Author: Graham Moore; Genres: history, mystery, thriller, crime, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, romance, fiction; Review: I loved it. Enough said.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Lantern; Author: Deborah Lawrenson; Genres: history, thriller, crime, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery; Review: It was a good read however I would recommend Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" over it any day.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: To Have and to Kill (Wedding Cake Mystery, #1); Author: Mary Jane Clark; Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, romance, fiction; Review: I stumbled on this book by accident. It was a quick, easy read and I enjoyed it enough that I am going to continue to read the next book in the series. It's definitely a light read, good to take to the beach or cottage.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1); Author: E.L. James; Genres: young-adult, romance, fiction; Review: To be fair, I do not read a lot of romance so I was not expecting to be blown away by the book from the start. So far, it's very much like every other book in the genre. I was reading it to see what the hype was about. Midway through, I am still not all that interested in the characters or why they are they way that they are. I may change my mind at the end of the trilogy, that remains to be seen. So far, I am not at all in shock or awe...; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2); Author: E.L. James; Genres: young-adult, romance, fiction; Review: So far, I'm finding the second book more interesting as there is actually a plot line developing. The characters are still quite shallow but we are given more context about their lives. I'll reserve judgement until the end...; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Uninvited Guests; Author: Sadie Jones; Genres: history, fiction, thriller, crime, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: I read it over a few days. It had a few interesting twists and I did feel satisfied at the end but somehow still felt disappointed.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter; Author: Josh Gates; Genres: history, thriller, comics, crime, paranormal, graphic, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: One of my favourite shows. Thank you from the Indiana Jones in all of us!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Duty To The Dead (Bess Crawford, #1); Author: Charles Todd; Genres: history, mystery, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: I was hooked immediately. I pretty much read it in one day!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Fate of Mercy Alban; Author: Wendy Webb; Genres: history, mystery, thriller, romance, crime, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: This was the first book in a long that kept me up, reading late into the night. It's a great gothic mystery and I really enjoyed it. I'm hoping the author will write a sequel. .; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Monogram Murders; Author: Sophie Hannah; Genres: history, mystery, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: I stayed up late into the evening to finish this book. Its been the first book in several years to make me want to lose sleep. My school librarian introduced me to Agatha Christie's books when I was 10 years old and I have been a huge fan ever since so when I heard Poirot was back, I was very excited! The story was interesting and I would definitely read another in the series but I did find that I felt as though small details were missed. Such as Mr vs Monsieur and referring to a young lady by her first name, not Miss or madmoiselle. The story takes place in 1929 and I felt the formality was missing. Monsieur Poirot, I'm so happy you have returned!; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Who Do, Voodoo? (A Mind for Murder, #1); Author: Rochelle Staab; Genres: romance, thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: I picked up the book from the enormous pile of books waiting to be read and I enjoyed it. I liked the characters and the author's writing style. I was looking for an easy novel to relax with and this totally fit the bill. Now to find out if there is a second in the series....; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Writing Screenplays That Sell, New Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Complete Guide to Turning Story Concepts into Movie and Television Deals; Author: Michael Hauge; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: This book is very helpful for aspiring writers. Lots of details and great examples. I would highly recommend it.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | goodreads |
Given the interaction history of a user with news articles as follows:
Title: XFL draft pool full of NFL experience and names you know; Abstract: The XFL is holding its inaugural draft next week, and the 1,000-player pool is full of NFL experience and college players fans will remember.; Category: sports
Title: Contractor claims video shows structural flaws prior to Hard Rock Hotel collapse; Abstract: A contractor posted a video arguing it showed structural problems inside the Hard Rock Hotel construction site two days before its deadly collapse.; Category: news
Title: Eagles player upset team missed out on Jalen Ramsey; Abstract: One anonymous Eagles player thought his team should have made a move for new Rams cornerback Jalen Ramsey.; Category: sports
Title: Contractor claims video shows structural flaws prior to Hard Rock Hotel collapse; Abstract: A contractor posted a video arguing it showed structural problems inside the Hard Rock Hotel construction site two days before its deadly collapse.; Category: news
Title: This waterfront city is the top place in America to retire; Abstract: Plus, 4 affordable alternatives on the beach; Category: finance
Title: Potential trade targets for all 32 NFL teams at the 2019 deadline, from A.J. Green to Trent Williams; Abstract: Whether it's trading for a player or trading away a player, the NFL trade deadline in 2019 offers unique opportunities to make moves. Here are the most logical trades for all 32 teams.; Category: sports
Title: Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump's border wall; Abstract: Using popular power tools, cutters are defeating the steel bollards, opening gaps large enough for people and drugs to pass through, agents and officials say.; Category: news
Title: Column: Canelo Alvarez is the king of boxing's wait class; Abstract: Dwayne Johnson, the actor and former professional wrestler who performs under the moniker The Rock, appeared on the arena's oversized video screens with what looked like a title belt over his shoulder. Instead of the name of a combat sports sanctioning body or a wrestling organization, the belt was adorned with the letters "BMF." As a smiling Johnson strode through a partition in the crowd, ...; Category: sports
Title: Greatest eBay Listing Of 2019? Or In All Of Human History? You Decide!; Abstract: This clever eBay ad made our day!; Category: autos
Title: No. 1 milk company declares bankruptcy amid drop in demand; Abstract: Dean Foods blamed a decadeslong drop in milk consumption that has seen people turn to alternatives like soda, juice and almond milk.; Category: finance | mind |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel Jersey; City: St Helier Jersey Channel Islands; Review: We had read mixed reviews about this hotel so this our opinion. The double room sea facing was more than big enough, good shower over bath, fridge, desk etc, what let it down was the lack of storage space. We only ate breakfast in the hotel which was very good, swimming pool small but ok and small gym,we found the staff to be friendly and helpful, not a bad hotel of its type. good position for St Helier; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Atlantic Inn; City: St Mary s Isles of Scilly England; Review: Having read other reviews of this hotel we were looking forward to our recent visit,yes the pub next door is a bit lively and depending on your room you might here some noise at chucking out time best advice is to have dinner and go next door and enjoy the pub.Food at the hotel was excellent and plentiful for our five nights stay, a varied menu every night and four courses served by delightful staff. Our room (22) was over the pub entrance and we were not disturbed unduly. The room was a good size, clean and tidy with all mod con's. Went as part of SAGA trip which included guided walks around the islands, as well as the main guide a member of the hotel staff helped with the tour of the gardens on Tresco and both were very knowledgeable and made the whole trip so much more enjoyable.Drinks on the sun terrace before dinner priceless .; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Clayton Hotel Galway; City: Galway County Galway Western Ireland; Review: Having read the recent reviews I feel we stayed at a different hotel, our stay was part of a tour of Ireland and there is the problem, this might be a good business stopover but it's no place for a tour group. The group consisted of thirty very well traveled people who had just come from a excellent hotel in Kinsale, the rooms are ok if you like that sort of thing but we never found a towel rail. That was a minor thing but our big problem was the restaurant , the service on the first night was a joke the staff were young and showed no experience, the food was mediocre to say the least and a warm plate would have been nice. There didn't seem to be any adults in charge, people were missed out when food was served and we had to bring this to the attention of the waiting staff. not a good experience, on a positive note the bar staff were great. Although this is not the hotels fault to say the the location is on the Dublin side of Galway is an under statement.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Trident Hotel Kinsale; City: Kinsale County Cork; Review: We stayed at the trident as part of a tour for three nights. The room was very spacious with a great view of the harbour, it was clean and tidy and the bathroom had a separate shower which was very good. The food was of a very good standard the tour group ate from a fixed menu with a varied choice on each night. The staff were extremely pleasant and the breakfast outstanding. It is only a short walk to the town centre, a very good base. My only small gripe would be there was no separate bar for residents to have a quiet drink before dinner, on the Monday night at seven the bar was full of teens having a very loud and fun time us oldies wanted something a bit quieter. But all in all a good experience.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Le Chene Hotel; City: Torteval Guernsey Channel Islands; Review: We stayed at this hotel a few weeks ago for three nights. The hotel was clean and comfortable,the bedroom was quite small but with plenty of storage space, but the decoration was very dated and needs an update. Great breakfast served by very friendly staff. We only had one evening meal at the hotel and this was very good. Be warned that it is near the airport and some people might find the noise a problem, we didn't. A good location for exploring the island.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Queens Head Hotel; City: Berwick upon Tweed Northumberland England; Review: This is a restaurant with six rooms but it works very well,our room was very well finished and a fabulous shower.The staff were very friendly and helpful,the position in the town is very quiet and the parking was easy.We stayed for three nights and ate each night in the restaurant the food was very good ,fresh local ingredients where possible,non fish eaters might struggle to find something different each night ,we asked if we could order two starters each 'no problem' so it worked for us,a great base to explore that part of the world; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Lincombe Hall Hotel; City: Torquay English Riviera Devon England; Review: This is a good hotel in a leafy suburb but a short walk from the town centre,we found the standard of food very good with a choice of starters and mains to suite most tastes.buffet style breakfast but yet again a good choice,can only comment on our room which was the bridal suite, great walk in shower, loads of storage space and a four poster bed.outdoor pool heated to 30 degrees and hot tub 40 degrees, its got three stars but somehow feels better than that,staff friendly and helpful.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Beachcombers Hotel; City: Grouville Jersey Channel Islands; Review: This is a good hotel, not the best but it is three star. The location is great to explore the island and only short bus ride to St Hellier. I note the comments about the rooms needing modernization this was relevant to the room we had,but it was clean and tidy, the rest of the hotel was good, can't comment on pool because it wasn't open. Breakfast was excellent with a good choice, we ate in the restaurant on three occasions for evening dinner and had three good meals with a good choice of food. A special mention for the bar and restaurant staff, in any hotel they are the front line and make or break the experience, in our case they made it a very pleasant stay; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ty Boia B B; City: St Davids St Davids Peninsula Pembrokeshire Wales; Review: great base for that part of Pembrokshire, lovely well presented room,breakfast was as good as it gets, thoroughly reccomend, easy walk into St Davids for evening meal, nice touch of the home made cake to go with afternoon tea; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Premier Inn Wirral Greasby Hotel; City: Greasby Wirral Merseyside England; Review: for the price this is great, clean tidy, plenty of free parking, good pub next door, exellent breakfast and close to isle of man ferry, for the money you can't go wrong, found the staff very friendly and helpful; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Trearddur Bay Hotel; City: Trearddur Bay Anglesey North Wales Wales; Review: good hotel, freiendly staff, good food in pub, nice location, you need to book room with sea view as back is not great, hotels own web site does not cover all aspects of hotel, there is a nice pool but its hard to find a mention on web site, also no mention that there are no lifts; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: Jameson Inn Wilmington; City: Wilmington North Carolina; Review: We stayed at The Jameson Inn last weekend. I made reservations in advance but all we could get was a smoking room since we had a pet. The room was decent but small compared to other motels I have stayed at on the same level. A lot of channels including HBO, a working desk area, complimentary breakfast (muffins, etc.) and free internet access is available. Overall, I was pleased. Just watch the taxes especially if you have a pet, they even charge taxes on the pet charge. Our motel bill was 162.20 but once they added taxes on for everything it was 183.30, so 21.10 in taxes which is close to 15%.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Quality Inn Near Blue Spring; City: Orange City Florida; Review: This hotel is okay. It is clean and offers a continental breakfast. Beds aren't bad either. You also get about 80 channels. The reason I am giving a three opposed to a five is because of the safe fee. They put a safe in your room and charge you 1.50 per night regardless whether you use it or not. Throw the safe out the door and it would be fine.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Dunhill Hotel; City: Charlotte North Carolina; Review: We popped in here the night before New Year's Eve around 11pm and asked for a room with a view of the city. When we got to our room there was no view of the city. We went back down to get our room changed and the front desk guy moved us to the Penthouse Suite. What a nice way to end the year, with two large balconies overlooking both sides of the city, a huge jacuzzi tub with rainfall shower in the bathroom and a very comfortable bed with plush linens. We went back down and graciously thanked him then enjoyed the rest of our evening and late check-out the next morning. We highly recommend this hotel to anyone wanting a little slice of heaven in Charlotte.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Kimpton Hotel Eventi; City: New York City New York; Review: I didn't realize up until now that Kimpton hotels are eco and pet friendly. This hotel is very nice. We stayed for my boyfriend's birthday. We had one other guest traveling with us so we got the executive one bedroom suite. It wasn't cheap, around 600 for the night. But at least it included parking. Everyone at the hotel was super friendly and helpful. They offered free wine in the evening for a hour which was nice. They also had dog food and water for the guest's pets in the lobby (I wish I would have brought my dog now). The hotel itself is very trendy, definately check out the restaurant area even if you don't eat there. I had the breakfast buffet up there, it was around 30 bucks and good. The room itself had a nice comfy bed and big shower. Even though the room and service was great for the price I don't know if I will come to this specific location or not as it is not as close to everything as some of the other kimpton hotels. I'd probably try Ink next time and bring my pet.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Best Western Lumberton; City: Lumberton North Carolina; Review: We stayed here a couple weeks back. Pros: -They are a dog friendly hotel -Offer good military rates -Close to everything in Lumberton and about 40 minutes from Fayetteville and a hour and half from Myrtle Beach. -Rooms appear to have been recently updated, with flat screen tv, coffee makers, fridge and comfy bed - We enjoyed the pool which was very nice and well kept. - Staff cares and exceeds expectations, example was told there was not water except out of water fountain for breakfast. I complained on the survey the next day they had a fresh pitcher of ice water out. They also apologized for locking me out of the room a hour before check out. Explained bill to us. Cons: - Room is entered from outside which makes more like a motel instead of hotel. - I don't expect fine linens at this caliber of hotel but the bathroom linens could stand to be replaced. -The breakfast was lacking especially of anything healthy except for fruit. Breakfast consisted of waffles, muffins, bagels and boiled eggs. -Housekeeping leaves you one two towels, a washcloth and handtowel for each day, this doesn't work for two people.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Days Inn by Wyndham Bethel Danbury; City: Bethel Connecticut; Review: We stayed here for three nights last week. We were looking for something inexpensive so here we were. This is a small, 40 bedroom motel about 3 miles from Danbury. The rooms were nice and spacious but the bed wasn't very comfortable at all and our neighbor's alarm woke me nightly at around 2am ringing for half a hour. The room was clean and housekeeping cleaned our room and restocked the towels daily. We had cable along with three HBO channels and free wifi. The continental breakfast consisted of bagels, muffins, cereal, juice, coffee and tea. Some fruit or oatmeal would have been nice but I guess you can't expect too much for 55 dollars a night. This motel was sufficient but not overly impressive. They also allowed my dog for 10 extra per night. The staff was very friendly also.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Columbia Marriott; City: Columbia South Carolina; Review: We stayed here last weekend. Hotel is right downtown within walking distance of everything. There's a lot to be said for southern hospitality, from the check in to the friendly bartender and waitresses. They were very informative about what to do in the area and helpful letting us check early. The parking meters on the weekends are free so we were able to park right across the street instead of in the garage which I am not sure whether there is a charge for parking in or not. Since we are gold members with Mariott we got free bottled water and breakfast also. The breakfast included made to order omelets, bacon, sausage, potatoes, pastries, oatmeal, fruit and grits. There is an indoor pool and large gym. I was sort of hoping for an outdoor pool since it was so warm but we weren't there but one night. The rooms were spacious and clean with bath and body works toiletries. The bar also had a nice selection of wines.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: La Quinta Inn Suites Winchester; City: Winchester Virginia; Review: We stayed here a couple nights on our way to CT and back. They allow you to bring your dog for a free of charge and deliver a bed and dog bowls to your room! The hotel itself is very nice and modern. It has a indoor pool and bigger than average fitness center for a hotel. They also have a bar, fireplace, pool table and cafe in the lobby. When we arrived I picked up a plate of cheese for two dollars then headed over to the bar for a nice glass of wine. The rooms are spacious for a boutique hotel and open, so there is no door on the bathroom. The beds were comfy, we had free wifi and a nice big stand up shower. Oh and free bottled water also. For 70 bucks a night you can't beat this deal.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: SpringHill Suites by Marriott Danbury; City: Danbury Connecticut; Review: We stayed here last Thursday through Sunday. The hotel has a fitness center with a few weights, elliptical machine a couple of treadmills. It also has an indoor whirlpool and swimming pool. The lobby area has a little market where you can purchase snacks and beverages. Each morning a free breakfast is available which includes some hot items such as bacon, sausage, eggs and oatmeal. They also had bagels, muffins, danishes, cinnamon buns, biscuits and do-it-yourself waffles. I was impressed by the amount of toppings that were available for the oatmeal and waffles. During the week you get a USA Today newspaper delivered to your room. Parking was always abundant. Our first room was a double bed room since that's all they had available when we checked in. The next day they were able to switch us to a king. The room had a separate sink outside the bathroom which is nice so someone else can use the bathroom and shower as you get dressed. There was also a separate seating area with a loveseat and a kitchen sink, microwave and small fridge. The bed was very comfortable and the room was cleaned and left with fresh linens daily. Only two complaints I have are the noise level and a privacy issue with the curtains. I could hear pretty much everything my neighboring room was doing (showering, opening cabinets, coming and going). I could also hear the people above us moving around as well. There is a set of sheer white panels covering the windows and two other small drapes that are fixed and aren't big enough to close. The first night we were facing the parking lot and I had a major problem with this. We managed to get the smaller drapes to come together with a couple pins. After we switched rooms and faced the back of the hotel I didn't mind as much although I don't understand why a hotel would have curtains that don't close.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Holiday Inn Hotel Suites North; City: Columbia South Carolina; Review: Just came back from a two night stay with my boyfriend. He is in the military and we stayed at this hotel for two days because it is close to Fort Jackson. I will start out with the pros: Close to highway Modern decor Close to restaurants Friendly housekeeping and maintenance workers Big Flat screen TV microwave and refrigerator super comfy beds spacious room bath and body works shampoo, conditioner, and lotion My boyfriend was not the only military personal staying at this hotel. There were many others, there was also a convention going on at the hotel. My first morning here, I arrived for breakfast at 9:15, the remains of the buffet were sparse and cold. However, shortly after arriving the waitress brought out a fresh supply. The following morning my boyfriend arrived to pick breakfast up for us at 9:30. The buffet had already closed. He is a platinum member so he was able to use the breakfast vouchers to place a menu order. Another military member, actually one of his soldiers, arrived around the same time as he did and was told the buffet was over and the buffet wasn't just for the army, whatever that meant. My boyfriend took care of his solder and gave him one of his vouchers and we shared a plate. The hotel also offers no lunch. My boyfriend took the car to Fort Jackson so my only option was the cross the busy intersection in an unfamiliar area or order pizza. I skipped both of those and went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner with him. Our first night there the internet was unbearably slow because of the convention according to front desk. The next day it worked fine. Our faucet in the tub also did not work without the shower running at the same time. We could not get another room as the hotel was sold out. The fluorescent lighting in the room is horrible, so if you are over 30 good luck reading at night. The lighting in the bathroom was worse and yellow walls did not make it any easier seeing in the dark shower. It was not a very quiet stay being so close to the highway and I could hear the other guests and housekeeping loud and clear in the morning through early afternoon. This wouldn't be much of an issue had I not had to study while there but it's unlikely that we will be back anyway.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: New York Marriott East Side; City: New York City New York; Review: We stayed here a couple weekends ago. We read on foursquare that we should ask for a room with a view on one of the higher floors. We asked and we received. We stayed in a corner room on the 19th floor. Amazing view of the historic district on Lexington Avenue and we could even see a bit of the river out of the corner window. The room was pretty spacious by New York standards, had a big flat screen television, comfy bed, nice reading lights above the bed, and a little hallway leading to the bathroom which was also lovely. At the end of the hall was a closet to hang clothes and a safe. We had read earlier that parking was 60 bucks so we parked down the street for 30 and walked to the hotel. My only complaint is the noise at night. We could hear sirens and honking horns pretty frequently. Also our neighboring room was a having a little late night party that woke us up at 2:30am but they settled down shortly after that and we were able to go back to sleep.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hilton Garden Inn Indianapolis Carmel; City: Carmel Hamilton County Indiana; Review: My best girlfriend/future maid-of-honor and I stayed here on a recent trip up to Indiana to search for wedding venues. I have an awards membership with Hilton, Marriott, Priority Club/Holiday Inn, and Starwood hotels. I have higher status with Marriott and Holiday Inn but am sort of over Marriott's hit or miss customer service and there wasn't a Holiday Inn close by that had decent online reviews. I always check reviews on yelp and tripadvisor before staying at a hotel in an unfamiliar area. I booked this hotel about a month in advance and paid about a month in advance, saving about 20 dollars per night by doing so. This hotel sits far enough off the road that road noise wasn't a problem for me when sleeping. Upon arrival, we promptly greeted, checked in, and received complimentary waters in our room. The room was nicely appointed and had a microwave and mini fridge. You could adjust the firmness or softness on the side of your mattress to your liking, which was a nice touch. The room also had a modern flat screen TV, ergonomic chair, desk, ample storage space, and a good size bathroom with Neutrogena toiletries. The bed was super comfy and I slept well till about 3am when the honeymooners next door woke me up. This isn't the first time this has happened to me in a hotel. And why does it have to happen when my fiancee is overseas, rub it in why don't ya! Anyway, they settled down in about thirty minutes and I was able to go back to sleep. We utilized the pool and jacuzzi, which were both very nice but full of children. I like children but it's hard to enjoy the hot tub with them jumping in and out of it. I expect it with the the pool, with the hot tub, not so much. The gym had three machines, floor mats, and a bench with light weights. Unfortunately, it was filthy. There were Oreo wrappers in the elliptical machine's cup holder. Calories in, calories out, I suppose. And when I was doing floor exercises I could see how dirty the floor was. I let the staff know and they said they would take care of it. They did call to check on how things were during our stay. The breakfast was not free but with my Hilton rewards status I was able to get 2 dollars off, making it 8.95 instead of 10.95. Breakfast consisted of a buffet with cereal, pastries, yogurt, oatmeal, biscuits with gravy (surprising outside the south), eggs, omelets made to order, sausage, bacon, pancakes, and juice. Service was good, as was the food. The reason for four stars is the random fees they put on your debit card for incidentals. They did ask for a credit card for incidentals when I checked in but I thought it was just for room service or other fees acquired during the stay. I have been a victim of fraud before so I keep an eye on my bank account. I noticed three; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Holiday Inn Express Hotel Suites Columbus Fort Benning; City: Columbus Georgia; Review: We stayed at this hotel right before my fiance's deployment to Kuwait. He actually proposed to me during this time and had a dozen roses waiting for me, along with rose petals on the bed and floor, chocolates, and wine waiting for me in the room upon arrival. Our room had a nice hot tub and comfy bed. The room was spacious and nicely appointed with a flat screen TV, mini fridge, and microwave. Service and breakfast were excellent. Breakfast was complimentary, and included eggs, bacon, oatmeal, cereals, yogurt, pastries, juices, fruit and a self-serve pancake machine. The hotel also had a nice business center equipped with two large flat screen computers. Wi-fi is free, as well. We will definitely be back, as we plan to stay here when I pick him up from his deployment.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Holiday Inn Express Hotel Suites Columbus Fort Benning; City: Columbus Georgia; Review: We stayed here again during my fiancee's redeployment this month. After driving all day, picking my fiancee up in ATL rush hour traffic, and him being up for 30 hours, we were both beyond tired. We didn't receive the most welcome greeting, no platinum priority club membership rewards, and no promise of a late check-out. According the the front desk lady that evening, late check-outs aren't granted upon priority club status. Late check-outs are given on a "first come, first serve basis". Luckily we were staying for five days, and most of the other guests had departed once we left, so we were able to get a late check-out. This was necessary, as my fiancee usually didn't get off work at Fort Benning until at least noon. Additionally, our room wasn't nearly as clean as it was during our first stay. The floors were somehow sticky and leaving a dirty residue on my socks. It was a hassle to get clean towels each day. My fiancee had to be at Fort Benning by 6am each morning, so unfornunately, he was unable to enjoy the free breakfast. One would think since a good portion of this hotel's business stems from military personal and family's they could start breakfast a few minutes early. I suppose if they wouldn't have set the bar so high during our first visit we wouldn't have felt let down during this stay.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Drury Inn Suites Indianapolis Northeast; City: Indianapolis Indiana; Review: We stayed here for the first time at the end of last year and again during our wedding. We were originally attracted to this facility as they allow pets at no charge. They also had excellent online reviews. We were impressed by the level of customer service we received and we were offered an additional night for half price. We decided to take them up on the offer. They also have a light dinner and cocktail hour each evening. The dinner isn't of the healthiest variety but it's free, so we'll take it. They also give you three free alcoholic beverages each evening. We don't drink but thought this was a great value. They had a full hot breakfast, as well. Briefly after our arrival, we received a knock on our door. It was children selling candy to help "homeless children". We didn't buy it and went about our business. A few minutes later another knock, the same thing. I called the front desk to let them know about this. It didn't happen again. Other than the soliciting, we were happy with our stay. We decided to use them for our stay during our wedding, as well as, for our guests to stay at. We set up an account with them so guests could book their room under our name. Some of guests were paying for their rooms, we payed for the wedding party's accommodations. They had a lot of confusion over this, especially once we checked in. I received a call from the front desk during my rehearsal dinner asking if we were paying for photographer's room. I told them we were and told them to use our credit card. This was a little annoying because of the timing and the fact we had given them our credit card during check and explained the situation again at that time. They were very apologetic and fixed it. With the exception of this issue, I was pleased with our stay. The hotel gets pretty crowded in the evening on the weekends, particularly downstairs. The elevators are slow during this time. This normally wouldn't be a problem, as I don't mind climbing stairs but nine stories in a wedding dress isn't easy. To sum it up this hotel reminds me a bit of Embassy Suite hotels. The cocktail hour and light dinner, along with the full breakfast seemed very similar to Embassy Suites. The room we stayed at on our wedding night was more reminiscent of the large suites, as well. Although the huge with jacuzzi tub was an added bonus. They also allow pets for no charge. I think if we stay at a Drury Inn again it'll be because pets are allowed for no charge.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hampton Inn Suites Myrtle Beach Oceanfront; City: Myrtle Beach South Carolina; Review: We choose this hotel primarily because of the location and Hampton Inn & Suite hotels have never let us down. They met and exceeded our expectations this week, as well. We choose a King Ocean Front room. Upon arrival, we were promptly greeted. There were fresh cookies in the lobby and big beautiful window overlooking the ocean. They also gave us a military discount of 10 percent since my husband is in the military. The hotel had 9 pools, a nice gym, and complimentary hot breakfast. They gave us a room at the end of the hall. We had a nice balcony overlooking the ocean, big cozy bed, full kitchen, and bathroom with a separate shower and tub. Everything was immaculate. I look forward to visiting again the near future.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: TownePlace Suites Columbia Southeast Fort Jackson; City: Columbia South Carolina; Review: We just got back from a short trip to Columbia, SC over the weekend. We chose to stay at the Towneplace Suites because they offer a military rate and they are pet friendly ($35 dollar one-time fee). We were placed on the second floor beneath the staircase and neighboring other rooms with pets, as well. It was not a very quiet stay to say the least. The hotel itself is very nice and clean. Our room included a kitchenette. The beds were comfortable and electrical outlets were conveniently located beneath the wall lamps on each side of the bed. This is a little detail I've come to appreciate in the newer and updated hotels. Our two dogs don't bark with the exception of when someone knocks on the door. I stepped out to have lunch with husband on Saturday at 1pm and received a phone call 45 minutes later that a couple of people had complained about our dogs barking. What I'd like to know is, unless the front desk clerk went door to door of each of the rooms that had dogs (I know there were at least three, because I saw different people with different dogs), how would he know it was our dogs barking? We promptly returned to the hotel and I spent the rest of the weekend in the room with our dogs. During that time, I heard a baby crying above, not to mention people climbing up and down the stairs, and other dogs barking, as well. I decided I wouldn't call and complain like someone else did. I attempted to get some work done on the internet instead, which was very slow. Forget getting anything turned in on a deadline between the hours of 4 and 11pm. The following day during our check-out, there was no hot water for tea in the lobby. A nice young man behind the front desk went and made some for us, which was greatly appreciated. I think overall our stay was okay. I'm not sure whether or not we will return. I want to check out other options in the area since we will be coming down at least one weekend per month. We stayed with our dog at the Drury Inn and Suites on multiple occasions and left our dog for four hours, and never heard one complaint.; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
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Title: Four Points by Sheraton Medan; City: Medan North Sumatra Sumatra; Review: My first time stay here and the hotel is very nice. Interior in public area is awesome as well as in the room. Free wifi and good connection, room clean, breakfast is nice with a variety meal provided. I am asking for non smoking and yes the room does not have any smoking odors at all. Staffs are nice also. Wish my next trip here will be in the same elite services..; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Alpha Inn; City: Medan North Sumatra Sumatra; Review: I had been stay at this hotel a few times, the room is dirty and smelly. You can mosquitoes in the room and the bed sheet has lots of stained. Although the hotel's rate is considered lowbudget, but please make more decent for guest to stay. Wifi connection is good, this is the only services that i like on this hotel; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: The Hotel Fifth Avenue; City: New York City New York; Review: I certainly will stay in this hotel for my future trip to new york. Location is awesome and safe, room is clean. Only bathroom is small as well as lobby and breakfast dining. Elevator is small and only two, thus for peak hours we need to wait a few minutes. But overall, nice hotel to stay in new york with a reasonable rate.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Casa Hotel Hong Kong; City: Hong Kong; Review: I csn say that the only good things in this hotel is location, the rests are below standard. The room is extremely small, we had to put our lluggages right in front of the door. The bathroom : we barely can move, iit is only 1.2m x 1 meter.. Although there is a mon smoking sign along the corridors, but guests are still smokinan smells from our room.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Sanya Bay Mangrove Tree Resort; City: Sanya Hainan; Review: The hotel is new, rooms are big, clean, bathroom is big, has sofa, desk, free wifi. The hotel, has three main building, has pool, lots of restaurant, lobby is big, several shops, and minimart. Location is a bit far from city and beach, but they provide shuttle thrice a day to sanya beach. Overall, it is very nice hotel to stay for relaxing either with friends, family or for couple. Some stuffs that are bothering, most of the hotel staffs, they only can speak mandarin, guests are smoking elsewhere in public area and the worst is inside the lift. Breakfast is very hectic, long queue, over crowed. Needs to wait at least 10 minute to find seat, foods are ok with lots of variety. Tips: advised to used hotel rental car although is expensive for those that can not speak mandarin. No outside taxi since they only can speak mandarin and some taxi they even do not want to use meters.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Cityview Hong Kong; City: Hong Kong; Review: First time staying in this hotel, I shall say it is a great location, close to metro subway, shops, foods, ladies market, etc. The room itself, it is standard for hotel in hongkong in term of size and price. The staffs are nice and very helpful. Overall, it is good to stay in this hotel. In front of the hotel, there is a small restaurant named, Eastern kitchen, the food is very nice with reasonable price. Must try.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hotel Santika Premiere Dyandra; City: Medan North Sumatra Sumatra; Review: Hotel is worth to stay for either for business, couples, and family. The location is in the central of Medan. I like the breakfast since they serve in a variety food and drinks comparing to others 4 stars hotel in Medan. The room is cleaned and well maintained. The staff is nice and helpful. This hotels is worth to be considering when you visit Medan,; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
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Title: Ibis Budget Szczecin; City: Szczecin Western Pomerania Province Western Poland; Review: Room was clean, bathroom had new shower and also clean. Room was also spacious. Carpet was dated and had some old stains. Breakfast was good for the money, ham, cheese, salami, cereals, bread rolls, jams, juices, hotdogs ( sausage was in the plastic wrappiņg which was difficult to remove). Coffe was good. Opposite the hotel was KFC and pizzeria ( not so good one). Reception staff was friendly. Parking was about 30 zlot for 24 hours.wifi was free and worked good. No airco in the room.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ibis Styles Riga; City: Riga Riga Region; Review: Good for one or two nights, not more. Rooms are average, with old carpeting, small, bathroom is tiny, air co very noisy, only on and off stand (only works if you window is closed).Room was very stuffy and first thing open the window and then try out ac which of course would not work ( because window was open, who knew, hotel staff maybe?). At night was awake because smoke detector right above my bed, it flashed like space ship landing ( never seen such a flashy smoke detector, I suppose your survive any fire in this hotel because you never will sleep). Reception staff was very business, no extra words and smile. Though only thing I recommend is the restaraurant at the to floor, beautiful vieuw and excellent food.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gotthard Residents; City: Tallinn Harju County; Review: This hotel is located right in the middle of old town, old house from medieval time, room was cosy and clean, though you couldn't lift roman curtain in front of the window,vso even at the daytime had to have a lamp on. Mentioned it to reception and someone came to see, but at least at my stay for 2 nghts, it stayed so. Breakfast was ok, breakfast room was quite small so with one big group of tourists all tables were occupied rather quickly. Some people were eating at the table in the hallway. Also, there is no elevator, so had to drag my suitcase to 3rd floor..can be noisy at night at summer time, cafe/pub around the corner. Anyway, nice location, staff ok .; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hotel Ariane; City: Nancy Meurthe et Moselle Grand Est; Review: Easily to find, follow your gps, private parking, somewhat "tired" hotel, we had family room, with 3 beds, beds were good, room was clean also bathroom. It seemed in the entire hotel was lacking ventilation, was no climate control, except the window. There was this specific smell in the room, we opened the window to air right away. Anyway, for one night it was ok, if you are not too fussy. Price was good and it seemed to be quite popular. We tried to eat at the restaurant but waited someone to approach but no one came so went to grill nearby. Didn't have breakfast. Nice budget range hotel nothing too fancy, ideal for families for overnight stay.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ibis Styles Nancy Sud; City: Houdemont Meurthe et Moselle Grand Est; Review: Ideal for stopover if going south, we had family room, room was clean, bathroom also. Ideal for families with 2 kds. Only disappointment was breakfast, when we arrived at 9.15 they were already cleaning around us, moving tables and chairs. Breakfast was supposed to be until 10. Anyway, baguette was old and hard, juice was only orange juice and apple, milk for cornflakes was enough for only one of the kids, didn't see anyone refilling anything there.Cold cuts were one kind of ham and couple of local cheeses. Honestly we had better breakfast in Ibis budget, or there no difference anymore? At least try to have your baguette fresh at least. Wifi worked good. Around the hotel a lot of fastfood places, kfc, mcdonalds,quick, grill, etc Go and take your breakfast in mcdonalds yoyll save money on it.; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
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Title: Killarney Guest House; City: Cork County Cork; Review: This is a B&B that's actually two non-connected buildings. We stayed in the Crawford House, though the breakfast room is next door in the Killarney House. We were there for two nights. The price was reasonable and the room was comfortable. The tub in the bathroom had an extremely high side, so it could be a bit dangerous for anyone who has difficulty lifting his leg high enough to step over it. The full Irish breakfast was delicious. I ordered pancakes the second morning, and didn't like those as much. The staff were very accommodating. We were driving the Ring of Kerry and had to call a couple of times to revise our arrival time. It was after 10:00 p.m. when we finally arrived, but they were very nice about it. There is free parking and wifi. One thing to note about hotels in Ireland: they do not provide washcloths or tissues, and even if the room is for 3 people, they will only have 2 glasses and 2 coffee cups.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dobbins Inn Hotel; City: Carrickfergus County Antrim Northern Ireland; Review: I felt like I was stepping into the past when we entered Dobbin's Inn. It reminded me of the kinds of places I'd seen in old movies. The staff were friendly and helpful, the room was comfortable, and the price was reasonable. There was a large room on the second floor with a large fireplace (not lit) and stained glass, a lovely place to relax. The full Irish breakfast was delicious. There's free parking (most of it is on the street) and wifi. It's within walking distance of Carrickfergus Castle and the lovely marina, and PaPa Brown's Grill. There's even a legend about a haunted room. The only downside was that the tub in the bathroom had an extremely high side, so it could be a bit dangerous for anyone who has difficulty lifting his leg high enough to step over it. One thing to note about hotels in Ireland: they do not provide washcloths or tissues, and even if the room is for 3 people, they will only have 2 glasses and 2 coffee cups. I would highly recommend Dobbins Inn to anyone staying in Northern Ireland.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ramada Limited Bloomington; City: Bloomington Bloomington Normal Illinois; Review: We stayed one night when we were in town for a wedding. The family had reserved a block of rooms for out-of-town guests. The hotel was easy to get to from the interstate. The room was nice, with two queen beds and a good-sized bathroom. There was a decent amount of desk/counter space in the room for setting up our stuff (suitcases, laptops, etc.) The front desk staff were friendly and helpful. Breakfast was standard: fruit, muffins, cereal, waffle maker; they also had biscuits and gravy. Our one complaint was that they were quite slow to refill items.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Clarion Highlander Hotel and Conference Center; City: Iowa City Iowa; Review: We were in Iowa City for the Book Festival and stayed one night. The room was clean and comfortable. The front desk staff were friendly and helpful. Breakfast was good. Our only complaint was that the juice was room temperature, which isn't very appetizing. We would stay there again.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mont Rest Inn; City: Bellevue Iowa; Review: I've gone back and forth about how to rate the Mont Rest. There were aspects that deserved a 4, and aspects that deserved a 5. Taking into consideration its reputation and that it is very expensive, I believe it should be held to a higher standard. First I'll talk about the inn itself. It is beautiful, and I enjoyed exploring each room and seeing all of the lovely furnishings and decorations. There is a small gift shop off the main entrance that had a large table set up with a sort of carnival village that was described as a representation of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Anybody who knows anything at all about that fair will recognize that this has nothing whatsoever to do with it -- there's no White City in sight -- but there are a lot of rides with moving parts and the buildings are lit up, so it is pretty cool for what it is. We stayed in the Bridget's French Roses room, which was beautiful and comfortable. There wasn't a lot of extra room in there, but it was adequate for the two of us. The bed was very high, but a stool was provided to help with getting into it, and there were a couple of chairs in the room so we had a place to sit for putting on our shoes, all of which was very nice. Now for the Gatsby Soiree: I have been a fan of anything to do with the Roaring Twenties since I was a young girl, so I was very excited when I heard about the Mont Rest's Dressed for Dinner Gatsby Soiree package. Our daughter and son-in-law treated us to it as a gift. She made all of the arrangements, so all we had to do was show up. The staff helped us pick out our costumes for the evening, and I can't say enough about how friendly, helpful, and patient they were. I felt very elegant (I have got to get a pair of those fingerless opera gloves!) and in the mood for the evening. Once we were all gathered for dinner, pictures were taken (some of these were later emailed to us, the rest were available to us on the inn's website), and we were served a glass of excellent champagne before going in to dinner. I was a bit disappointed by the dining room and table decorations; I was expecting something representative of the era, more art deco. There was a poster from the recent Great Gatsby movie, but it seemed out of place. Looking at pictures on the website later, our table decorations appeared to be the same as what is used for the Titanic dinner. That said, they were very beautiful and elegant. The dinner wasn't the 10 course meal advertised; there were really only 7 courses. I'm not sure how they got to 10, unless they were counting each item served. The food was excellent and beautifully plated. I like my steaks rare, and my filet mignon was perfectly done. Dessert involved lots; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Quality Inn Suites Kansas City I 70 East; City: Independence Missouri; Review: We come to KC every year when the Cardinals are in town, and we like to stay in Independence because of it's convenient location to the sports complex. I had never tried this hotel before. On the hotel website it showed that the first night was a very reasonable price, but it went up considerably the second night (I later learned there was some sort of convention in town). When I called to make the reservation, the woman with whom I spoke offered to give me the less expensive rate both nights. I thought that was very nice. The room was decent. The only problem was that the key card readers on some of the doors from the outside didn't work, so we never knew for sure which door we would be able to use. Breakfast was fine. The egg things were tasteless, but the sausage was good. They serve cookies in the evening, but we always had to be at the ballpark before they were ready. The location was convenient to several restaurants. The free wifi worked. The price was right. I would stay here again.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Hotel Pattee; City: Perry Iowa; Review: The Hotel Pattee is a destination hotel, since I'm not sure Perry, Iowa, is on the way anywhere. We went because my in-laws were given a complimentary room for one night in honor of their 65th wedding anniversary. They invited us to come as their guests, and were given a complimentary upgrade to our room. We arrived on a Friday; there was live music in the lobby until 10:00. It was a jazz duo, very enjoyable. There were trays of chocolate chip cookies in the lobby and on each floor. The rooms are all themed. We stayed in the Chautauqua room, which was huge. There was a table and several chairs, so we had room for the four of us to play cards. The bathroom was enormous. (Their special soap smells great; you can buy some to take home, but it's very pricey.) The bed was comfortable and the room was clean. My in-laws stayed in the Needlework room, which was also very attractive. Later in the evening my mother-in-law and I went down to the library, which was a lovely place to sit and talk until, oddly, they began to play music over the PA system at 11:00. The next morning, after breakfast in the hotel restaurant, we did a bit of exploring, and found the spa, fitness center, and bowling alley. My only complaint would be a little trouble we had checking in. I was asked for a credit card; my mother-in-law kept explaining that she was paying. The young woman seemed very confused by this. We eventually sorted it out, but it seemed like it shouldn't have been such an issue. The rooms are very reasonably priced for a hotel of this quality. I would recommend the Hotel Pattee as a great place for a getaway.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: La Quinta Inn New Orleans Veterans Metairie; City: Metairie Louisiana; Review: We stayed here to save money over the much more expensive hotels in New Orleans. The price was very reasonable and they gave us connecting rooms. The hotel is badly in need of updating and cosmetic work. The swing bar lock on the door to one of our rooms was loose and difficult to unlock. Our room was relatively clean and quiet. The elevator was very slow; at first we thought it wasn't working. The corridor where the ice machine was located was unlit and felt unsafe; later I found a closer one that was better lit. Breakfast was adequate, but there were only four tables in the breakfast area, not nearly enough for a hotel full of guests. A lot of people were sitting in the few extra chairs eating off their laps, or standing around waiting for something to open up. This was my biggest complaint. It wouldn't be that hard to set up a few more tables.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Woodstock Inn Bed and Breakfast; City: Independence Missouri; Review: We like to stay in Independence when we come to see the Cardinals play the Royals. This year the hotels filled up early, so when I found Woodstock Inn online for less than what some hotels were charging, I thought we'd give it a try. We stayed in the Scandinavian room, which is very small, but we don't usually spend a lot of time in the room. The bed was comfortable and the room was clean. Pam, the manager, was very nice and friendly. There were homemade chocolate chip cookies when we checked in. Breakfast the first morning was good if nothing special, but for that price we weren't expecting gourmet. The second morning was a bit different. There was a sort of French toast casserole that was very soggy and hard to eat, and a tiny serving of scrambled eggs on our plate that we were told was small because the eggs had been used in the casserole. Since there wasn't a desk or anyplace to set up a laptop in our room, I came downstairs in the evening when nobody was around and set up on the living room sofa. It was nice and quiet and the wifi worked great. We got a deal through the inn with a local limo service for a drive to the ballpark and back for $10 per couple. That's only slightly more than the parking fee, so it was a nice feature. I would stay there again.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Prairie Rose Bed and Breakfast; City: Amana Iowa; Review: I've stayed at the Prairie Rose twice, once with a friend and once with my mother-in-law. Both times we had a very enjoyable stay. Marye, the owner, is wonderful. The rooms are beautiful and comfortable. The fridge in our rooms had complimentary bottled water,and there were brownies and other treats in the kitchen. Marye made us delicious blackberry waffles for breakfast. I have stayed in much more expensive B&Bs and haven't been treated this well. There are three rooms; one has a private bathroom, and the other two share a bathroom that is just down the hall a short way. No one else is allowed to use that bathroom. Marye only rents out the third room to a larger group that wants both rooms so that the bathroom is shared by people who know each other. We took the rooms with the detached bath, and found that it wasn't inconvenient at all. There are even some nice bathrobes provided. There are TVs in the rooms, and one with a DVD player in the common area. The free wifi worked. It's within walking distance of two restaurants and several shops. The Prairie Rose is not handicap accessible. There are a few steps to get into the house, and then about 15 steps to get upstairs, but everything is upstairs so once you're there you can stay put. Also, to get here I recommend that you take the unmarked street between 44th and 45th streets. Parking is in front of the house. When we were here, 45th had some washed out spots and our car nearly bottomed out. On the other street we had no problem at all. I highly recommend Prairie Rose if you're coming to visit the Amana Colonies.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Residence Inn Baton Rouge Siegen Lane; City: Baton Rouge Louisiana; Review: There were five of us, so we stayed in a suite with two rooms and a sofa in the sitting area. There was plenty of room and the suite was clean and comfortable. The room description online said that only one bedroom had a door, and the other had a divider between it and the living room, so we were pleasantly surprised to find that both bedrooms had doors, so everyone had privacy. Breakfast was good, but nothing special, just a basic hotel breakfast. My only complaint is that there wasn't any extra bedding for the pull-out sofa. We called the front desk, but they didn't have anybody who could bring it to us, so we had to go down and get it. In most hotels I've stayed in, when there's a sofa bed, there's extra bedding in the closets. Other than that one hitch, we enjoyed our stay.; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: Tyrrells Ford Country Inn Hotel; City: Avon Christchurch Dorset England; Review: The hotel stands in its own grounds several hundred yards from the road. We ate our lunch in the bar area on a busy Sunday denoting this is a popular venue. The service was attentive and friendly, there was a good choice of food and the standard was satisfactory when it arrived. The atmosphere was pleasant and I will be prepared to return here.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Horton Inn; City: Horton Wimborne Minster Dorset England; Review: Simon appeared to be running this establishment and Thomas was behind the bar. We have stopped here many times in the past, but our last visit was some time ago. On this occasion we stopped for lunch. My wife Mary had a Gammon steak and I had beef lasagne. Both meals were of a good quality and mine was particularly delicious. The staff are attentive looked after us well. This is a place to which I would return, if only for the food alone.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ocean Beach Hotel and Spa OCEANA COLLECTION; City: Bournemouth Dorset England; Review: 1347 2017 MAY 26 OCEAN BEACH HOTEL BOURNEMOUTH 18 1 001 1 677 005 Mary. Panna Arabieta: garlic, basil, red wine, tomato, red chilli pepper, parsley, grated Pecorino Romano cheese, with seafood liqui. 9.90 Lychee and passionfruit panna cotta. 5.70 One glass of Prosecco. (5.95) One glass of tap water. 0.00 1 cup of cappuccino coffee. 3.50 Adrian. Prime beef ragout and bechamel, topped with cheese and bread crumbs, mixed leaves. 10.90 Local made raspberry gelato and sorbet. (4.60) 2 glasses of tap water. 0.00 1 cup of coffee. 3.50 Total. 33.75 Luciano with his waitress colleague helped me to use the chair to surmount the steep flight of steps into the restaurant. I am disabled and I was not enthused the flight of steps required to gain entrance to the restaurant even though a chair had been provided, so for that reason I would not be keen on repeating the experience. However, this would not affect the normal diner and as far as the food is concerned I would have no hesitation in recommending this restaurant. The portions were adequate and every course had good flavours. The service was attentive and the staff made this a pleasant experience.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Manor at Sway; City: Sway Brockenhurst New Forest National Park Hampshire Hampshire Engla; Review: Marjorie was on the reception desk and greeted us as we arrived. I already knew this hotel is under new management since our last visit and has been completely redecorated; the Conservatory removed ostensibly to attract a younger generation of clientele "because it had become a haunt for an older generation of retired people". The result was plain to see: it was completely empty when we arrived for lunch on a Thursday at 12:30 hours. The retired generation who had played a major part in keeping this hotel financially solvent had decamped elsewhere, the badges signifying a meeting place of the local Rotary and Round Table had been removed and as we walked through the door at 12:30 hours it was completely empty, whereas on all previous occasions we have been met with a hubbub of conversation and the place has been full. Another retired couple 45 min later, an American couple had coffee in another room while we were there (she complained volubly regarding a problem in her room) and as we left I could see another couple having coffee in the lounge. This was the total number of persons in the lounge and dining room in the hour and a half we were there. The decorations (according to the Daily Telegraph) were designed to appeal to the middle-aged generation, but as far as I could see they would be acceptable to anybody whatever their age. The starter was composed of three slices of salmon, two pieces of beetroot, a slice of dried seaweed and a white sauce like concoction. I waited hopefully for the main course. When it eventually came the chicken was generous in quantity and completely satisfactory in taste. The desert when it arrived was a 1.5 x 1" block of chocolate sponge topped with cream the size and shape of a golf ball. The music during our visit was almost uninterrupted warbling of songs in French, fortunately it was being played at a low level. We have eaten here many times over the last quarter-century, but this particular visit did not reach the standard of some excellent experiences in the past.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Tyrrells Ford Country Inn Hotel; City: Avon Christchurch Dorset England; Review: By any stretch of the imagination this cannot be classed as much of a successful lunch. We knew we would be charged a surcharge by eating in the hotel restaurant, but when Gemma told us we could not order fish pie because it was not on the restaurant menu we protested and she fetched the manager Mark. He agreed we could have fish pie at £12.95 and told me there would be no surcharge, but when I came to the checkout till I was charged an extra £0.45. The food took around an hour to arrive after being ordered, which is not satisfactory. The desert course also took an age to arrive which I did not find unexpected, but some of my companions at the table disagreed with me. Frankly I was glad to get out. The music was dreadful in the restaurant, but thankfully masked by the conversation of the noisy people at the next table. We have been here many times and shall return, but this was not one of the most memorable visits.; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Primos 65805 Gen 2 Tripod Trigger Stick, 18-38-Inch; Brand: Primos Hunting; Review: works great, very secure adjustments. would buy again if it would wear out, I doubt it will seems very well made.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Nikon HB-69 Bayonet Lens Hood - Only fits the Nikon 18-55mm G VR II DX AF-S Lens; Brand: Nikon; Review: fits perfectly, not loose at all; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Nikon CL-0815 Soft Lens Case for 55-200mm DX Nikkor Lens; Brand: Nikon; Review: fits my AFS 55-300 DX perfectly.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Altura Photo 49-58MM Step-Up Ring Adapter (49MM Lens to 58MM Filter or Accessory) + Premium MagicFiber Cleaning Cloth; Brand: Goja; Review: Works as expected. Excellent trustworthy seller who follows up on sale. Would highly recommend for future purchases.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Foto&Tech Clear Medium Battery Storage Case/Organizer/Holder for Nikon Canon DSLR Camera Rechargeable Li-Ion / AA / AAA; Brand: Foto&Tech; Review: 5 fits my Nikon EN-EL15 battery perfectly; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Manfrotto MK055XPRO3-BHQ2 Aluminum 3-Section Tripod with XPRO Ball Head and 200PL QR Plate; Brand: Manfrotto; Review: Highly recommended. If you are looking for sturdy with no weight consideration, this is it. You will probably want to get a nice case, folded with head on it is about 29 1/2 inches long.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Manfrotto MB MBAG80N Unpadded 80cm Tripod Bag; Brand: Manfrotto; Review: fits my Manfrotto MK055XPRO3-BHQ2 Aluminum 3-Section Tripod with XPRO Ball Head and 200PL QR Plate and a box of kimwipes. Well made, nice wide adjustable shoulder strap. Would by again,but unless it's stolen or lost I won't have to.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: dCables Nikon D7200 USB Cable - USB Computer Cord for D7200; Brand: dCables; Review: works great on my d7200, longer than the one supplied with the camera so more versatility on my camera placement for downloading images uploading software updates etc. A nice bonus is it fits my Nikon 610 point and shoot as well.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Electronics |
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Title: Amscan Bright Sesame Street 1st Birthday Jumbo Letter Banner Kit, Multicolor; Brand: Amscan; Review: I didn't know that these didn't have fixed spacing between the letters, so it was a bit annoying to space them out when hanging them. On the other hand, no matter what space I wanted to drape them over, they fit! I would recommend them!; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Learning Resources Sliceable Fruits & Veggies, 23 Pieces; Brand: Learning Resources; Review: He will pull them all apart and I will put them back together. Still doesn't know what to do with the knife yet, but I'm sure he'll get that in the coming months.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Schleich Carnotaurus Figure; Brand: Schleich; Review: This dinosaur is now my son's favorite. It's just like the carnotaurus in the movie dinosaurs that he loves so much. The jaw moves on this figure, overall it's amazing quality. Highly recommend this for any dinosaur lover!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: SainSmart Jr. 3D Maze Racer Handheld Game (Black) [Black Friday Deals]; Brand: SainSmart Jr.; Review: This is a great toy and I (as an adult) would enjoy it if I had an hour to burn, however I think it is very difficult for young children. My 5yo son was frustrated with it because of the holes in the maze that drop the ball to a previous part, so that you are continuously doing the same part over and over again. Just trying to get the ball to the start (which is in the center of the toy) is nearly impossible. I think this would be a great toy for a child who really likes mazes and being challenged, but not so great for a child just getting into them. Besides that, the toy feels well built and I like the handles.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: VTech Go! Go! Smart Animals Tree House Hideaway Playset; Brand: VTech Go! Go! Smart Animals; Review: My children loved the panda and that when you placed him on different features that he would say/sing different things. The 3 blocks going into different shaped holes was also a hit. We didn't use the track much because it constantly fell apart and was flimsy.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gift Boutique Building Blocks Treat Bags - 48 Pack; Brand: Gift Boutique; Review: Perfect size and great quality for our goodie bags!; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Toys_and_Games |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: The Gospel according to Mark (The Pillar New Testament Commentary (PNTC)); Author: Visit Amazon's James R. Edwards Page; Review: Edwards' commentary of Mark clearly comes from an evangelical perspective, though he fully interacts with more liberal views of the first gospel. His archaeological references are very helpful, especially in considering the geography of Mark's gospel. In addition, this commentary will be a great help to pastor/teachers, in that he has some very good homiletical applications and some great one-liners that would be helpful in your sermons. I highly recommend it.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Story of Israel: A Biblical Theology; Author: C. Marvin Pate; Review: This book by Pate, et al, left me wanting more. This crew comes at the issue of Biblical Theology from a progressive dispensationalist perspective, however they do not give their own views full explanation particularly in the chapter on Revelation. As a non-dispensationalist, I was quite interested in seeing their view on the issue. They do make some good insights, but overall I found reading it a bit slow at times. As a student of Scott Hafemann, I should add that they also misrepresent his view of the Old Covenant on p. 219. His actual view is that the Old Covenant is very much over and done with. But that's another issue.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The God of Promise and the Life of Faith: Understanding the Heart of the Bible; Author: Visit Amazon's Scott J. Hafemann Page; Review: Given, I had to read this book for Scott Hafemann's Biblical Theology course, so my view may be somewhat skewed. However, I found this book to be not only a fun read, but a powerful as well. Hafemann has helped to ease the tension between the covenants, between the Law and the Gospel, and between Jesus and Paul. Showing the Bible to be one unified, Christ-centered whole, Hafemann builds on John Piper's theology with sound exegetical arguments. To give you a heads up, know ahead of time that Hafemann is a proponent of single imputation, but don't let that turn you away. For many who want to see how this doctrine is played out practically, this is a must-read. Regardless of your view on the NPP, this book will be encouraging for your spiritual walk and theological development.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ultimate Comics Wolverine Vs. Hulk; Author: David Lindelof; Review: Don't purchase this new, unless you're a collector. It's a fun story, but not one you'll read over and over. Recommended as a used purchase.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Advent and Christmas Wisdom From G. K. Chesterton; Author: The Center For The Study Of C. S. Lewis And Friends; Review: My wife and I use this as a daily liturgical guide to help us prepare for and celebrate the Advent season. Short Chesterton quotes are paired thoughtfully with Scripture quotes, written prayers, and "Advent Actions" to help you practically engage the season. In addition, it could be used for special preparatory Advent services in a church or small group setting with some liturgical guides in the back for that environment. Overall, well worth your time. It's a highlight of our celebration of our Savior's birth!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Church Planting Is for Wimps: How God Uses Messed-up People to Plant Ordinary Churches That Do Extraordinary Things (9marks); Author: Visit Amazon's Mike McKinley Page; Review: Unlike a number of the reviewers, I knew that Mike McKinley was speaking from the perspective of a church revitalizer. While church revitalization and church planting are very different, they also have many similarities. As such, I think that this book was written to have application to Pastors/planters/revitalizers in both situations. That said, McKinley is quick to point out that he feels underqualified to be writing a book like this, after only four years of church revitalization. As a result of his own self-assessment, McKinley is cautious to not write like a guru on church planting or revitalization. Instead, he just shares his story, similar to Mark Driscoll's Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church (The Leadership Network Innovation). In fact, for church planters Driscoll's book might be a more helpful resource. Because McKinley had only been at it for four years when he wrote this book, the book ends up being a very short read with few astounding insights. I would give this book 3.5 stars if Amazon would let me do halves. Overall, I personally found this book to be an encouragement in the midst of God calling me to revitalize a church. Rather than a "how-to" book, McKinley seemed more like an old friend who is a few years ahead of me in the process of revitalization. His book gave opportunities for laughter, conversation fodder with my wife, and generally encouraging "it's not the end of the world" reassurances. If you're a church revitalizer, give this book a read. It will encourage you, even though it may not spell out exactly how you should do things. Of course, anybody who would claim that you wouldn't want to read anyway. Mike, thanks for your ministry and for this book. I pray that God will continue to show up and show off His faithfulness through your work.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Not Your Parents Offering Plate: A New Vision for Financial Stewardship; Author: Visit Amazon's J. Clif Christopher Page; Review: This is a book all about expectations. And this review is all about expectations. All in all, Christopher's book is filled with teaching that is both theologically and practically sound. He gives some important correctives to the trends in American Christianity's attitude toward tithing and monetary giving. My fear is that Christopher's work will not be received by those within a more Reformed or traditional Protestant tradition. Why? As you read Christopher's book, despite its being published in 2008, his tone smacks of the seeker-sensitive mentality of Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, et al. I consider myself well-versed in the seeker-sensitive movement, seeing some very strong points, and others which deserve criticism. When Christopher talks about the Pastor functioning as CEO, refers to the Church as a competitor with other non-profits, and generally takes a business management approach to giving, I know from experience that folks in a more traditional or Reformed setting will likely recoil. If you find yourself in this community, please give Christopher a hearing. His thoughts are rooted in both Biblical and practical grounds, and he speaks from the wisdom of experience (not just theory!). There is much that we can learn from Christopher's ministry as Pastors and church leaders. So please give him a read. I have a feeling that your expectations will change.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Miraculous Movements: How Hundreds of Thousands of Muslims Are Falling in Love with Jesus; Author: Visit Amazon's Jerry Trousdale Page; Review: This book is not an academic work, nor is it a how-to manual on Christian missionary work among Muslims. It is Jerry Trousdale recounting the stories of God's faithfulness to His people, who are planting churches and discipling Muslims in Africa. This book would be helpful/interesting to the following people: - Disciplers who are looking for examples of new methodologies they have not tried - People who are curious to know where/how the Church is growing most rapidly today - People who are planning a church planting/discipleship movement within the third world Trousdale's work is enjoyable, quick to read, and even helpful. If you are one of the people above, looking for another perspective on the topics listed above, check it out.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Kenobi: Star Wars Legends; Author: Visit Amazon's John Jackson Miller Page; Review: I enjoyed this book, but I went in expecting something different. These pointers will help prepare you for your read: (1) While the original film trilogy was a blend of sci-fi, samurai movies, and American Westerns, this book is a western with some sci-fi color thrown in. Kind of an interesting approach, but different from other SW novels. (2) Kenobi is NOT the protagonist. Instead, he is the loner, Clint Eastwood type who comes into town, makes everybody nervous, and eventually endears himself to the widow with the unruly children, who's trying to make ends meet. This woman is the protagonist and one you'll learn to love. (3) Sand people, moisture farms, posses. If you don't feel interested in these three things, you might want to stay away. But the sand people bit is pretty fascinating. Answered questions that I always had! Like other reviewers, I read this very quickly, always wanting to read just one more chapter! I'd love to see more stories from this period in Kenobi's life, though I'd hope they'd be a slightly different tone, so as to not get repetitious.; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with movies/shows as follows:
Title: Citizen Kane (1941); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Solaris (1972); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Alphaville (1965); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Underground (1995); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Scent of Green Papaya (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Young Ones: Every Stoopid Episode (1982); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hellraiser (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Sex and Lucia (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: RoboCop (1987); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: I (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Deconstructing Harry (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mr. Mom (1983); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Day After Tomorrow (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Gross Anatomy (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: North by Northwest (1959); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Better Off Dead (1985); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Visitor Q (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Manchurian Candidate (1962); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Real Genius (1985); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Seven (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Goonies (1985); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Big (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Full Metal Jacket (1987); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Stir of Echoes (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Alien vs. Predator (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dead Man (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Die Hard (1988); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Boys Don't Cry (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: In Praise of Love (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Princess and the Warrior (2000); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Paper Chase (1973); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Velvet Goldmine (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Wages of Fear (1952); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Life and Debt (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hurlyburly (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Taboo (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: 1984 (1984); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Schizopolis (1996); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Summer's Tale (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: To Sir (1966); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Slaughterhouse Five (1972); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Reservoir Dogs (1992); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Happiness (1998); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Speed (1994); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Talk to Her (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Being John Malkovich (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Collateral Damage (2002); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: The Prophecy 2 (1998); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Gray's Anatomy (1997); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Men in Black II (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Time Bandits (1981); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Last Samurai (2003); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Amores Perros (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mission: Impossible (1996); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Spaceballs (1987); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Dr. Strangelove (1964); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Rocky (1976); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sling Blade (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Memento (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fight Club (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Edward Scissorhands (1990); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Blue (1993); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Top Gun (1986); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Punch-Drunk Love (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Annie Hall (1977); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Election (1999); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Boogie Nights (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: American Pie 2 (2001); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: A Clockwork Orange (1971); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Gangs of New York (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Taxi Driver (1976); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Fourth Man (1983); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Bee Gees: This is Where I Came In (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Pulp Fiction (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: 21 Grams (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Forrest Gump (1994); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Three Men and a Baby (1987); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Lost in Translation (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Coming to America (1988); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Hero (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Thelma & Louise: Special Edition (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Men in Black (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Prophecy (1995); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Coyote Ugly (2000); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Air Force One (1997); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Basic Instinct (1992); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Total Recall (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Starship Troopers (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Turkish Delight (1974); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Raising Arizona (1987); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Independence Day (1996); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: L'Auberge Espagnole (2002); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Con Air (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Green Mile (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: West Side Story (1961); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Titanic (1997); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Love and Death (1975); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Indian Runner (1991); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Spellbound (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Secretary (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Requiem for a Dream (2000); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: M (1931); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy (1930); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Last Life in the Universe (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: All the President's Men (1976); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Man of La Mancha (1972); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Master of the Flying Guillotine (1975); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Knife in the Water (1962); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Sixteen Candles (1984); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: When Harry Met Sally (1989); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?: Special Edition (1988); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Kids (1995); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ladyhawke (1985); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Sopranos: Season 3 (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Apocalypse Now (1979); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Terminator (1984); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Scarface: 20th Anniversary Edition (1983); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Breakfast Club (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The City of Lost Children (1995); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Princess Bride (1987); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Untouchables (1987); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Stand by Me (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Blood Simple (1984); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Road Warrior (1981); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Evil Dead (1982); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Decalogue (1987); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Akira (1988); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Back to the Future (1985); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Castle in the Sky (1986); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Legend: The Director's Cut (1986); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Audition (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Shining (1980); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Eraserhead (1977); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Godfather (1972); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Grave of the Fireflies (1988); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Labyrinth (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Blade Runner (1982); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Pretty in Pink (1986); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: sex (1989); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Karate Kid (1984); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Say Anything (1989); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Chungking Express (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Storytelling (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0 | netflix |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: Lotus Villa Boutique Hotel; City: Luang Prabang Luang Prabang Province; Review: Stayed in a Lotus room, very comfortable with a nice balcony. Staff and location are fantistic; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Kool Hotel; City: Siem Reap Siem Reap Province; Review: Really great place to stay in Siem Reap, good facilities and not too big. The staff went out of their way to help us.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: IRoom; City: Bruges West Flanders Province; Review: Our stay at iRoom was perfect. Great room, comfortable bed, gorgeous bathroom with a shower to die for, delicious breakfast and a friendly, knowledgeable, helpful and obliging hostess.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Pension Galerie; City: Berlin; Review: The Pension Gallerie is a bit of an ugly duckling on the outside, but on the inside it transforms into a swan. We had a lovely, large and comfortable room across the landing from the communal area of the pension. It was very quiet and we had everything we needed ... except a hairdryer, but I'm sure this could have been provided if I had asked. Angelika and Agnes provided plenty of assistance with directions on getting around Berlin. A beautifully presented and delicious breakfast buffet was laid out each morning - even a 'breakfast to go' on our last morning when we had to leave early to catch our flight to Copenhagen. Don't be put off by Google street view - you'll be missing out on some of the best and most affordable accommodation in Berlin.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Pension am Jakobsplatz; City: Munich Upper Bavaria Bavaria; Review: The Pension am Jacobplatz provides good value, comfortable accommodation conveniently located in Central Munich. Nothing is too much trouble for friendly Hosts Christoph and Marko. From meeting guests arriving ahead of schedule (us) and rescuing guests locked in their room (not us) to mailing items left behind (us again!) Christoph quickly came to the rescue. The pension is within easy walking distance of all the main sites and we would not hesitate to stay there again should we be in Munich.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hotel Korpikartano; City: Inari Lapland; Review: This family owned and run hotel inside the Arctic Circle on the shore of Lake Menesjärvi provided us with the perfect base for aurora watching. The hotel was warm and cosy and provided us with three hearty meals each day. Our hosts Anne and Timo were friendly and informative and our guide Toni was endlessly patient, helping us with our winter clothing and equipment and leading us on ice fishing, snowmobiling and aurora watching outings. As an added bonus from our perspective, Toni was also able to provide us with lots of useful tips about aurora photography. Another guide, Lynda, did a great job of teaching us how to cross-country ski ... in the dark. The pristine silence of the location is simply outstanding. It is the perfect place to get away from it all and reconnect with nature. And we saw the Aurora Borealis twice during our seven day stay!! Highly recommended.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hotel Silberstein; City: Puerto Ayora Santa Cruz Galapagos Islands; Review: The hotel provided clean basic rooms in a garden/poolside setting that was very restful. The pool provided some welcome respite from the heat and humidity. Situated fairly centrally it was a reasonably easy walk to the Charles Darwin Research Centre or to shops and restaurants.; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: The Carriage House Inn; City: Huddersfield West Yorkshire England; Review: We stayed for 4 nights whilst visiting family and taking in the breathtaking scenery. Great location for walking, The room we had was larger than expected and great value for money. Very comfortable bed, spotlessly clean room and bathroom. We ate in the conservatory with great views over the moors and in the restaurant as well.The food served was excellent and the filling breakfast set us up for the day. Hopefully we will visit the area again for a short break and this is where we will definitely stay. Thanks to Bev and Simon and all the friendly staff for making our break so enjoyable.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Best Western Huddersfield Pennine Manor Hotel; City: Huddersfield West Yorkshire England; Review: Booked a one night stay whilst visiting family in the area.Decided to dine at the hotel. There was a wedding function ongoing and despite the staff being very busy they managed to give us personal attention. The staff apologised for the fact we could not dine in the restaurant and the noise which actually did not bother us at all, but they found us a nice table in the bar area and gave us a complimentary bottle of wine. All the staff at the hotel could not do enough for us, probably the best service in any hotel we have stayed at in the UK. The food was first class, both the evening meal and the breakfast which catered for every choice.My wife now wants a bed and pillows like the one in our room, so comfortable, a really good nights sleep. And of course, the location, spectacular views. We have previously stayed at other hotels in the area but Pennine Manor is now our first choice. Looking forward to returning soon.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The New Inn; City: Marsden Huddersfield West Yorkshire England; Review: Very well located pub for access to Marsden and the surrounding beautiful scenery. Very welcoming and friendly staff. Dined both evenings we stayed and first class food, in cosy surroundings. Breakfast very much standard, extra toast and beverages offered throughout by friendly owner. Spacious room with TV/DVD and good range tea / coffee / hot chocolate. But rather basic furniture. Large bathroom with excellent over bath shower. Main A62 road location so light sleepers may find it noisy if staying in a room fronting the road. The room would benefit from removal of carpet in the bathroom (not a fan of this) and double glazing due to the location, to eliminate road noise and conserve heat, rather than the rattling sash windows. Overall a very enjoyable stay and we would certainly book again when in the area.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Best Western Huddersfield Pennine Manor Hotel; City: Huddersfield West Yorkshire England; Review: Once again whilst visiting family stayed at Pennine Manor. And, why not? Every time has never disappointed. The location is superb with awesome views. All the staff especially the General Manager, Mandy are so welcoming. Very comfy beds and good facilities in each room. On this occasion we dined there and had an excellent meal, the slow braised beef was superb. Breakfast excellent as usual. Would not hesitate to book again when in the area and have stayed at a few different hotels/ B and B (usually when Pennine is full when weddings are on, which are very popular) In my opinion It is the best in the locality and great value for money.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Pelagos Bay Hotel; City: Skala Cephalonia Ionian Islands; Review: Just wanted a relaxing week away and that's what we had. Great location, 20 minutes walk to Skala with 2 excellent tavernas very close by. All the rooms have a great sea view. There is a small cove across the road great for snorkelling and a nice stretch of beach nearby below the Nautilus taverna, 5 euros for the day for sun bed hire. The pool and grounds were immaculately kept and the good sized rooms very well serviced 6 days a week. The staff are very welcoming and friendly. We were looking forward to the BBQ and Greek night but it was cancelled as not enough guests put their names down. Although it may appear to be apartment based it is classed as a B and B hotel, so don't expect to do any self catering there are no facilities for cooking in the rooms. The food served in the bar is good but expensive compared to other places and the drinks are quite expensive as well. Hotel Pelagos Bay is a great place to stay for couples and families.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Green Grove Country House; City: Bell Busk Yorkshire Dales National Park North Yorkshire Eng; Review: Chose this B & B for a 3 day break and what a great choice it turned out to be. The owners Keith and Zoe were so friendly and helpful and gave us tea , coffee and homemade cakes on arrival. The accommodation is to the highest standard. We stayed in the Littondale room with a fantastic 4 poster bed and an extremely comfortable mattress. A great nights sleep. This room also has a huge walk in shower, the best we have ever experienced. Lovely views from the windows over the river. Totally delicious breakfast kept us going all day whilst walking in the Malham area.Great base for exploring the local area. First visit but will definitely return. Thanks to Keith and Zoe for making our stay so memorable.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with movies/shows as follows:
Title: Enemy of the State (1998); Genres: Action, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Bug's Life, A (1998); Genres: Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Waking Ned Devine (a.k.a. Waking Ned) (1998); Genres: Comedy; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Simple Plan, A (1998); Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Payback (1999); Genres: Action, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Blast from the Past (1999); Genres: Comedy, Romance; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Pleasantville (1998); Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Prince of Egypt, The (1998); Genres: Animation, Musical; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Thin Red Line, The (1998); Genres: Action, Drama, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Babe: Pig in the City (1998); Genres: Adventure, Children, Drama; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Fugitive, The (1993); Genres: Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Silence of the Lambs, The (1991); Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Old Man and the Sea, The (1958); Genres: Adventure, Drama; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Saving Private Ryan (1998); Genres: Action, Drama, War; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: It Happened One Night (1934); Genres: Comedy, Romance; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ben-Hur (1959); Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: There's Something About Mary (1998); Genres: Comedy, Romance; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Roman Holiday (1953); Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Usual Suspects, The (1995); Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: North by Northwest (1959); Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Braveheart (1995); Genres: Action, Drama, War; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Babe (1995); Genres: Children, Drama; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Casablanca (1942); Genres: Drama, Romance; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Forrest Gump (1994); Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Stripes (1981); Genres: Comedy, War; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Borrowers, The (1997); Genres: Adventure, Children, Comedy, Fantasy; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: About Last Night... (1986); Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Boot, Das (Boat, The) (1981); Genres: Action, Drama, War; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Cocoon (1985); Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hunt for Red October, The (1990); Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Titanic (1997); Genres: Drama, Romance; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Jurassic Park (1993); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Man in the Iron Mask, The (1998); Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Clear and Present Danger (1994); Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Speed (1994); Genres: Action, Romance, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Rock, The (1996); Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Eraser (1996); Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Breakdown (1997); Genres: Action, Thriller; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) (1997); Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hilary and Jackie (1998); Genres: Drama; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Elizabeth (1998); Genres: Drama; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Siege, The (1998); Genres: Action, Thriller; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Alien (1979); Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Poltergeist (1982); Genres: Horror, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Die Hard (1988); Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Diva (1981); Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Cape Fear (1962); Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: L.A. Confidential (1997); Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fargo (1996); Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Femme Nikita, La (Nikita) (1990); Genres: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Red Rock West (1992); Genres: Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Terminator, The (1984); Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Léon: The Professional (a.k.a. The Professional) (Léon) (1994); Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Vertigo (1958); Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Charade (1963); Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: To Catch a Thief (1955); Genres: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Air Force One (1997); Genres: Action, Thriller; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Aliens (1986); Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Everest (1998); Genres: Documentary, IMAX; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977); Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Postman, The (Postino, Il) (1994); Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | movielens |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Philips 16x 4.7GB 120-Min DVD-R Media 50-Pack; Brand: Philips; Review: Pretty Awesome!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Linksys E1200 Wi-Fi Wireless Router with Linksys Connect Including Parental Controls (Certified Refurbished); Brand: Linksys; Review: Saw some bad reviews, bought it anyways. I love it, works great. Love the setup software.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: JBL Clip Portable Bluetooth Speaker With Mic, Red; Brand: JBL; Review: Big sound, small package.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: JBL J22i High-Performance In-Ear Headphones with Microphone - Black; Brand: JBL; Review: Excellent value.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sabrent Ultra Slim USB 2.0 to 2.5-Inch SATA External Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure [Black] (EC-UK25); Brand: Sabrent; Review: Great product. My only gripe is with the USB cable, kind of a hassle. Came with a Y-Split cable, very unnecessary. I ordered a regular USB Male-to-Male cable, does not take mini nor micro USB.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: MoKo LG G Pad F 8.0 / G Pad II 8.0 Case, Lightweight Smart Slim Shell Stand Cover; Brand: MoKo; Review: This is a very nice, my friend paid $50 for the exact one. Only difference is his said Samsung on it.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: AKG Y23U Headphones, Earbuds, High Definition, in-ear, Noise Isolating, Heavy Deep Bass Universal in-line remote/microphone for answering calls iPhone,; Brand: AKG; Review: Excellent value.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mounting Dream TV Wall Mounts Tilting Bracket for 26-55 Inch; Brand: Mounting Dream; Review: I must admit I was a bit concerned when the package felt light. But make no mistake, this will hold about 700 pounds it seems like.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: MAXROCK (TM) Tangle-free Stereo Metal Headphones with Microphone In-ear Noise Isolating Headsets (Gray); Brand: MAXROCK; Review: The flat wires are a little thin, but if you can get past that you will love these. They sound great, fit great in your ear, work fantastic. I use them on my playstation 4.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Red Touch Cover for Microsoft Surface; Brand: Microsoft; Review: Can't believe the price and the quality.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mpow Ground Loop Noise Isolator for Car Audio/Home Stereo System with 3.5mm Audio Cable (Black); Brand: Mpow; Review: Seller replaced defective item; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: License Plate Backup; Brand: Esky; Review: Many people have this experienced discoloration after a few months. My colors were off right out of the box. Doesnt really bother me, doesnt affect the purpose.; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | amazon_Electronics |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: Cross Fire (Alex Cross); Author: Visit Amazon's James Patterson Page; Review: I think the clock has run out on James Patterson and his Alex Cross line, especially with Patterson electing to hawk this book on TV!! Even Kyle Craig has lost his edge--time to hang it up on this collection.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Night Watch (An Alexandra Cooper Novel); Author: Visit Amazon's Linda Fairstein Page; Review: Just not a good book from Ms Fairstein---many of hers have been excellent but this one is just TOO PRETENTIOUS with its foreign localities!! Go back to your NYC haunts--; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Art 2013 Gallery Calendar; Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Review: Every year I look forward to setting up and starting to use this beautiful Met Museum calendar---it never disappoints and 2013 is no exception!! Great selection and vivid colors make the days just fly by.....; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Field of Prey; Author: Visit Amazon's John Sandford Page; Review: AH, SANDFORD brings back the good old self-involved, arrogant, crude LUCAS with very little of his dull domestic entanglements which slowed down recent books. AND he throws in a mad man with an alter ego to boot!! Ain't life sweet when you have a book like this waiting for you on your bedside table.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Field Of Prey (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic); Author: Visit Amazon's John Sandford Page; Review: AH, SANDFORD brings back the good old self-involved, arrogant, crude LUCAS with very little of his dull domestic entanglements which slowed down recent books. AND he throws in a mad man with an alter ego to boot!! Ain't life sweet when you have a book like this waiting for you on your bedside table.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Art 2015 Gallery Calendar; Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Review: FANTASTIC stand up 2015 calendar and waiting until JAN 1 allowed for half-off discount which is the perfect price point!!; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Gathering Prey (A Prey Novel); Author: Visit Amazon's John Sandford Page; Review: So disappointed in this latest about my FAV Lucas Davenport. Seemed to be a travelogue of the UP and surrounding areas rather than a detective thriller featuring a great character in Davenport.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Dark Corners; Author: Visit Amazon's Ruth Rendell Page; Review: Certainly not her best book ever but a pretty satisfying last effort for an author who will be sorely missed!!; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Golden Prey (A Prey Novel); Author: Visit Amazon's John Sandford Page; Review: Am not interested in LUCAS outside Minnesota--so ordinary to similar storylines!!! Had to put down this offering and wait for next better book in LUCAS series!!!; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Burial Hour (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel); Author: Visit Amazon's Jeffery Deaver Page; Review: Too meandering with too much Italian detail-very disappointed; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Since We Fell CD: A Novel; Author: Visit Amazon's Dennis Lehane Page; Review: Good for Lehane for trying out a narrative in a female voice but so many improbabilities....not in any way as compelling as earlier works!; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The People vs. Alex Cross; Author: Visit Amazon's James Patterson Page; Review: Did not hold my interest at alltoo much info on dark web not enough on Alex & family!!; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: HP Photosmart A636 Compact Photo Printer; Brand: Hewlett Packard; Review: This product was described very well in several reviews. It is compact enough to travel well. Makes nice 5x7's. Has some fun features to edit photos & add borders. Delivery was about one week.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Wilson Electronics 12-inch Dual Band Magnet-Mount Antenna w/ FME Female Connector; Brand: weBoost; Review: Great but you need the WILSON ELECTRONICS 971119 Fme Male to Sma Male Connector to make it work. So I got to wait another 10 days - twice because the first adapter was lost. Why not put the *&#@&%$ adapter in with the antennae?? Dumb. Are they worried about losing the 10 cents it cost to add it to the package?? Works well once it is all together. Original antennae - no so much. This should be the standard antennae in the first place. Why ship a marginal product??? Bought for the Wilson Sleek Booster.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Wilson Electronics Connector N-Female to FME-Female; Brand: weBoost; Review: Don't know why it wasn't included in the Antennae upgrade. Antennae is useless without it. Stupid needless delay to make their product work correctly. ARE YOU LISTENING WILSON???? Quick delivery. Product is just as described. I am very satisfied with this purchase and with the vendor. Couldn't be more pleased.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Baoneo Adapter Jack Headphone Aux Audio Earphone Connector Accessories Dongle; Brand: Ambrrhty; Review: Quick delivery. Product is just as described. I am very satisfied with this purchase and with the vendor. Couldn't be more pleased. Highly rated in Cooks Magazine - which is the BEST cooking magazine ever.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mini Mobile USB-Powered Speakers for iPhone iPod Desktop Computers Laptops Netbooks MP3 Player Smartphones Portable CD Players; Brand: BrainyTrade; Review: I really think you need to spend a few extra bucks to get a decent product. That is why highly rated speakers cost so much.; Rating: 1.0/5.0 | amazon_Electronics |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Docooler Molle Tactical Shoulder Strap Bag Pouch Travel Backpack Camera Military Bag (Earth); Brand: Docooler; Review: Lots of room for either my Nikon DSLR or GoPro kit. Exactly what I was looking for. Also lots of handy little pockets and whatnot. Thumbs up, will post an update once I've had a chance to use it.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: NFL Men's Gameday Triblend Vintage T-Shirt; Brand: Junk Food Clothing; Review: So what the picture doesn't tell you is that it also says "The spirit of the bull" in giant letters on the back. The shirt itself was a large and it's tiny on me, and I'm not the biggest dude as I vary between medium and large, depending on the cut of the shirt. Also, the material itself is not the soft, cottony vintage feel I was expecting, it's kinda polyesterish and was kinda sticky. Just not a fan of this one.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Keepfit 3 Silicone Wedding Ring Silicone Wedding Band for Men Rubber Thin Line Stripe No Glue One Piece for Climbing; Brand: Keepfit; Review: So far so good. I love the price and variety of colors and styles.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Profile Designs Air Stryke; Brand: Profile Designs; Review: I've had other Profile Designs before with a slightly different design, but just couldn't get into them. I'm in love with the design on this for the way I ride. I've already taken them on 30+ mile gravel rides and 20+ mile road rides and love them. Have not really had to adjust them too much, and seemed perfect out of the box. It's great to have that option to stretch out a bit, especially when you have a solid mile or 2 of downhill or flat terrain that allows you to relax for a bit. 10/10 would buy again; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Cressi Scuba Diving Snorkeling Freediving Mask Snorkel Set; Brand: Cressi; Review: First off, I saw the deal with the fogging and fixed it with the old spit method, which my only reason for 1 star. I'll try the baby shampoo trick once I get a bottle. The snorkel worked perfectly, and stayed closed as advertised on dives. The flexibility of the mouthpiece was a great feature since it alleviates pushing up on the mask if you change mouth or snorkel position. I also liked the clip feature on the snorkel which made mounting easy-peasy. While it did have a wide field of view, I can definitely see where other models might have a bit of an advantage but it still works. Would definitely buy again or recommend.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Churchill Makapuu Pro Bodyboard Swim Fins With Neoprene Insert And Tethers Included; Brand: Churchill; Review: I had the old school versions of these for years (the old yellow/blue guys) and they were great for bodyboarding and body surfing. Also great for just regular back-up swim fins. The neoprene collars on the straps are a nice touch and update from the old school, but the neoprene in the fins wasn't enough for me so there was some foot pain. I would recommend thinner booties or something similar to help with the padding. Also, I was hoping the fin leashes had come with velcro, which is the norm with this sort of technology, so that may be another purchase to keep these on your feet in the ocean, while dealing with waves. The fins are a bit stiff out of the box, but over time it may not be as bad as when you first get them, so be ready to have some break-in time. The fins work best when completely in the water, and will give you a solid workout.; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | amazon_Sports_and_Outdoors |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Pilot Automotive CC-6223 Camouflage ATV Cover, Large; Brand: Pilot; Review: Great cover for my sons 50cc. It's big on this particular ate, but the smallest I could find for a good price. It's heavy material and stitched well.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: SHURFLO 94-237-00 Series 2088 Check Valve Kit; Brand: SHURFLO; Review: My water pump in the coach would trip about every 15-20 minutes, for just a second or 2. I searched and searched for leaks without success (that's a good thing.) The check valve was next on my list to replace. So far it has solved the intermittent "tripping" of the water pump. The kit was what I expect from Shurflo. Package was well sealed and had clear, simple to read and visualize instructions. I took me about 5 minutes to replace the valve. So far so good. I might buy a second kit just to have on hand for the future.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Pro Series 1040100 Solo Black 48" x 32" Hitch Mounted Cargo Carrier; Brand: Pro Series; Review: The item itself it built very well, with heavy gauge metal on the outside edge. I noticed on the left side as it is viewed from looking at the hitch, there is a seam in the metal that is welded together. This may become a weak spot over time. They could have used a full length piece of metal there instead. The mesh floor is a bit flimsy, but will work my my intended use. The package came with only 4 washers, not the 6 reqired. A few bolts were difficult to insert, but a hammer and vice grip fixed that. I had to put the vice grip on the top of the bolt and tighten the nut underneath until it grabbed.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Battery Tender 021-0123 Battery Tender Junior 12V, 0.75A Battery Charger; Brand: Battery Tender; Review: Works great to keep my ATV batteries charged.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sedeta 50'x1/4" Strong Durable Dyneema Synthetic Winch Rope 6000LBS Yellow Fastness For ATV UTV KFI Vehicle Car Motorcycle; Brand: Sedeta; Review: Exactly like the factory cord plus it has a metal piece at the end and also black sheath. I'm excited to use it this summer while camping.; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | amazon_Automotive |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Acorn Unisex Slipper Sock; Brand: Acorn; Review: This review and scoring is more about the effects of cotton next to the skin than the Acorn Slipper Sock. I love these and had some as a kid. That pair went somewhere without me, probably hanging out with lonely socks and pen caps. I recently decided to buy another pair and chose the COTTON ones. Unfortunately for the same reason you don't wear cotton socks, underwear, and t-shirts while hiking. The cotton absorbs the moisture from your skin and environment and creates a nice chilling effect(evaporation) around your tootsies. Not a good effect for slippers, imho. Do not buy the cotton unless you will be wearing socks as well as the slippers. OR Buy the wool versions if you're going barefoot.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: HDE Expandable Handbag Insert Organizer Liner for Inside Purse Tote; Brand: HDE; Review: Wife loves it, Swaps bags with wild abandon.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Levi's Men's 559 Relaxed Straight Fit Jean; Brand: ; Review: Rise seems to have increased so the crotch is too low.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: var aPageStart = (new Date()).getTime(); var ue_t0=ue_t0||+new Date(); window.ue_ihb = (window.ue_ihb || window.ueinit || 0) + 1; if (window.ue_ihb; Brand: ; Review: Rise seems to have increased so the crotch is too low.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Levi's Men's 559 Relaxed Straight Fit Jean; Brand: ; Review: Rise seems to have increased so the crotch is too low.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: SlideBelts Men's Leather Ratchet Belt; Brand: ; Review: Very loud ratchet. The leather is quite average.; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: Love Me Forever; Author: Visit Amazon's Johanna Lindsey Page; Review: I have all Of her Malory novels but one and I thought this one was wonderful just like the others. Derek and Kelsey have a great chemistry just like Tony and James stories. I just loved it. I can't wait when JL comes out with Jeremy's story. And I hope it's soon. keep up the good work JL!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Tender Rebel; Author: Visit Amazon's Johanna Lindsey Page; Review: As usual I couldn't put this book down I kept reading and reading. I just love her Malory series. And Tony makes me wish that there was real live men like him on this earth. haha! I so loved the way he conquered Rosyln. Oh to be persued like that! ahhhh ! oh well I think everyone should read it and the rest of the Malory series. Way to go JL!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Magic of You (Malory Novels); Author: Visit Amazon's Johanna Lindsey Page; Review: It was a classic Malory novel. It had all the excitement you can expect from her novels. I loved Amy's refusel to except defeat in getting Warren. I couldn't put it down. Although I have to admit James and Tony's stories are my faves. That's why I give it four stars instead of five. This one was good! Way to go JL! Also I can't wait till she comes out with Jeremy's and Jack's stories. Keep them coming.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Gentle Rogue (Malory-Anderson Family); Author: Visit Amazon's Johanna Lindsey Page; Review: I loved this book ! It was the first JL book I had read and I think it's her best one . I fell in love with James Malory of course! And the chemistry between him and Georgie was great. And it was actually funny in parts throughout the book and made me laugh. All around I loved it and I read it again and again. I can't wait for Jeremy to get his own story!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Love Only Once: A Malory Novel; Author: Visit Amazon's Johanna Lindsey Page; Review: As I've come to expect JL's Malory novels I can't put down. I love the way Nick and Reggie argue up till the end and how she was determained to have him. And how James and Tony are always picking on him. It made me laugh so many times. I loved it .Keep up the good work JL. I recommend this book and all the other Malory novels, you won't be dissapointed.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Lifting Lab; Brand: Lifting Lab; Review: I have 9" circumference wrists and the strap is too short to give me a secure bite on the velcro.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Uncle Mike's Off-Duty and Concealment Pro-Pak Nylon Horizontal Shoulder Holster; Brand: Uncle Mike's Law Enforcement; Review: It works; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Augusta Sportswear Unisex-Adult Nylon Coach's Jacket/Lined; Brand: Augusta Sportswear; Review: Who would have thought this could be made so cheap. Trust me, if you've ever had this kind of jacket before in the old days, this one will get a grade of "D". If you've never had this kind of jacket before you won't know the difference.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Grip Power Pads Heavy Duty PRO Metal Lifting Steel Hooks Best Power Weightlifting Set of 2 Premium Thick Padded Workout; Brand: Grip Power Pads; Review: These work very well, me happy.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: CVLIFE 2.5-10x40e Red & Green Illuminated Scope with 20mm & 11mm Mount; Brand: CVLIFE; Review: reticles are slanted slightly and there is no provision to straighten out. Can not rotate the scope body; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Rothco Genuine British Commando Knife with Leg Sheath; Brand: Rothco; Review: Tested on an oil drum and a skull and performs flawlessly.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: FUJI Single Weave Judo GI; Brand: Fuji; Review: It fits like a glove but that's a bad thing when it's supposed to be baggy. I suppose I can lose weight. It's actually a good thing because you can't grab onto any lose material, I suppose I shouldn't complain.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Pinty 2.5-10x40 AOEG Red Green Illuminated Mil-dot Tactical Rifle Scope with Red Laser Combo - Green Lens Color; Brand: Pinty; Review: Pinty is the same as CV Life so be advised. The LASERS work, then don't work. Not to be dependent on. The CV Life scope of exact same model is less than $40 so this one is a total ripoff. This should not be mounted on any serious weapon. Save up and get an ACOG or something like that. Don't cheap out unless it's appropriate.; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | amazon_Sports_and_Outdoors |
Given the interaction history of a user with news articles as follows:
Title: Why Professional Chefs Refuse to Cook with Truffle Oil; Abstract: Truffles are some of the priciest ingredients you can buy so how is it that they're so common on restaurant menus these days?; Category: foodanddrink
Title: American Airlines Has an "Early Depletion of the Burger Inventory"; Abstract: Translation? The airline hamburgers are so good they ran out.; Category: travel
Title: Photos: If you give an animal a pumpkin ...; Abstract: If you give an animal a pumpkin...; Category: news
Title: Frustrated with season so far, Melvin Gordon appears to regret his holdout; Abstract: The Los Angeles Chargers rusher seems to have wished he attended training camp after all.; Category: sports
Title: An Awkward Moment As Meghan Markle Met A Curtsy Attempt With An American Greeting; Abstract: Customs vary by country and a hug was lost in translation when Meghan Markle took the stage. Buzz60's Keri Lumm reports.; Category: lifestyle
Title: What 25 dogs were bred for; Abstract: Stacker looks at 25 dogs and what they were bred for. Some breeds are thousands of years old, while others were just recently recognized by the American Kennel Club.; Category: lifestyle
Title: A part of Windsor Castle that's been closed to the public for over 150 years just reopened and it's been completely revamped. Take a peek inside.; Abstract: Windsor Castle has been a royal residence for over 900 years. The Inner Hall is in a part of the castle that dates back to the mid-14th century.; Category: lifestyle
Title: Felicity Huffman Smiles as She Begins Community Service Following Prison Release; Abstract: The 56-year-old actress was released from prison last month.; Category: news
Title: 4 Bold Predictions for Alabama vs. LSU Heavyweight SEC Matchup; Abstract: Saturday will provide us the biggest matchup of the 2019 college football season so far when Joe Burrow and No. 2 LSU travel to Tuscaloosa to lock horns with Tua Tagovailoa, Nick Saban, and No. 3 Alabama. Given how potent these teams are on both sides of the ball, this game could turn into a Burrow-Tua shootout just as easily as it could a 14-7 slugfest like the Bama-LSU games of yesteryear. While these matchups rarely go according to plan,...; Category: sports
Title: State Trooper Stops Banana Car Driver, Gives Him $20 Instead of a Ticket; Abstract: Is it a crime to be this ridiculous? Not in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where a 1993 Ford F-150 4x4 was turned into . . . this.; Category: autos
Title: Husband, 106, and wife, 105, are named world's oldest living couple; Abstract: John Henderson joked that that secret to their longevity could be never having kids.; Category: lifestyle | mind |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: Hyatt Place Pittsburgh North Shore; City: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania; Review: A great new Hyatt walking distance from PNC Park and Heinz field. The room was large, well appointed and very clean. The staff was professional and helpful. Some neat modern amenities like the lights automatically going off when you exit the room. And, a decent morning breakfast was included. Overall a good experience.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: COMO The Halkin London; City: London England; Review: This hotel was perfect for our Thanksgiving long weekend getaway! The room was spacious, tastefully decorated with a huge marble bathroom featuring a giant tub and a separate shower, and immaculately clean! The staff was professional, courteous and very helpful (THE MAID EVEN NEATLY FOLDED UP A T-SHIRT WE LEFT OUT ONE DAY). The hotel sits on a quiet street (Halkin St.) in the upscale residential area. Street noise was non-existent in our 4th floor room. The hotel is just about 2 blocks from the Hyde Park Corner tube stop and a nice walk from Knightsbridge (Harrods). We loved this hotel and will definitely be going back!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Roslyn Hotel; City: Roslyn Long Island New York; Review: This used to be a fantastic little boutique hotel in the historic village of Roslyn. Unfortunately, the property has not been maintained. We booked a block of rooms for a family event and our guests reported a number of serious lapses in service. The overall sense from our guests was that the staff was completely disinterested.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Boston Marriott Long Wharf; City: Boston Massachusetts; Review: Stayed for 2 nights and 3 days over President's weekend and could not have been happier with this hotel. The staff was courteous, professional and very helpful. The hotel was clean, well maintained and comfortable. Our room was spacious for a city hotel, clean and comfortable. The hotel was crowded due to the holiday weekend with lots of families and the hallways and common areas (including the nice little pool) were energetic and a bit loud. The location was great - easy access to many fun activities for the family (a few blocks to the North End, across the street to Quincy Market/Fanuiel Hall, and 100 yards from the New England Aquarium). Also, the breakfast buffet was terrific! Our only complaint was the cost of parking - $46 per night (this is pricey even for an urban center). We would definitely reccomend this hotel to other travelling to Boston.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Culver Hotel; City: Culver City California; Review: This lovingly restored/maintained hotel from a bygone era was a terrific base of operations for a family wedding in LA. What sets the place apart is the staff - they were extremely professional, helpful and friendly. The rooms are nicely appointed and not too small for such an old property. There is self park and valet available for cars and the neighborhood is wonderful with many alternative restaurants, shops and bars within walking distance. I would definitely stay at this hotel again!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Costa Linda Beach Resort; City: Palm Eagle Beach Aruba; Review: The Costa Linda is a great timeshare resort in the quieter low rise section of the Island. Our 2 bedroom unit was very clean, spacious and comfortable. There was maid service every day except Sunday at no extra charge (a rarity for timeshare properties). The staff was friendly and helpful and the poolside/beach restaurant and bar was decent. The beach here is the best - crystal blue waters, not crowded, no boats, a large swim area and plenty of chickie huts for shade.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Pocono Mountain Villas; City: East Stroudsburg Pocono Mountains Region Pennsylvania; Review: We rented a 2 bedroom Fairway Villa for a family ski weekend. The place was filthy, much of the furniture was torn and/or broken, curtains were broken and the carpet was damp and dirty. There were no sheets for the foldout couch beds and not a single blanket in the unit upon arrival (we needed to call housekeeping to have them delivered). On top of that, we found balled-up (presumably dirty) sheets on one of the dressers. This was one of the worst maintained properties we have ever stayed at. I would avoid it if possible.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Chicago Marriott Suites Deerfield; City: Deerfield Lake County Illinois; Review: My wife and I spent a long weekend at this all-suite hotel just north of Chicago! The hotel suites are large, tastefully furnished and very clean. The staff is friendly and helpful. The hotel also does an excellent breakfast buffet each morning to get your day started and provides complimentary coffee and tea to go in the lobby. Their is an indoor pool which we did not use, and an outdoor pool which was not open during our visit.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hampton Inn West Palm Beach Lake Worth Turnpike; City: Lake Worth Florida; Review: A decent hotel in the Lake Worth/Wellington area. This Hampton Inn is well run - clean with a friendly staff. The location is a bit sketchy, behind a gas station Seven11 and just off the FL Turnpike. The rooms are spacious, nicely furnished and, most importantly, clean.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hamilton Hotel Washington DC; City: Washington DC District of Columbia; Review: Spent Thanksgiving weekend with the family at this hotel. The rooms were spacious and nicely furnished and appointed. The location was terrific - in the heart of downtown and walking distance to most of the major museums, monuments and major attractions. The staff was friendly and professional. And there was a nice little Starbucks in the lobby. This is an older hotel but it is nicely maintained.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Palm Beach Waterfront Suites; City: Palm Beach Florida; Review: We stayed in a 2 bedroom unit as an RCI trade for a week. The unit was spacious, with a full kitchen, dining room, living room and 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. The unit had a large balcony overlooking the intercoastal. The unit was clean, but the furniture, linens, pillows and towels were pretty old and could've used refreshing. No maid service was available and the office had limited hours. Maid service was available for a fee, but the maid was out sick during our week. So instead, the staff did a complimentary towel change and light cleaning for us. The staff was friendly, but this is not a "resort" - it's basically a small apartment complex with a tiny pool and laundry room. We had to leave the property to do everything which is not what I think of when I see/hear the word "resort". Laundry was free, but not in the units. There were 2 washers and 2 dryers for the entire property, and they were not available 2 days of the week. The public beach is across the street which is a plus.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Hilton Garden Inn Bozeman; City: Bozeman Montana; Review: Clean and well maintained property with a very friendly staff. They do a nice breakfast too. A bit far from downtown Bozeman, but there is a hotel shuttle (limited) and a free bus service (also limited).; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lawai Beach Resort; City: Poipu Kauai Hawaii; Review: We spent a week in a two bedroom unit over Xmas break at this terrific timeshare property. The unit was spacious, comfortably furnished and very, very clean. We had a beautiful view of the beach from our huge lanai. No air conditioning (units do not have a/c) was never an issue due to the constant breeze and the fans provided in the units. 3 great pools on property (1 designated quiet/adults) and Lawai Beach right across the street. We will definitely return to this reaort.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Marriott s Grande Vista; City: Orlando Florida; Review: This is a large and nicely maintained Marriott Vacation property down the street from Sea World. We had a 2 bedroom unit with a full kitchen and a small kitchenette. The room was clean, nicely decorated and the beds/sheets were terrific. Also, for a timeshare property it was really nice that they provided maid service each day like a full-service hotel and free wifi. Several pools on property and many activities to choose from. The resort is about 20 - 25 minutes from Disney and Universal.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fairfield Inn Suites Ithaca; City: Ithaca Finger Lakes New York; Review: A nice, clean and well maintained property just a few minutes from Cornell. Friendly staff and a nice, spacious room and bathroom (with decent water pressure). A decent breakfast spread and plenty of parking. Would stay again.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Great Wolf Lodge; City: Scotrun Pocono Mountains Region Pennsylvania; Review: The kids (of all ages) loved this place. The indoor water park was a big hit with the kids, as was magic quest. The room was spacious and comfortable - we had the basic family suite and it was fine for our family of five - two queen beds and a pullout sofa. The staff is friendly and helpful. But, all this family fun comes at a pretty steep cost.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort Spa; City: Rancho Mirage Greater Palm Springs California; Review: This sprawling resort property in between Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert oozes old-school desert charm. They have several pools, a gold course and spa on premises. The rooms are spacious, comfortable and nicely decorated. The property is quite old, but well maintained and clean. Staff was friendly and accommodating. Free wifi. The walls are quite thin - our neighbors were very loud. Beware of the $35/day resort fee.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Chicago Marriott Suites Deerfield; City: Deerfield Lake County Illinois; Review: This all suite hotel tucked in a office park is really nice. The rooms (all suites) are huge, nicely furnished and clean. The staff could not be friendlier and more professional. The breakfast is great too. The property is a bit old, but nicely maintained and the location is good for a stay in the Northern suburbs of Chicago with close access to the toll road.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Holiday Inn Express Suites Ann Arbor West; City: Ann Arbor Michigan; Review: This property is well maintained and well managed. The staff was friendly and helpful and the room was clean, well furnished and spacious. If you are visiting the University of Michigan and do not want to be on campus (It's a 10-15 minute drive), this is am excellent choice.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hampton Inn Ithaca; City: Ithaca Finger Lakes New York; Review: Stayed 1 night while visiting Cornell University. The hotel is clean and the rooms are spacious and comfortably furnished. Front desk staff was friendly and professional. Exactly what you expect from a Hampton Inn. Parking lot is tight.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Grand Hotel Adriatico; City: Florence Tuscany; Review: This is a pretty basic hotel in need of an update. The rooms are spacious and clean, but a bit dated. Staff is friendly and the hotel is really clean. Breakfast is ok, but plentiful. The hotel is located about a 10-15 minute walk to the main streets/sites of Florence. We would give this hotel a 3.5.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Pulitzer Amsterdam; City: Amsterdam North Holland Province; Review: The Pulitzer is a charming boutique hotel in the nice canal district. Our room was large and comfortable with a spacious and nice bathroom. The staff was friendly and professional. The hotel is walking distance to the Ann Frank House, the Red Light District and Dam Square. Pricey, but we'll worth it! Highly recommend.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Loews New Orleans Hotel; City: New Orleans Louisiana; Review: This a lovely hotel close to the action! Spacious, comfortable and nicely appointed rooms. Close (but not too close) to the French Quarter. Friendly and professional staff. We would definitely stay here again.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hampton Inn Suites Syracuse Dewitt; City: Syracuse Finger Lakes New York; Review: Clean, nice sized, nicely furnished rooms - a standard Hampton Inn. The location was convenient to the highway and Syracuse University (about a 10 min. drive), but the area was a bit industrial and run down. The room and common areas were clean, the staff was friendly and the stay was great - would definitely return to this hotel if in the Syracuse area again.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Jedediah Hawkins Inn Restaurant; City: Jamesport North Fork Long Island New York; Review: We spent a lovely weekend in the Cocoa room. The room and hotel was charming, cozy and clean. The staff was friendly and attentive. The room was terrific with a gas fireplace, a nice bathroom and a comfortable bed. The included 3 course breakfast in the solarium was terrific. This was a perfect spot to stay for a weekend of rest and relaxation in the heart of Long Island wine country. Would definitely recommend this place.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: New York Marriott East Side; City: New York City New York; Review: This property is a bit dated, and in need of a freshen-up. The rooms are nice sized for the area, but the beds and bathrooms were quite small. Not quite what we expect from the Marriot brand. On the plus side, the location is great, and the front desk staff was friendly and professional.; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: eTECH Collection 5 Pack of Anti-Glare Screen Protectors for Apple iPhone 5/5S/5C AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon; Brand: E-tech; Review: Good price fast deliver love it; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Metecsmart External Battery Pack Power Bank Compatible with iPhones (White); Brand: Metecsmart; Review: Save my day; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: OtterBox 77-50734 Defender Series Case for iPhone 6 plus - Neon Rose; Brand: OtterBox; Review: It get dirty to fast try to Clean it get worst; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: AILUN Screen Protector Compatible with iPhone 6 Plus/ 6s Plus,[2 Pack],2.5D Edge Tempered Glass,Anti-Scratch,Case Friendly,Siania Retail Package; Brand: AILUN; Review: Really good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: JETech USB Sync and Charging Cable for iPhone 4/4s, iPhone 3G/3GS, iPad 1/2/3, iPod, 3.2 Feet, 2-Pack, White; Brand: JETech; Review: God product deliver to slow thank; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Cell_Phones_and_Accessories |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: Cooking With a Food Processor; Author: General Electric Company.; Review: This book's condition was just as represented by the seller. It came quickly and was in fine condition. It was written in 1978 and is still a great resource for food processor recipies.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Frozen Heat (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition); Author: Visit Amazon's Richard Castle Page; Review: I REALLY ENJOY READING RICHARD CASTLE'S "HEAT" NOVELS. I THINK WHAT IS GO GREAT ABOUT THEM IS THAT I CAN VISUALIZE THE CHARACTERS BECAUSE OF THE TV SHOW. THEY ALL HAVE SUCH CHEMISTRY WITH EACH OTHER. I NEED TO SEE IF HE WROTE OTHER NOVELS WITH DIFFERENT CHARACTERS. I HAVE SEVERAL "HEAT" NOVELS IN PRINT BUT I HAVE BEEN READING THE LAST 2 ON MY KINDLE. . .ALL OF WHICH I BOUGHT ON AMAZON.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Double Take; Author: Visit Amazon's E Kelly Page; Review: THE STORY WAS QUITE GOOD BUT THE "STEAMY" SEX WAS OKAY THE FIRST TIME, BUT SO UNBELIEVABLE WHEN IT WAS REPEATED OVER AND OVER. IT TOOK AWAY FROM THE STORY. IT GOT SO THAT I JUST SKIPPED THOSE PARTS ALTOGETHER. WHAT A SHAME.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Private London. James Patterson & Mark Pearson; Author: Visit Amazon's James Patterson Page; Review: If you like msyteries this is a good one, It does pay to buy the more expensive books in most cases as they are much better written.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Grass Roots; Author: Visit Amazon's Stuart Woods Page; Review: I REALLY LIKE MOST OF WOODS' NOVELS. THIS IS ANOTHER GOOD ONE. ENJOYABLE READING AND KEEPS YOU GUESSING. HIS SETTINGS ARE ALWAYS INFORMATIVE OF THE AREA IN WHICH THEY TAKE PLACE.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: To Tempt the Devil (A Novel of Lord Hawkesbury's Players); Author: Visit Amazon's C. J. Archer Page; Review: SO MANY OF THESE TYPES OF NOVELS ARE FULL OF RIDICULOUS ROMANTIC SITUATIONS. WHILE THIS NOVEL HAS SOME, IT IS NOT AS SAPPY AS MANY. IT IS ALWAYS FUN TO READ ABOUT THE PAST AND PRETEND THAT ALL YOU READ IS TRUE!; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Kill Your Darlings (A Mallory Mystery); Author: Visit Amazon's Max Allan Collins Page; Review: THIS IS AN EASY TO READ MYSTERY. I LIKED THE REFERENCES TO EARLIER WRITERS OF CRIME. IT DID KEEP YOU GUESSING.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Night Prey; Author: Visit Amazon's Carol Davis Luce Page; Review: This one kept me quessing. It was a good mystery with lots of psychological twists. Anyone who likes mysteries would enjoy this one.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Into Thin Air (A Kurt Muller Mystery Book 1) - Kindle edition; Author: Visit Amazon's Thomas Zigal Page; Review: The story was a little complicated because of psychological things going on with the main character. It was, though, one of those books you wanted to keep reading to the end of the chapter. Then a break might be in order. I will let you know what I think about the next one when I get around to reading it.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Silken Prey; Author: Visit Amazon's John Sandford Page; Review: I love all of Sanford's Prey books. This is no exception. It kept me guessing throughout. The ending, however, is unusual for him.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Beautiful Ruins: A Novel; Author: Visit Amazon's Jess Walter Page; Review: This was quite a different book for me. I found it interesting and poignant.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Wounded Prey; Author: Visit Amazon's Sean Lynch Page; Review: Enjoyable mystery. Keeps you wanting to read more before putting down.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Question of Inheritance (A Very English Mystery); Author: Visit Amazon's Elizabeth Edmondson Page; Review: Good story, moves along fast. Towards the end the proof reader must have gotten tired because there are a lot of mistakes which tend to interrupt the flow, for me at any rate. This is the 2nd book I've read by her and I would say she is a decent mystery writer.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Witnesses (BookShots); Author: James Patterson; Review: I have always liked mysteries and this is a pretty good one. It holds your attention right from the start. Good for all ages.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Girl in the Ice: A gripping serial killer thriller (Detective Erika Foster crime thriller novel) (Volume 1); Author: Visit Amazon's Robert Bryndza Page; Review: This was a book that kept you fussing. DCI Foster is a strong character and one you can like. If you like mysteries you'll enjoy this one.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: The Music Tree (Part 2A) (Frances Clark Library for Piano Students); Author: Frances Clark; Review: As a piano teacher, I've used this series for many years in lessons. It is not the easiest method to teach, but I believe the results are well worth the effort. It really prepares students thoroughly.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Dozen a Day Mini Book (A Dozen a Day Series); Author: Visit Amazon's Edna Mae Burnam Page; Review: As a piano teacher, I use and recommend these simple exercises for beginners. They are very helpful for finger dexterity and good building blocks for more complex skills to be taught later.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mysterious Miss Channing (Ranford Series) (Volume 3); Author: Visit Amazon's Nadine Millard Page; Review: I enjoyed this entire series. The books are engaging and well written. They are also clean and have an interesting story line. I enjoyed catching up with the characters of the first two novels to see how their lives progress.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: By the Light of the Silvery Moon; Author: Visit Amazon's Tricia Goyer Page; Review: I love all things Titanic related and this story did not disappoint. It did a good job of mixing historical tidbits with the storyline. It was engaging and well written.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Primer Level: Beginnning Reading (Faber Piano Adventures); Author: Nancy Faber; Review: One of my favorite Christmas books for students. It is easy enough for new beginners and the song selection is good.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Keyboard Musician for the Adult Beginner (Frances Clark Library Supplement); Author: Alfred Music; Review: As a piano teacher, I like Music Tree and have used it my entire career. I gave this book 3 stars because it moves very fast. Only use it if you have some previous musical knowledge. Also, the print is very tiny. My eyesight is good but those notes are very, very hard to read.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Forgotten Way Meditations: The Path of Yeshua for Power and Peace in This Life; Author: Visit Amazon's Ted Dekker Page; Review: Must read...; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: L'Oreal Kids Extra Gentle 2-in-1 Shampoo, Strawberry Smoothie, 9 fl. oz.; Brand: L'Oreal Paris; Review: For some reason this one doesn't work as well as some of the other children's products. I will not be reordering.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Method All-Purpose Cleaner, Cucumber, 28 Ounce; Brand: Method; Review: Smells great and works really well.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Arm & Hammer Baking Soda, 64 Oz; Brand: Arm & Hammer; Review: I have a family member who is bed ridden and wears diapers. When they leak through, I find myself having to wash clothing as well as bedding and trying to get the urine smell out of the clothing. Baking soda takes the smell right out and it can be used in the HE washers. This was a great bargain because it is a bulk item.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Resolve Carpet Spot & Stain Remover, 22 fl oz Bottle, Carpet Cleaner; Brand: Resolve; Review: Very good product. Did wonders for stains on my carpet. I would purchase this product again.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Clorox ToiletWand Disposable Toilet Cleaning System - ToiletWand, Storage Caddy and 6 Disinfecting ToiletWand Refill Heads; Brand: Clorox; Review: I like this product. There really isn't anything to it. It's a stick with a cleaning pad that contains a cleaning agent with Clorox. It's handy and works well.; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | amazon_Prime_Pantry |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Token Products Presta French Valve Caps; Brand: Token; Review: Very happy with my order; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Earth Products Ultimate Outdoor Adjustable Fishing Chair with Adjustable Legs; Brand: Earth Products Store; Review: keep it on my boat, works great; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sub Sports Mens Graduated Compression Long Sleeve Top Vest Running Recovery; Brand: Sub Sports; Review: Not necessarily small more like very snug, but it is supposed to be form fitting. I have a slender build, so if you have any muscles at all you might consider a large. The length including arms are on the long side as I had hoped, I would consider mine a medium long. Very happy with it.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: BootYo! Propane Lantern Base- Fits 14.1 oz and 16.4 oz Bottles; Brand: BootYo!; Review: Helps keep the cylinders upright. Just made the mistake of checking current price, now $2 cheaper.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Shoreline Marine LED Bow Light Combination; Brand: Shoreline Marine; Review: Super bright, low amp draw. Also like the low profile.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: ISLE Airtech Inflatable 10'6" All Around Stand Up Paddle Board (6" Thick) iSUP Package | Includes Adjustable Travel; Brand: ISLE Surf and SUP; Review: Like it more than my kayak, should have bought it sooner; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sport-Brella Versa-Brella All Position Umbrella with Universal Clamp; Brand: Sport-Brella; Review: Works really well, I willl keep it in my boat. Did notice price dropped $5 right after I bought it :(; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ohuhu Camping Stove Stainless Steel Backpacking Stove Potable Wood Burning Stoves for Picnic BBQ Camp Hiking with Grill Grid; Brand: Ohuhu; Review: Works as advertised, used wood, alcohol works as well.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Titanium Utility Cutlery Set Extra Strong Ultra Lightweight (Ti), Healthy; Brand: finessCity; Review: Should have bought more.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: HIGHROCK Lightweight Compact Folding Camp Stove Windscreen; Brand: HIGHROCK; Review: It works; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Under Armour Dual Action Ball Pump, Extra Metal Inflation Needles; Brand: Under Armour; Review: Very good.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Anker Running Belt, Sports Storage Belt for iPhone 7/7 Plus/6 / 6s, iPhone 6 Plus / 6s; Brand: Anker; Review: Nice build, will come in handy.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Under Armour Men's Storm Armour Fleece Pants; Brand: Under Armour; Review: Nice; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Nite Ize Size-1 S-Biner Dual Spring Gate Carabiner, Stainless, 2-Pack; Brand: Nite Ize; Review: Better than average quality.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Kershaw Select Fire (1920); Multifunction Pocketknife with 3.4-Inch 8Cr13MoV Stainless Steel Blade, Black Glass-Filled Nylon Handle, 1/4-Inch Hex; Brand: Kershaw; Review: Might be my ideal EDC; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Chums No Tail Adjustable Eyewear Retainer; Brand: Chums; Review: Use them daily.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: JTENG Outdoor Waterproof Camping Shelter Tent Tarp Footprint Groundsheet Blanket,Beach Picnic Blanket Mat; Brand: JTENG; Review: Will come in handy; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | amazon_Sports_and_Outdoors |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: adidas Samba Classic Leather Soccer Shoe; Brand: ; Review: My son loves these classic shoes for school.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: adidas Samba Classic Leather Soccer Shoe; Brand: ; Review: My son loves these classic shoes for school.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: var aPageStart = (new Date()).getTime(); var ue_t0=ue_t0||+new Date(); window.ue_ihb = (window.ue_ihb || window.ueinit || 0) + 1; if (window.ue_ihb; Brand: ; Review: Great uniform shorts. They are cut on the smaller side.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Dickies Boys' Flex Waist Flat Front Pant; Brand: ; Review: Glad I read the reviews and was expecting the cut to be small. Perfect for my lean boys. Great quality.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: French Toast Boys' Flat Front Double Knee Pant; Brand: ; Review: Great fit, made well.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Presto 02970 Professional SaladShooter Electric Slicer/Shredder, Black; Brand: Presto; Review: Can't live without it; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Chezmoi Collection 8-Piece Black and White Micro Fur Zebra with Giraffe Design Comforter 104-Inch by 92-Inch Bed-in-a-bag; Brand: Chezmoi Collection; Review: Very nice; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Zebra Shoe Art Poster Print by Todd Williams, 11x14 Art Poster Print by Todd Williams, 11x14; Brand: Poster Discount; Review: Great decor for my bedroom; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Gango Home Décor Travel in Style I - mini Fashion Art Print Poster by Todd Williams, 6x18; Brand: Gango Home Decor; Review: Great decor for my bedroom; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Exotic Purse III - mini Fashion Art Print Poster by Todd Williams, 8x10 Art Poster Print by Todd; Brand: Poster Discount; Review: Great decor for my bedroom; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Home_and_Kitchen |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: Grand Hyatt Hong Kong; City: Hong Kong; Review: We enjoyed club service for our 3 night stay. The breakfasts were fantastic as was the view from the lounge. The cocktails and appetizers were amazing. The room was spacious, clean, stocked with everything we may have forgotten/need and they provided a rollaway for our son at no charge. We asked for a harbour view room and they complied - fabulous views. The pool and gym were excellent. The ferry to the Kowloon side was a 5 minute walk. The best part was the staff- helpful, friendly, efficient. We would definitely come back here again and highly recommend it.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Wora Bura Hua Hin Resort Spa; City: Hua Hin Prachuap Khiri Khan Province; Review: We so enjoyed our two day stay. The pool and gardens area was stunning. The pool is huge and overlooks the beach. All rooms overlook the pool. The rooms are spacious with wood floors, beautiful art and furniture. I loved the open concept area of the lobby. This is very Thai (2 floors) and not a large condo style hotel at all. The breakfast was fine. The meals in the beach restaurant were very good but a little pricier. I went to the spa and it was wonderful. Lovely staff and I got a 50% off promotion for going in the morning. The beach disappears during high tide but no big deal. Lovely polite staff. It is a little further out from town - 10 minute ride- but so quiet.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Moon Boutique Hotel; City: Siem Reap Siem Reap Province; Review: We spent 2 nights at this hotel while we were touring around the temples. It was lovely - clean, quiet with beautiful gardens and pool. The staff were so sweet and caring and tried to do anything to please us. Their English was good so that we could communicate anything we wanted. Our room was perfect for the 3 of us and the bathroom was neat (all stone and tile). We had our laundry done free of charge and they provided bottled water. The breakfast was good and there was lots of food. We had one dinner at the hotel and it was tasty and the service was great. The hotel provided a tuk tuk to and from the downtown area and gave us a phone to call them when we wanted to come back. It was about a 7 minute tuk tuk ride to town. The owner of the hotel is involved in some sort of charity work to help Cambodian youth to train to get jobs. I am happy to support his hotel knowing that he tries to help out those less fortunate.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hotel Villa Dvor; City: Omis Split Dalmatia County Dalmatia; Review: The family that runs this place are so helpful and attentive. The rooms are simple but clean and the views are incredible. The breakfast buffet is very good with lots of selection. There is an elevator up - as the hotel is high on a cliff - or you can use steps. The town is a 7 minute walk with many great restaurants. You can get a bus to Split if you don't want to drive in and the bus stop is a 5 minute walk with about a 40 minute bus ride.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hostal Villa del Angel; City: Villa de Leyva Boyaca Department; Review: We booked this hotel in April 2018 for a Christmas/New Years stay and they cancelled our reservation in August because they told me they were able to book a whole family in by cancelling us. Expedia.ca went to battle on our behalf; however nothing could be done. I sincerely hope that Expedia considers dropping them as client. Not a good enough reason - we had a better offer so you are no longer welcome at our hotel. It's a busy time of year to be looking for accommodation now. Very disappointing!; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Hotel El Dorado Bogota; City: Bogota; Review: Comfortable, clean, large room with huge shower and lovely front desk and bell staff. Breakfast is good with lots of choices. Centrally located near parque 93; lots of restaurants nearby and within walking distance.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Qupid Women's Neo144 Leatherette Basic Slouchy Knee High Flat Boot; Brand: Qupid; Review: Good boot for the price, cute and comfortable; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Shoes 18 Womens Boots Mid Calf 12" Australian Classic Tall Faux Sheepskin Fur; Brand: Shoes8teen; Review: I'd suggest ordering a half size up.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Coobie Intimates Women's 6 Pack Sports Bras 36C Multi; Brand: Barbra Lingerie; Review: Too small and fit awkward for me.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: WallFlower Women's Juniors Basic Legendary Stretch Bootcut Denim Jeans; Brand: ; Review: Great jeans for the price - the long length is perfect and they are pretty flattering. I did notice after wearing them a while that the waist stretched out a bit. I decided to order another pair and go a size down this time.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Justin Boots Women's Gypsy Collection 12" Soft Toe; Brand: ; Review: Love the look of these. They are super comfortable and easy to get on and off. They do run a bit wide so I normally have to wear heavier socks with them.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ariat Women's Women's Chandler; Brand: ; Review: The left boot is tighter on the top - not sure if it's due to my own foot or the boot itself. I am sure they will stretch out with use though. The leather feels like butter and they are super cute!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ariat Men's Rambler Wide Square Toe Western Cowboy Boot; Brand: ; Review: Boyfriend has other boots from Ariat in the same size and he couldn't even get his foot into these.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ariat Men's Rambler Wide Square Toe Western Cowboy Boot; Brand: ; Review: Boyfriend has other boots from Ariat in the same size and he couldn't even get his foot into these.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Roxy Juniors Making Waves Ruffle Bikini Top; Brand: ; Review: I normally order a large from VS in bikini tops so I was worried about a juniors large, however, it fits perfect! Awesome item for the price.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Isotoner Men's Suede Slip-On Slipper; Brand: ; Review: Buy the next size up.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Carhartt Men's 11" Rugged Cargo Short Relaxed Fit; Brand: ; Review: I initially bought these for my boyfriend in a 31 and they were too small. The 32's fit perfectly and my boyfriend loves them.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sperry Angelfish Boat Shoe (Toddler/Little Kid/Big Kid); Brand: SPERRY; Review: I listened to the majority of the reviews on here that said to order the half size down and I wish I had stuck to my gut and just ordered my actual size. I was so excited to get these. They are way too small - my toe is right at the edge of the shoe and they are way too tight thru the rest of the shoe as a result. I am going to send these back and order my real size and hopefully fit because they are super cute. * I just received another pair with my true shoe size and now they fit perfectly!; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Carhartt Men's 11" Rugged Cargo Short Relaxed Fit; Brand: ; Review: Great quality, have to buy these one size up for my bf.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ariat Women's Unbridled Roper Western Cowboy Boot; Brand: ; Review: Just got these last night and tried them on; a little tight but I am assuming they will stretch out and if not, on the boot stretcher they will go! The color is darker in person and the trim on the top of the boot is actually pink. The one great thing is they make your feet look so small. I wear a size 10 and these look like a size 8! As always, Ariats are so comfortable and have great support.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Polar Women's Nylon Tall Winter Snow Boot; Brand: Polar Products; Review: Cute boots for the price point. But, they run pretty small and I have to return them. Also, the faux fur got all over my carpet just from trying them on one time. Sort of a pain to clean it all up. It's too bad because they are nice looking and seemed comfortable, minus being too small in the toes.; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
Given the interaction history of a user with news articles as follows:
Title: Former No. 2 pick Hasheem Thabeet signs G League contract; Abstract: Thabeet, 32, hasn't appeared in a regular-season NBA game since the 2013-14 season, when he saw the court 23 times for the Thunder.; Category: sports
Title: Panthers pick Alabama WR in first round of new 2020 NFL mock draft; Abstract: In a new mock draft by Chris Trapasso at CBS Sports, the Panthers use the No. 20 overall pick on Alabama wide receiver Henry Ruggs III.; Category: sports
Title: Why the Patriots made a very un-Patriots trade for Mohamed Sanu; Abstract: The Patriots haven't traded a second-round pick for an age 30 player since ... Corey Dillon.; Category: sports
Title: Arnold Schwarzenegger among stars forced to evacuate homes as California wildfires rage; Abstract: Thousands of Los Angeles residents -- including stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger -- were forced to evacuate their homes Monday morning after a wildfire broke out on the west side of the city, dubbed the Getty Fire.; Category: entertainment
Title: Bengals' Andy Dalton was looking to be traded before deadline; Abstract: To say that longtime Cincinnati Bengals starting quarterback Andy Dalton was unhappy about being benched on his birthday would be an understatement. Dalton learned of the news from head coach Zac Taylor mere hours before Tuesday's NFL trade deadline.; Category: sports
Title: Arizona transfer Baker receives waiver, eligible immediately; Abstract: This is big news for Arizona.; Category: sports
Title: How the Panthers will approach their breakup with Cam Newton before 2020 season; Abstract: Carolina will trade or cut Cam after this season; former NFL team exec Jeff Diamond has no doubt about it. Here is how he would handle the QB if he were in Panthers GM Marty Hurney's position.; Category: sports
Title: A schoolmaster took coaches' bribes to keep kids eligible. Now she's going to prison; Abstract: For five years, a veteran Charlotte educator took bribes from basketball coaches and recruiters to rig the enrollment and immigration records of dozens of international students so they could stay in the country to play sports, court documents show. On Tuesday, none of those co-conspirators appeared beside Evelyn Mack. The founder and schoolmaster of Evelyn Mack Academy was left to ...; Category: finance | mind |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: Silver Ridge Bed Breakfast; City: Tansley Matlock Derbyshire England; Review: Last minute decision to visit the Peak District and stay at Silver Ridge B&B near Matlock fully justified by wonderful welcome and perfect stay. Claire & Paul were so welcoming & friendly and happy to chat and give us tips on where to go to eat in the evening. Gloria & Richard; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Trehaida Farm; City: Fowey Cornwall England; Review: Stayed for 4 nights - lovely room, very clean and had everything we needed. Little touches like two bottles of water each day were much appreciated. Our hosts Ann and Jim were very welcoming and friendly. We also had super weather - but that was just good luck!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Lugger Hotel; City: Portloe Roseland Peninsula Truro District Cornwall England; Review: Can't really add anything to all the other reviews on here - very good experience with nice little unexpected extras .... We stayed in the boathouse, our room was quite small but fine for 3 nights and very cosy - if anything too warm!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Surf Haven Guest House; City: Bude Bude Stratton Cornwall England; Review: Had a great 4 night stay here. Caroline and Peter are lovely people who made us so welcome. They have clearly worked very hard to create a wonderful home from home and the result is excellent. We stayed in their superior room which has a marvellous ensuite - the shower is to die for! And we also loved the homemade flapjacks and the delicious breakfasts. All in all highly recommended.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Kaikoura Boutique Hotel; City: Kaikoura Canterbury Region South Island; Review: As other reviewers have noted the rooms around the courtyard are very small, we too found that for 2 people and two decent sized suitcases, we too were falling over each other. The service was very good and the location is also good.; Rating: 2.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Guerrilla Silicone Case for Texas Instruments TI-84 Plus Graphing Calculator, ( case only); Brand: Guerrilla; Review: The color is not bright as picture. Ugly on the back. Can't fit perfectly as you can see in the picture. I'm too lazy to refund. >.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Sennheiser HD 202 II Professional Headphones (Black); Brand: Sennheiser; Review: Not bad for the price.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: UGREEN 3.5mm Audio Stereo Y Splitter Extension Cable 3.5mm Male to 2 Port 3.5mm Female for Earphone, Headset Splitter; Brand: UGREEN; Review: Good! I have been looking for something like this for a very long time.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: ESR Yippee Smart Case for The iPad Air 2, Smart Case Cover [Synthetic; Brand: ESR; Review: The quality is not very good, but its OK for the price.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Laptop Backpack,Winblo 15 15.6 Inch College Backpacks Lightweight Travel Daypack - Black; Brand: Winblo; Review: Great value!; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Electronics |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Kindle Paperwhite Skin Kit/Decal - Barcelona; Brand: DecalGirl; Review: I know the back and edges of the new paperwhite are rather undefined, but I really expected this to fit better seeing as it cost a lot for a sticker. There's no way to know exactly where it should fit on the back so I sort of placed it where I thought it looked best. The front fits fine and it's easy enough to move around...just frustrating overall.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Fintie Folio Case for Kindle Paperwhite - Fits All Paperwhite Generations Prior to 2018 (Not Fit All-New Paperwhite 10th; Brand: Fintie; Review: It's cute and seems to function well. The stitching is rather shoddy but that's to be expected. So far it's holding up good, only time will tell.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ctech 360 Degrees Rotating Stand (Blue) Stylish Embossed Flowers Case for iPad 3 / The New iPad (3rd Generation); Brand: GMYLE; Review: It's cute, even more so in person, but after several months of using it, it has started to fall apart significantly. Mostly around the swivel at the folds. It's now cracking and will probably only last another couple of months. Also when I close the case it sometimes makes my screen turn on the off and on then off because over time the tightness of the closure has weakened. If it were made a little better, this would be a 5 star case.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Blue Apptivity Case for iPad Devices; Brand: Fisher-Price; Review: I bought this as a present for my 18 month old niece and her "pad pad". I was pretty stocked, it's cheap and looks cute. Well I didn't open it when I got it in the mail, just wrapped it up and waited until Christmas. Bad idea. When we finally broke into the amazing frustration free packaging and attempted to situate the iPad for its now safe journey off the couch, we were met with frustration. There is a semi hard plastic covering over the screen which I don't remember reading about. Ok that's fine I can live with that. There is NO way to charge the iPad while in the case and NO way to turn the screen off in it as well. To take the back off you need a coin of sorts and you better get proficient at producing a coin because if anything needs done with the iPad you're gonna need to take this case off. I was really hoping this would make lives easier and not harder, which it seemed to do stunningly.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: MobilePioneer 2 in 1 USB 3.0 9pin OTG Host Flash Disk Cable for Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9000; Brand: Mobile-Pioneer; Review: Works great with my Nokia Lumia 2520. Now I can hook up an external hard drive and even some other random USB item. Cheers!; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | amazon_Electronics |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Valley Enterprises® BNC Female to SMA Male Coax Cable Adapter; Brand: Valley Enterprises; Review: Ordered wrong adapter but it is good quality and would do its job.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Baofeng Black UV-5R V2+ Plus (USA Warranty) Dual-Band 145-155/400-480 MHz FM Ham Two-way Radio, Improved Stronger Case, Enhanced Features; Brand: BaoFeng; Review: Awesome product, works as advertised. Beautiful design and feel in the hand. 5/5 will buy again.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Seagate ST3500630AS 500GB SATA/300 7200RPM 16MB Hard Drive; Brand: Seagate; Review: Still running strong two years later. Not one single problem and holds all my backup data. WORD.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Original UT-108UV Radio Antenna, SMA Female 15.6" Whip High Gain VHF/UHF (144/430 Mhz); Brand: NAGOYA; Review: Smaller than I expected, but works so far. Will update once I use it more.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: NEW Naxa NX-319 Portable CD Player w/ Earbuds Black NPC-319 LCD Display Stereo; Brand: Naxa Electronics; Review: CD player skips and skips and skips. Spend a little more money and get a decent CD player.; Rating: 1.0/5.0 | amazon_Electronics |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collins Classics); Author: Visit Amazon's Oscar Wilde Page; Review: Great book, love Oskar Wilde; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Tale of Two Cities (Collins Classics); Author: Visit Amazon's Charles Dickens Page; Review: Good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Great Gatsby (Collins Classics); Author: Visit Amazon's F. Scott Fitzgerald Page; Review: Good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Frankenstein (Collins Classics); Author: Mary Shelley; Review: Good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines; Author: Visit Amazon's Thomas C. Foster Page; Review: Good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Beloved; Author: Visit Amazon's Toni Morrison Page; Review: Good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The grapes of wrath (Penguin modern classics); Author: Visit Amazon's John Steinbeck Page; Review: Good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Heart of Darkness (Modern Classics); Author: Visit Amazon's Joseph Conrad Page; Review: good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Crucible - Play In Four Acts; Author: Visit Amazon's Arthur Miller Page; Review: Great; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories; Author: Visit Amazon's Robert Louis Stevenson Page; Review: Great story; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Anna Karenin; Author: Visit Amazon's Leo Tolstoy Page; Review: Great; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Oliver Twist (Penguin Clothbound Classics); Author: Visit Amazon's Charles Dickens Page; Review: Good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Cracking the AP English Literature & Composition Exam, 2013 Edition (College Test Preparation); Author: Visit Amazon's Princeton Review Page; Review: Good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Awakening (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism); Author: Visit Amazon's Kate Chopin Page; Review: Great; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science; Author: Charles Wheelan; Review: Good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Die Verwandlung (German Edition); Author: Visit Amazon's Franz Kafka Page; Review: Grossartig!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Silent Spring; Author: Rachel Carson; Review: Great story!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: AP U.S. Government & Politics Crash Course Book + Online (Advanced Placement (AP) Crash Course); Author: Larry S. Krieger; Review: Good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Barron's AP Microeconomics / Macroeconomics; Author: Frank Musgrave Ph.D.; Review: Good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena; Author: Visit Amazon's Anthony Marra Page; Review: You need to read it!!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: ESV New Classic Reference Bible (Black); Author: ESV Bibles by Crossway; Review: Good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade eBook; Author: Visit Amazon's Mark Twain Page; Review: Great; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: My Fellow Prisoners; Author: Mikhail Khodorkovsky; Review: You need to read it.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: One-Act Plays By Modern Authors eBook; Author: Various; Review: Great; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Spigen Slim Armor LG G3 Case with Air Cushion Technology and Hybrid Drop Protection for LG G3 2014; Brand: Spigen; Review: good; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Blu Studio 6.0 HD - Factory Unlocked ("Black"); Brand: BLU; Review: good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: LG Electronics LG G3 D855 16GB Unlocked Cell Phone - Metallic Black (GSM); Brand: LG; Review: good; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: BLU Studio 5.0 C HD Quad Core - Unlocked Cell Phone - (Blue); Brand: BLU; Review: good; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: BLU Studio 5.0Ce 1.3GHz Dual Core, Android 4.4 KK, 3.2MP + VGA Camera - Unlocked (White); Brand: BLU; Review: good; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Motorola Moto G (2nd generation) Unlocked Cellphone, 8GB, White; Brand: Motorola; Review: good; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Tech Armor LG G3 HD Clear Film Screen Protector, Polyurethane Film with 99.99% HD Clarity and Touch Accuracy, Clear; Brand: Tech Armor; Review: good; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Huawei Honor 3C Android 4.2 Quad Core 1.3GHz 3G Dual Sim 5.0 Inch HD Touch Screen 2GB RAM Unlocked 3G; Brand: Huawei; Review: good; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | amazon_Cell_Phones_and_Accessories |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: Boss Bitch (Bitch Series); Author: Visit Amazon's Joy Deja King Page; Review: A great read, will get other books from Deja King, keep them coming , I loved it from beginning to end; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Queen Bitch: Part 4 (Bitch Series); Author: Visit Amazon's Joy Deja King Page; Review: Great read; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Stackin' Paper 2 Genesis' Payback; Author: Visit Amazon's Joy Deja King Page; Review: Great Read; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Baller Bitches; Author: Visit Amazon's Joy Deja King Page; Review: Great continuation of a great series can't wait for the next instillation character interesting not one boring page great great; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Bitch The Final Chapter (Bitch Series); Author: Visit Amazon's Joy Deja King Page; Review: Great read could not put it down, loved the ending, had to order the continuation of the character ,good job; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Female Hustler Part 3; Author: Visit Amazon's Joy Deja King Page; Review: Great read; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Stackin' Paper Part 3...Born Sinners; Author: Visit Amazon's Joy Deja King Page; Review: Sorry it ended; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Supreme: Men Of The Bitch Series; Author: Visit Amazon's Joy Deja King Page; Review: Great, fast, true to the character , if yhe Bitch series enjoyed reading about the man and there beginning of life; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Men Of The Bitch Series And The Women Who Love Them; Author: Visit Amazon's Joy Deja King Page; Review: Finally got a chance to read about the men of this great, fast paced series, still I wanted more and more didn't want it to end; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Classic Eyewear 80's Retro Large Horn Rimmed Style Sunglasses (Tortoise/Smoke); Brand: zeroUV; Review: Awesome specs; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Classic Eyewear 80's Retro Large Horn Rimmed Style Sunglasses (Tortoise/Brown); Brand: zeroUV; Review: Awesome specs; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: U.S. Polo Assn. Boys' Engineered Striped Pique Polo Shirt; Brand: U.S. Polo Assn.; Review: Little Small; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: PUMA Boys' Active Zip Hoodie; Brand: ; Review: Very cool looking track jacket. I like dressing my nephew like he is a GTA character.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Dickies Men's Leather Classic Casual Belt; Brand: ; Review: Little on the short side.; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: LED Corn Bulb 85-265V G9 7W 36x5050 SMD 700-750LM 2700-3200K Warm White Light; Brand: Factop; Review: When we plugged in this bulb to our bathroom fixture, it fit and worked fine. But, the light throw pattern was higher because of the base. It didn't light the shade properly and looked unusual. Light color and brightness was OK.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: DMiotech 600A DC / AC Clamp Meter Digital Multimeter with Resistance, Capacitance, Temperature, Frequency, Voltage,; Brand: uxcell; Review: Meter seems fine. Mostly I can look at it and figure out how to use all the features but the manual is very broken English and as such, was nearly useless. Do not buy this if you need the manual to learn to use it. I'd give it 5 stars if the manual was at all useful.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: LED Headlamp Flashlight with Red Led Light - Brightest Headlight Lamp for Camping Hiking Running Fishing Hunting Walking Adults; Brand: Luxolite; Review: This is a great headlamp. Only 4 stars because the light is fairly concentrated but very bright. I recommend.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Homewerks VAC-BFP-Z4B Vacuum Breaker, 3/4-Inch, Brass; Brand: Homewerks; Review: I'm giving this 5 stars because it did exactly what it was supposed to do. But, what I didn't understand is that when it breaks the vacuum, it dribbles water on the ground. Not a big deal but I just wanted a back flow stopper device for my travel trailer. I didn't want to drop water on the ground.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Marsway 1 Rolls Luminous Tape Sticker 10' Length x; Brand: Marsway; Review: Put this on the pull-out step of my new travel trailer. Works very well. I just wish it was a little brighter but I would recommend this for applications where the charging light is good.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: TaoTronics LED Desk Lamp with USB Charging Port, Eye- Care Dimmable Lamp, Metal,; Brand: TaoTronics; Review: I do love this lamp. I use different brightness settings and color temps based on the work I'm doing. Its cool to the touch. Folds really nice and I like being able to point the light direction. Really good spread of light on the desk.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: 2 Gauge 2 AWG 25 Feet Black + 25 Feet Red ( 50 Feet Total; Brand: WindyNation; Review: The finish on this cable was different than the cable I got from the marine store. It was dull and made me think the cable was old. Also, some of the copper strands were oxidized "ie., green" inside the cable. I will probably replace this cable soon.; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | amazon_Tools_and_Home_Improvement |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead; Author: Visit Amazon's Larry Winget Page; Review: I've read several of Larry's books. All are very good! I found this book to be easy to read, understand, and pull of tough, but very practical ideas. Most people have a hard time understanding Larry because many don't like to hear how it really is. Larry's book is great. I've tried several of his ideas - sold some things, reduced my insurance expenses, and cable bill, and have been much more practical on how I grocery shop for my faimly. Are some of his ideas difficult? Sure. But, you have to do whatever it takes to fix your financial situation. I guess it comes down to how important is it for you to get out of debt. If it's VERY important, then buy Larry's book. He's the most straight forward speaker/author I've come across. I've recommended his book to some others I know could use Larry's help as well.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: People Are Idiots and I Can Prove; Author: Visit Amazon's Larry Winget Page; Review: I've read all of Larry's books. What I enjoy most about his writing is his straight forwardness. In a world that is so "PC" it's always refreshing to hear someone speak their mind. We don't have enough of that these days. This book I liked in particular because Larry, as always, really makes you think, makes you work (write things down), and most importantly makes you take a good hard look at yourself and how you can be a better person. This book is a must read for everyone.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Be the Best at What Matters Most: The Only Strategy You will Ever Need; Author: Visit Amazon's Joe Calloway Page; Review: I just finished reading Joe's latest book. All I can say is that it was FANTASTIC!! The book was straight forward, no bull on what makes companies successful. I really enjoyed the simplicity of the concepts. The book was easy to read (many chapters but with few pages per chapter), understand and comprehend. Anyone who is or is thinking about going into business for themselves would be foolish not to have this book on their shelves. Great book, Joe!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Grow a Pair: How to Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business, and Your Sanity; Author: Visit Amazon's Larry Winget Page; Review: I am a BIG Larry Winget fan. I have read all his books, have met and have even studied under him. What I enjoy most about Larry's writing is his straight to the point, no BS style. Once again, if you've ever read any of his books, he shoots straight from the hip. He doesn't mince words yet tells, and shows, you how to get more things done, make your life better, and be a more accountable person simply by looking at your own life and taking responsibility. More people need to grow a pair. Buy this book and all of Larry's books. You won't be disappointed!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: The tell-it-like-it-is guide to cleaning up in; Author: Visit Amazon's Mike Michalowicz Page; Review: I just finished reading this book. I really enjoyed it. Having my own business for 21 years, I wish I came across this book when I first started. So many business books give you a lot of "mumbo jumbo" of what it takes to get a business started. Sometimes you just have to get out there, try it and do a lot of hard work. Mike's book is great because he talks straight with no BS. I think so many business books try to scare you into not following your dreams and getting your business started. I'm a big believer of having the right attitude. Everything starts with your attitude! Mike's books reinforces not only that attitude but shows you simple things to do to help you along the way. I highly recommend this book!!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Your Life is a Joke: 12 Ways to Go from Ha Ha to Aha!; Author: Visit Amazon's Adam Christing Page; Review: Some friends suggested reading this book. So, I took it upon myself to do so. Truly enjoyed it for a few reasons. First, it is easy to read and hard to put down. Enjoyed the way Adam "set the tone" of the book. I laughed, I thought and it made me realize just how too seriously we do take life. Everyone needs to lighten up, laugh more and realize your life isn't going to change until you decide to start doing something about it AND look at it from a different perspective. Would highly recommend this book.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Magnetic: The Art of Attracting Business; Author: Visit Amazon's Joe Calloway Page; Review: Joe's new book "Magnetic" is magic! Whether you're thinking about, just starting or have been in business for a long time, there is something for everyone to learn. The book is easy to read and I couldn't put it down (I read it in a matter of a few hours). His book is insightful, thought-provoking and straight forward. I really enjoyed the underlying themes throughout which were "Keep it simple", "Word-of-Mouth" and make business a "Win-Win". I have other books that Joe has written, yet, this is by far my favorite. This is a must read!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Keep It Simple: Unclutter Your Mind to Uncomplicate Your Life; Author: Joe Calloway; Review: I enjoy the way Joe writes. I have just about all his books. I recently purchased his newest book "Keep It Simple". This book is fabulous! It's a very quick read (only 86 pages), yet, offers such great, straight forward, to-the-point information that you can implement in your life and business right away. I LOVE books like this. Our world is very busy and complex. This book will make you stop, take a deep breath and make you think of ways to make things much more simple. Thanks, Joe! Jeff Scanlan; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: What's Wrong with Damn Near; Author: Visit Amazon's Larry Winget Page; Review: First, I must admit, I have purchased everyone of Larry's books. I learn something new and thought-provoking from each of them. This book is no different. Larry, once again, is hitting you upside the head with a common sense two by four. Of course, like all his other books, I learned some new things that can be added to my business and life success arsenal. The message on page 41 was worth the price of the book itself!! Larry's book is an easy read, has interesting stories, and more incredible stats of which many will leave your mouth hitting the floor. Our country is stuck and very divided. We are losing our core values. We can change a lot of what is going on, but once again, it starts with looking at ourselves. Another great book. Buy it!!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Potential; Author: Visit Amazon's Mark Sanborn Page; Review: I received Mark's book and completed reading it in a matter of hours. I couldn't put it down. Now matter how good you are, or think you are, we can still become even better. The book struck a chord with me especially since I wrote a book on how to do more with what we have. The book is easy to read and broken down into four very understandable quadrants. The book will make you think. I enjoyed the section on thinking because we don't do it enough these days. I strongly recommend this book to everyone because we ALL can do and be better than we currently are in our lives.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Find Your Yellow Tux: How to Be Successful by Standing Out; Author: Visit Amazon's Jesse Cole Page; Review: A must read! Great ideas, interesting perspectives and love how attention beats marketing. Fantastic book!!!; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: Santa Beach Hotel; City: Agia Triada Thessaloniki Region Central Macedonia; Review: Spent a week in the Hotel Galaxias Beach near Thessaloniki - Very nice decor (perhaps a little over the top with bedroom chandeliers), cooked (if you want it) breakfast and superb a la carte dinners. Location could be better (its in between two villages and the beach is only average) - pool good. Internet service was down when we were there much to the annoyance of our daughter - We liked the place - they try very hard and a nice touch was to say breakfast was complimentary - We thought for the morning they announced it but it was for the whole week - Enjoy; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Golden Sands Resort by Shangri La; City: Batu Ferringhi Penang Island Penang; Review: Stayed at the Golden Sands Shangri-La in Penang 22nd January '06 and had been concerned at some of the negative comments about the hotel - no need to worry -the only complaint I have about the hotel is that there isn't enough broadband internet access albeit if you bring your own laptop there is excellent wireless access. The rooms are fine, the food good and the grounds superb - enjoy. Local Night Markets are very good and if you enjoy the local food you can eat like a king for pennies at the night market hawker stalls. PS They are pushing on with the refurbishment of the Rasa Sayang next door - it looks like they are trying to make it 6* (and no doubt the prices will reflect that)- They estimate opening October '06.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Oaks Plaza Pier Apartment Hotel; City: Glenelg Greater Adelaide South Australia; Review: Stayed at the Oaks Plaza Pier Apartment Hotel in Glenelg first week in February 2006 - Initially we were placed in a first floor apartment directly over the bar and one thing the Aussies like to do is celebrate Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights - didn't get to sleep until 2-30AM - Reception were very helpful and moved us to the fifth floor facing the beach - heard no more. All round this is a nice apartment hotel directly on the beach (which is superb) and if you are an airplane buff you can watch aircraft taking off and landing at Adelaide airport to your hearts content.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Slieve Donard Resort and Spa; City: Newcastle County Down Northern Ireland; Review: Booked two nights through Superbreak which got about 15% reduction compared to hotels website - The hotel offers what you would expect from a five star and the view of the sea and the Mourne mountains is unbeatable - Its expensive to drink there and the food is a tad pretentious but the view is worth it!!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hilton London Kensington; City: London England; Review: Stayed 25th and 26th March at the Hilton Kensington - Its a bit of a hike from either of the nearest tube stations but there is work ongoing at the Shepherds Bush station which I think will be finished soon (and its about 50 yards away). But nil desperandum, the bus stop is across from the hotel and with an Oyster Card, trips are only 90p - and you see so much more! The hotel is really good, the concierges have so much local knowledge and the doorman I think is Chinese but, again, whatever you want to do, he has the answer. We stayed in the executive wing (deluxe rooms) - the rooms are fine and roomy and clean but it also gives you access to the exec lounge where you can get snacks and non-alcoholic drinks most of the day and then alcoholic drinks from 6 to 8PM in the evening. The bill had no errors, everyone was helpful and the breakfast was very good with plenty of choice (for all nationalities) albeit, no offence intended, interesting to watch two young japanese girls putting porridge onto their fried breakfast plate! But they seemed to enjoy it so hey!! Can't recommend the Hilton Kensington enough - we'll use it as a base for our next break.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: DORMERO Hotel Villingen Schwenningen; City: Villingen Schwenningen Baden Wurttemberg; Review: Stayed in the Mercure in Villingen (the Schwenningen is its partner town but for most purposes it should be regarded as one city) - the staff are really helpful, the hotel is modern, the rooms/bathrooms are spotless and there is free wifi in the reception area - I found it a little expensive in Germany but that's only because our Pound has in effect been devalued 30% against the Euro. Can't recommend the hotel highly enough!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: London Bridge Hotel; City: London England; Review: Very smart, stylish, understated hotel near to London Bridge Mainline station and tube. Rooms are clean, housekeeping is well above normal standard, minibar is well stocked as are tea/coffee making facilities. Bathroom has flexible shower over bath and is again clean. TV modern (albeit t/text didn't work on our model - however I didn't report it so I can hardly complain). Bed is ultra comfortable tho' our room had some sort of ducting outside the window which made an aircon type noise but it did switch off at 11PM so not a problem. Well stocked for papers and breakfast room is 5* as is breakfast. We'd certainly stay again and would recommend for all types of stay. Concierges, by the way, are very knowledgeable and steered us well.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Holiday Inn Express Southampton M27 Jct 7; City: Southampton Hampshire England; Review: Rooms are excellent with settee and king size bed. No bath, just a shower. Our room looked onto the car park - plenty of spaces but if hotel full you'll be pushed to find a space. The hotel is opposite major cricket ground so that may be the reason for high occupancy. We found the staff very helpful, breakfast was more than adequate and efficiently organised. Very near to the Marks and Spencer at Hedge End which must be one of the biggest in UK - has a very good restaurant and you can dine there in the evening. Wifi not free - Holiday Inn are well behind the times in charging for Wifi. Nice bar for a drink - all round it's very comfortable and we stay there frequently.; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Flanders/Precisionaire 12x20x1 Fiberglass Furnace Filters (Pack of 12); Brand: Flanders; Review: Works great! I bought these because of the low price compared to my local hardware behemoth. They appear to trap dust just as well as whatever brand I purchased before. They are not more flimsy that other filters... just cheaper and a good value in my opinion!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Feit Electric 72331 240 Lumen LED Flashlight; Brand: Feit Electric; Review: The light is nice and bright, and the focus feature is great. I can focus the beam so tightly that the cats will chase the light across the floor. When set wide, it illuminates a good portion of my backyard. It's not mind-bendingly bright, but it's no slouch either. The fit and finish of the flashlight is great. It has a nice heft particularly when the batteries are installed, so it feels solid. The price is good too. You probably won't be disappointed with this purchase although I wouldn't complain if it was more bright (or even ludicrously bright) even when zoomed out.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Powerextra 2 Pack Black; Brand: Powerextra; Review: There's nothing I don't like about these. When they arrived, I plugged them into my charger. The next day, I tried my drill using the new batteries. It worked! About a month later, one of the guys used the drill and the battery was still charged and the drill ran fine. I would say that these are worth the money to breathe new life into your tools.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: uxcell 50 Pcs 5mm Round Head Common Cathode RGB Light LED Emitting Diodes; Brand: ABA; Review: The LEDs I received are still in the bag. But, they are diffused/milky white, not clear as pictured. I chose this product specifically because they were clear, so kinda bummed. But life goes on.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Nanch Small Precision Screwdriver Set with 22 Alloy S2 Steel Bits,Repair Tool Kit for Laptop,Smartphone,iPhone,Jewelry and other Electronics Devices; Brand: Nanch; Review: Like most of you folks who are reading this, I like good tools. Time will tell how tough the bits are, but the screwdriver is nice. The build quality is great. I like supporting quality products, so I wanted to hammer out this review before I forgot. Some of the tips were magnetic, some were not. This was easily fixed of course. The case is so cheap feeling. I wish it was made of better plastic that wasn't so brittle. Then again, even I'm guilty of being cheap, and it's hard to convey the value of a good case to buyers. Get this, support a well-machined tool.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Tools_and_Home_Improvement |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: A Tale of Two Cities (Collins Classics); Author: Visit Amazon's Charles Dickens Page; Review: Paragraphing by person is poor. Many words used are obsolete, though it was intellectual for the 1850's, when it was written.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Oliver Twist (Penguin Clothbound Classics); Author: Visit Amazon's Charles Dickens Page; Review: Paragraphing by person is poor. Many words used are obsolete, though it was intellectual for the 1850's, when it was written.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Great Expectations By Charles Dickens - The Franklin Library (Hardcover - 1979); Author: Visit Amazon's Charles Dickens Page; Review: Paragraphing by person is poor. Many words used are obsolete, though it was intellectual for the 1850's, when it was written.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Hidden; Author: Visit Amazon's Catherine McKenzie Page; Review: It was difficult to follow who said what, sometimes taking re-readings. Proper paragraphing would help.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Spy for Hire (A Mark Sava Spy Novel); Author: Visit Amazon's Dan Mayland Page; Review: Didn't want it to end.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Six Days of the Condor; Author: Visit Amazon's James Grady Page; Review: So exciting; Couldn't put it down. I didn't want it to end.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Last Call: A Bill Travis Mystery; Author: Visit Amazon's George Wier Page; Review: Excellent; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Armageddon; Author: Visit Amazon's Leon Uris Page; Review: The characters and detail story may have been fiction, but the events of the story were real. I remember.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Hidden; Author: Visit Amazon's Jo Chumas Page; Review: Lots of foreign words, feelings, not much action. Significant cultural differances.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Fool Me Twice: A Jake Lassiter Mystery; Author: Visit Amazon's Paul Levine Page; Review: The writing was great. It could have used better chapter separation from scene to scene.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Running With Champions: A Midlife Journey on the Iditarod Trail; Author: Visit Amazon's Lisa Frederic Page; Review: When we were in Alaska, we met the author. She is real real.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation; Author: Visit Amazon's Dean Jobb Page; Review: It was interesting and very good.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Trial by Fire (Newpointe 911 Series #4); Author: Visit Amazon's Terri Blackstock Page; Review: Very Christian, with frequent referrals to Jesus. More Southern Babtist than Catholic,; Rating: 1.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax; Author: Visit Amazon's Joanne Mattera Page; Review: I bought this book when I started painting with encaustic. It is FABULOUS. I look forward to her next book.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Adventure Cookbook: A Transformational Food Journey from the Australian Bush to the Vines of Provence; Author: Visit Amazon's Sofia Brandon Page; Review: This is a really fun book to read......lots of good sounding recipes. I will keep it near the kitchen to try some of them. More than anything you felt like you were tagging along with the author on her great adventure.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day: 100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients; Author: Jeff Hertzberg M.D.; Review: This is a wonderful book for making healthier breads. I'm only just beginning to use it but recommend it highly for what I have made so far.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A New Beginning; Author: Visit Amazon's Brenda Kennedy Page; Review: This book ended too soon...you will have to buy the sequel to find out how it ends. There should be a warning to that effect before downloading and wasting time.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Celtic Viking (Heart of the Battle Series) (Volume 1); Author: Visit Amazon's Lexy Timms Page; Review: this ended before it even got into the book...what a waste of time.; Rating: 1.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with movies/shows as follows:
Title: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Wide Awake (1998); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Missing (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Memento (2000); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Speed (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Perfect Storm (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sleepless in Seattle (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Ghost (1990); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Sum of All Fears (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Rain Man (1988); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: One Hour Photo (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Hunt for Red October (1990); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Murder By Numbers (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: High Crimes (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fatal Attraction (1987); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Top Gun (1986); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Blood Work (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Enemy at the Gates (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: U-571 (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Behind Enemy Lines (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Jerry Maguire (1996); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Cast Away (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Patriot (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Panic Room (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: S.W.A.T. (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Bringing Down the House (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Daddy Day Care (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Adaptation (2002); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Secretary (2002); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Phone Booth (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Anger Management (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Billabong Odyssey (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Monkees: Season 1 (1966); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: John Q (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Remember the Titans (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Green Mile (1999); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Bend It Like Beckham (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Radio (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Thief (1997); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Days of Wine and Roses (1962); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Max (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Proof of Life (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Magdalene Sisters (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lost in Translation (2003); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Secondhand Lions (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Pilot's Wife (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Training Day (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Beautiful Mind (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Pianist (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Finding Nemo (Widescreen) (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Under the Tuscan Sun (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Insomnia (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Pearl Harbor (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The School of Rock (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Gangs of New York (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: House of Sand and Fog (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: American Splendor (2003); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Beyond Borders (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Whale Rider (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Cold Creek Manor (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Fighting Temptations (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Matchstick Men (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: In America (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Duplex (Widescreen) (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: About Schmidt (2002); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Seabiscuit (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Last Samurai (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Runaway Jury (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Cheaper by the Dozen (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Holes (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mona Lisa Smile (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Fog of War (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Nowhere in Africa (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Secret Window (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Junction Boys (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Say Anything (1989); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Within These Walls (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Gung Ho (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Miracle (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Butterfly Effect: Director's Cut (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Something's Gotta Give (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Along Came Polly (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Bruce Almighty (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Road to Perdition (2002); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Monster's Ball (2001); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: In the Bedroom (2001); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Catch Me If You Can (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Kiss the Girls (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mystic River (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Double Jeopardy (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Chicago (2002); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: The Count of Monte Cristo (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Sense and Sensibility (1995); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Gothika (2003); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Insider (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Follow Me (1966); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Freaky Friday (2003); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: 50 First Dates (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: 61* (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Man on Fire (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Italian Job (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Terminator (1984); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: 13 Going on 30 (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Ella Enchanted (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: White Chicks (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Finding Forrester (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Simon Birch (1998); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Jersey Girl (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Cellular (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Meet the Fockers (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: The Passion of the Christ (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Cold Mountain (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Hidalgo (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Troy (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Spanglish (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Return to Me (2000); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Terminal (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Raising Helen (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Are We There Yet? (2005); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ray (2004); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Sixth Sense (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Good Will Hunting (1997); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Forrest Gump (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hotel Rwanda (2005); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Schindler's List (1993); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Gladiator (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Shawshank Redemption: Special Edition (1994); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: You've Got Mail (1998); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Big Daddy (1999); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Something the Lord Made (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Titanic (1997); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: National Treasure (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Notebook (2004); Rating: 5.0/5.0 | netflix |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: The Absolute Beginners Guide: Stitching Beaded Jewelry: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started; Author: Visit Amazon's Lesley Weiss Page; Review: Fab; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Merry Christmas, America!: Megawatt Displays Across the U.S.A.; Author: Visit Amazon's Bruce Littlefield Page; Review: Love It; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Creative Bead Jewelry: Weaving, Looming, Stringing, Wiring, Making Beads; Author: Visit Amazon's Carol Taylor Page; Review: Fab; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Seal Team Seven #21: Hostile Fire; Author: Visit Amazon's Keith Douglass Page; Review: A good read.....wish the writer would continue the series...; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Crusoe, the Celebrity Dachshund: Adventures of the Wiener Dog Extraordinaire; Author: Visit Amazon's Ryan Beauchesne Page; Review: Clearly a must read. I enjoyed every page in the adventures of Crusoe the Celebrity Dachshund. This book brought such joy to my heart on some very sad days dealing with the throws of Cancer. Anxiously awaiting the continuing adventures of such a brave and handsome little Dixie. Kudos to a very talented writer. Please come to Temecula California on your next book tour. May is our Wine Country Wienerfest the only one on the world.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with hotels as follows:
Title: Water s Edge Chalets; City: Trinity Jersey Channel Islands; Review: Stayed overnight on a promotional package with husband & another 2 couples & whilst the staff & food were fantastic (Great value for money) the hotel is looking very tired & needs a really good facelift. Our room (414) was nice & big & very clean but we had an issue with the bathroom. There were no mugs or cups (for cleaning our teeth) and there was an over bath shower (which I have no problem with) but sadly the hose was not long enough for it to be placed up for an actual shower! This wasn't too much of a problem for just 1 night but I would hate to have been there for any longer... Did mention this to the Reception but was just told they would tell maintenance. Overall was a pleasant stay & very good value for money but it just needs a good refurb before the new season I would suggest.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Inn Boutique; City: St Helier Jersey Channel Islands; Review: Booked an overnight staycation with evening meal & Breakfast as part of the Tennerfest deal & we were not disappointed! From checking in to checking out the staff were friendly & welcoming. The bar area is a little small & could do with a few less tables and a few more comfy seats but other than that no complaints! Rooms well equipped and whilst on the small side are more than adequate. Nice décor and very comfortable. The food was superb & would highly recommend.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel Jersey; City: St Helier Jersey Channel Islands; Review: I was lucky enough to win an overnight stay with breakfast here so we recently took advantage. Check in was quick & everything explained well, staff in the bar were happy & very friendly, despite being busy with a party. The room was big, clean & warm. The only minor niggle is there is no plug socket near the tea/coffee facilities to plug in the kettle? Also, whilst they offer a variety of tea there is only 1 of each type.....bit difficult if you both want English Breakfast Tea in the morning????? Nice hotel, would probably stay agsin.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Suite Hotel Atlantis Fuerteventura Resort; City: Corralejo La Oliva Fuerteventura Canary Islan; Review: Have just spent a week away without our son and overall it was a lovely break. The hotel is in a great location, easy walking distance from the shops, bars & restaurants if you want them. We paid extra in resort for an upgrade to the Premium Club "Adults Only" area, but tbh I am not really sure what you get for the extra money? The pool bar did not open until 11am & it closed at 6pm, there were no food or snacks on offer (apart from a plate of sandwiches or the like brought round late morning & a plate of very dry pastries left on the bar in the afternoon!) We really have no complaints, just a few niggles & maybe suggestions. Firstly it states "Adults Only - 16+", now at 16 youngsters are not adults, they cannot go to the bar to order an alcoholic drink so this policy should be changed, it should not state "Adults Only areas". Certainly for the time we were there it seemed that there were a few youngsters who certainly didn't look 16 yet they were staying in the Adults Only Premium Club? Secondly, there should be enough sunbeds around the Premium pool for guests staying in the area, the first 2 days there were at least 3 couples (us included!) who couldn't get sunbeds & when we asked the lifeguard to retrieve some from the stack piled up in the corner we were just told "not possible!", no explanation as to why other than they were locked, unfortunately the barman was not much help either (they both used the language barrier card which in the hotel business in their roles, language shouldn't be an issue in my opinion.) Sadly the attitude of this particular lifeguard did not reflect well on our 1st impressions of the hotel staff. We did speak to our Rep Chloe(?) & Reception to try to resolve it & some extra beds did appear after a while but it was hassle we didn't really want on the first couple of days of our break. Now to the rooms, (we stayed in 6205) these were a very good size and very clean, however the bathroom was a little tired. Sofia, our cleaner did a great job! There is a hob & a kettle & Toaster provided but there is no cutlery or crockery? (Not sure how you would spread your butter on the bread you toasted?) The All Inclusive package is a little confusing, off season you can only obtain drinks free until 11pm yet after May this increases to Midnight, why are guests who go early in the year penalised? Also, we found the lack of readily available food or snacks outside of the restaurant set times was a bit restricting, if you missed breakfast you had a relative wait until you could get some food. A little niggle related to Check Out, this is 12pm which is fine (however as they didn't get to the rooms to clean them until after 3pm I'm not really sure this; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Pontac House Hotel; City: St Clement Jersey Channel Islands; Review: Did a dine & stay here recently & have to say the food was superb. Restaurant staff were very attentive, the manager was very friendly & although the bar didn't open until 6pm he offered to open early if we wanted it. The rooms were clean & comfortable however very dated. I don't think the furniture has been changed since the 70's! The lounge looks like an old people's home & is well overdue an upgrade. A bit of money spent upgrading the rooms & communal areas would breath new life in to a lovely hotel. Sea views from the rooms are to die for.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Premier Inn Langstone A27; City: Havant Hampshire England; Review: Great locating for visiting Portsmouth & areas. Friendly staff, communal areas very clean. Had a couple of issues with cleaning however, 1St day our spare key was taken from the room so we had no electricity? Reception replaced it pretty quickly though but 2nd day 2 sets of towels were taken away but only 1 set put back (difficult when 2 of us wanted showers!) & the bed sheets were not changed... Breakfast appears to be a strange affair, Fri & Sat morning we had orders taken but Sun it was help yourself? Would be easier to understand if it was one way or the other.. Overall a great stay in a nice hotel, will stay again when visiting family.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Old Court House Inn; City: St Aubin St Brelade Jersey Channel Islands; Review: Stayed here for a birthday treat for my husband & from the welcome to breakfast next morning the staff were lovely. Our room overlooked the harbour & it was lovely, the bed was huge & very comfortable. The shower was amazing, one of the best in a hotel I've ever had & they have bath sheets not pathetic small towels like most hotels. It was a lovely afternoon so we sat on the terrace for a few drinks, the bar staff were very friendly, service with a smile. Am sure we will be staying here again soon.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Hoburne Devon Bay; City: Paignton English Riviera Devon England; Review: We have previously stayed at the site in Cotswolds & loved it so we thought we'd give Devon a try. Was upset that site has no cottages/cabins as Cotswolds site did so went for one of the bigger caravans. The bedrooms are just too small for a single bed & a travel cot, once it was up there was literally no room to move & almost made it impossible for the little one to get in to bed when the baby was down. Our caravan wasn't cleaned brilliantly when we arrived, we found an old sock under a bed & an empty vape bottle on the floor in a bedroom! All the caravans are on hills & the walkways don't reach the gates/decking entrances meaning we had to walk along very narrow ledges on wet slippy grass. It would make more sense to have the gate at the other end of the decking (H12) which is at the top of the steps. The crazy golf is very poor & could do with re inventing! The restaurant is very small compared to the size of the park, they could do with adding tables in to the area near the kids soft play, this would suit parents who could eat meals while watching the kids too. The food was nice but it's not a very varied menu however the staff were very friendly. If we were in Devon again we may stay here but wouldn't rush back.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Old Court House Inn; City: St Aubin St Brelade Jersey Channel Islands; Review: Managed to get lunch booked here today for Father's Day after being let down by another venue & am so very pleased we were let down! From arrival til leaving, despite being packed the service in the bar was amazing. We were sat in the very back of the bar but it didn't matter it felt like we had a restaurant to ourselves! Food was amazing & nothing seemed like too much trouble. Lovely touch in giving the Dad's a gift pack of Liberation Ale & a pint glass (just a shame our glass was broken when we got home!) too. Can't recommend this place enough. We'll be back really soon.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Royal Yacht Hotel; City: St Helier Jersey Channel Islands; Review: Stayed here for a surprise birthday treat and couldn't fault it. We had been upgraded to a deluxe room and all I can say is Wow! The room was huge and although it was facing a busy road we didn't hear a thing. Husband had booked me a massage & my lovely girl Nicky was amazing, as I didn't want a part of the treatment booked she altered the package for me which she didn't have to do. All the staff were very friendly & helpful from check in to breakfast this morning which made the experience even better. Highly recommended!; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Beachcombers Hotel; City: Grouville Jersey Channel Islands; Review: Had an overnight Valentine stay here & it was lovely from start to finish. Had a lovely family room up in the Eaves of the hotel do was very quiet. Room was very clean & comfortable. Only point would be that the water gets very hot & as it was a family room it would be dangerous to run a bath for kids not realising. A warning sign advising very hot water might be an idea? The evening meal was delicious and plentiful, as was breakfast. Staff very friendly although have to point out inconsistencies in policies. They say they are pet friendly but I am aware of someone who wanted to stay here for a short term let & was told it wasn't possible with their pet. Might be advisable to check in advance if you are considering visiting with your furry family members.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: We Boutique Hotel; City: Barcelona Catalonia; Review: This is an amazing little gem in the heart of Barcelona. The staff are fantastic, helpful, smiley & friendly - nothing seems too much trouble. Rooms are small but beautifully historic & clean & comfortable this place felt just like home.! Breakfast was plentiful and delicious. Just one point, the lift is antiquated and on our last night we actually got stuck. As reception closes at 8pm it was lucky we had a card with the Emergency contact number of the hotel on us otherwise we would have had no way of getting out. (maybe an idea to have the contact details listed in the lift somewhere or ensure that the lift engineers are able to access the building after hours) Honestly, could not recommend this beautiful hotel highly enough & will be making sure we stay here again when we return to Barcelona.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
Given the interaction history of a user with movies/shows as follows:
Title: Loser (2000); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: It's My Party (1996); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Longtime Companion (1990); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: The Wedding Planner (2001); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Miss Congeniality (2000); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Saved! (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Maid in Manhattan (2002); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Independence Day (1996); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Con Air (1997); Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Around the World in 80 Days (2004); Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Medallion (2003); Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Laws of Attraction (2004); Rating: 2.0/5.0 | netflix |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Ricardo Beverly Hills Luggage Serengeti 21-Inch Shopper, Royal Tiger, One Size; Brand: Ricardo Beverly Hills; Review: Arrived quickly - roomy enough for my laptop as well as other items needed in a carry-on (tickets, passport, medications, etc).; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Genuine Solid Sterling Silver Box Chain Necklace.925 Imported from Italy, 1.2 mm in Width; Brand: Spire Arts; Review: purchased as a gift. Looks great - I added a pendent and it seems sturdy enough.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: New Balance Men's MWM756v2 Country Walking Shoe; Brand: ; Review: Look sharp & easy to get on/off. Comfortable, too.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Columbia Women's Arcadia Plus Size Casual Jacket; Brand: ; Review: Like the zip pockets & mesh lining. Great price, too!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: La Purse Light Weight Solid Color Pashmina Scarf; Brand: La Purse; Review: Haven't yet used the item, but it appears to be exactly as described.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dr. Scholl's Women's Pacific Slide Sandal; Brand: Dr. Scholl's Shoes; Review: Very comfortable. Have barely worn any other sandals all summer.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: Eddie's Prize (After the Crash) (Volume 4); Author: Visit Amazon's Maddy Barone Page; Review: A little disappointed that she went back to him. He is an insecure, naive little kitty with a nasty jealous streak.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, Book 1); Author: Visit Amazon's Terry Goodkind Page; Review: I am a very picky reader... if the first few pages do not capture my imagination, the book goes unfinished. .... this book kept me locked inside it's pages from beginning to end an I still wanted more. .... read the entire series and I am still left wanting more!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Shifters in the Snow (15 Paranormal Romances); Author: Visit Amazon's Jacqueline Sweet Page; Review: Things moved too fast.... always too fast.... find a little more time... put a little more effort into the story; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Take Me With You; Author: Visit Amazon's Catherine Ryan Hyde Page; Review: I was held captive by this book. I have no real way of explaining how much I really enjoyed the read. It was almost as if I were with the characters all the way through. ....; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Her Polar Twins; Author: Visit Amazon's JJ Jones Page; Review: Characters are believable minus the shifter fact. However, it is a powerful read and I suggest everyone read it and decide for themselves.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fate of Perfection (Finding Paradise); Author: Visit Amazon's K.F. Breene Page; Review: Action ok.... story better.... just had to stop and reread several parts....it was a bit confusing until reread. Would recommend to my friends; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Skechers USA Men's Relaxed Fit Memory Foam Superior Lace-Up; Brand: ; Review: Well worth the money for this shoe. They are the most comfort able shoe I own. Its like wearing pillows in my feet. Highly recommend them.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Skechers USA Men's Relaxed Fit Memory Foam Superior Lace-Up; Brand: ; Review: Well worth the money for this shoe. They are the most comfort able shoe I own. Its like wearing pillows in my feet. Highly recommend them.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Men's Stainless Steel Curb Chain Bracelet, 9"; Brand: Amazon Collection; Review: the reviews said that even though it was a mans bracelet that it was very small. This is NOT true. It's quite large and doesn't fit. Going to return it.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: adidas outdoor Men's Climacool Boat Lace Hiking Shoe; Brand: adidas outdoor; Review: I use them for work to clean pools and I wear socks but by the end of the day they are less comfortable and sort of irritate my feet from the wet socks etc. Your feet get quite wet in these shoes as expected but as such they rub and can create blisters. For the most part they are doing what I need them too but could be a bit more comfortable.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Jockey Big Girls' 4 Pack Solid Crop Top; Brand: ; Review: exactly what I expected and very comfortable.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Maidenform Girl Big Girls' Crop Bra (Pack of 3); Brand: ; Review: Fits correctly and comfortable; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Soffe Big Boys' Long Cotton Sleeve T-Shirt; Brand: ; Review: to thick didn't like them; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Soffe Big Boys' Long Cotton Sleeve T-Shirt; Brand: ; Review: to thick didn't like them; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Soffe Big Boys' Long Cotton Sleeve T-Shirt; Brand: ; Review: to thick didn't like them; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Gildan Mens Soft Style V-Neck Short Sleeve T-Shirt; Brand: ; Review: hated them too bulky - not soft enough; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: adidas Aqualette Cf Athletic Sandal; Brand: ; Review: love them...much more comfortable than the old style; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: New Balance Men's MO80 Minimus Outdoor Shoe; Brand: ; Review: hated the curve at the toe and somewhat small; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Nike Men's Vapor Shark 2 Football Cleat; Brand: ; Review: He is pleased they look cool and fit well; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Moeller Flushrite Boat Motor Flusher (Dual Water Feed, Universal, Rectangular Cup); Brand: Moeller Marine; Review: Good solid unit.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: OneTweak New EZ-1 Pedometer for Walking. 3D Tri-Axis Clip-On. Back-to-Basics Step Counter. Simple to Use. Multi-Function. New Pause; Brand: OneTweak; Review: Love it. Had trouble programming it until I read all of the directions. Very simple to do just read all directions first. Customer service is 10 star. They stuck with me until I got it all worked out. Highly recommend this company and this product.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Premium Step Counter Pedometer 3D for Walking with Lanyard - Simple Easy to Use - Get Healthy Have Fun; Brand: CSX - Competitive Sport Xtreme; Review: WOW, worked great and loved it but it has quit after about 2 months. Great simple unit but quit working. Will try again and see if it hangs in there..; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: TASCO MAG39X32D Rimfire Series 3-9x 32mm 30/30 Reticle .22 Riflescope (Matte Finish); Brand: TASCO; Review: Good scope for the price. Working great on a 10 22..; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Caldwell Zeromax Adjustable Ambidextrous Rifle Shotgun Gun Shooting Rest for Outdoor Range; Brand: Caldwell; Review: Great for sighting in a gun. Also handy for when you are working on your rifle wether you are mounting a scope or cleaning.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Uncle Mike's Black Kodra Nylon Sidekick Hip Holster (Size 5, Right-Hand); Brand: Uncle Mike's; Review: Good holster for the price.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Sports_and_Outdoors |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Dickies Juniors' Short-Sleeve Pique Polo Shirt; Brand: ; Review: Absurdly small. I'm normally a 6-8, and the XL was so snug you could see my belly button through the front.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Naya Women's Graphite Lead North Wide Calf; Brand: Naya; Review: Inaccurate circumference.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Columbia Women's PFG Bahama II Long Sleeve Breathable Fishing Shirt; Brand: Columbia; Review: This is a great shirt. I wore it for 8 days straight on Outward Bound, and it kept out the mosquitoes without adding too much heat. I plan to wear it fishing this summer.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Bali Women's Comfort Revolution Wirefree Bra; Brand: ; Review: Very comfortable. Fits somewhere between a regular bra and a sports bra. I like to wear them on more casual occasions when I just don't feel like sending the girls to boob jail.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: SODA Womens Oxley-S Flip Flop Platform Sandals; Brand: SODA; Review: Junky. The straps did not stay in the sole, and they're honestly just bad fashion.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: TIGRADE 2mm/4mm/6mm/8mm Titanium Ring Plain Dome High Polished Wedding Band Ring Comfort Fit Size 4-15; Brand: TIGRADE; Review: Good quality ring. I wear it every day and it has stayed shiny, although it is not as shiny as in the picture. It's a more dull, almost with a little copper tint. I just wanted it as a plain ring, though, so it suits my needs just fine.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Columbia Women's PFG Bahama II Long Sleeve Breathable Fishing Shirt; Brand: Columbia; Review: This is a great shirt. I wore it for 8 days straight on Outward Bound, and it kept out the mosquitoes without adding too much heat. I plan to wear it fishing this summer.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sorrelli "Volcano" Round Crystal French Wire Earrings; Brand: Sorrelli; Review: I got these for my mother's birthday. They are stunning, as Sorrelli's jewelry is, and very sparkly. My mom loved them and wears them frequently.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Nina Women's Vesta YS Dress Pump; Brand: Nina; Review: These are beautiful and look just as pictured. I was supposed to wear them to my wedding, but called that off. I got rid of the dress, jewelry, and everything else, but didn't have the heart to part with these because they were so lovely. The only complaint I have about them is that they have a metallic silver coating onthe bottoms that make them very slippery. I just walked around and scuffed my feet on the pavement for a few minutes, but it didn't help much. I think I'll end up putting one of those sticky sole gripper things on them.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Simlu Seamless Fleece Lined Leggings For Women Warm Winter Stretch Tights Legging; Brand: Simlu; Review: Good quality legging, especially for the price. I wear them under dresses in the winter time, and they're very warm. They don't smell weird like some fleece leggings do, and they wash up nicely. I've worn mine many times over the past few months and highly recommend them.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Columbia Men's Periodic Chart Short Sleeve Graphic Tee; Brand: Columbia; Review: Good quality shirt. Fit as expected.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Lamo Men's Boston Driving Moc; Brand: ; Review: These are great slippers. The guy I got them for really liked them, although he found them narrow. They are comparable to the UGG brand slippers, but are narrower than those.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: CLARKS Women's Padmora Oxford; Brand: ; Review: Great quality. Great fit. Very comfortable.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: The Rebel (Roswell High No. 8); Author: Visit Amazon's Melinda Metz Page; Review: I think having loyalty and friendship is important like most Michael, Max and Elizabeth are the typical aliens who have no clue that more bad guys are out get them. With Michael finally getting a nice family and trying to fit in ---what's next? Well, then Trevor Michael's brother is in town and Michael feels he has to please him and go the extra mile just to feel good about himself. While Maria's brother has went missing. Now Maria thinks there after her and she wants Michael to be there.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Salvation (Roswell High No. 10); Author: Visit Amazon's Melinda Metz Page; Review: Max has become out of control. He's lying to everyone even Liz. That's just not Max to do such a thing at least, Liz doesn't think so. Liz still hasn't felt any connections to Max in a while not like she use to. She knows he isn't the guy you should fall in love with. Yet she feels as if something has taken control of him.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: 501 Spanish Verbs; Author: Christopher Kendris; Review: This was a really great reference book when I needed assistance on conjugating a word, I may have forgotten. However, there are newer words that are not in the book but that is okay because of the familiar patterns from other words used prior to that.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry; Author: Visit Amazon's Bryan Sykes Page; Review: I rated it 3 stars as it was too detailed and sounded more like a bio textbook. It was ok.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Audio CDs for Exploring Medical Language; Author: Myrna LaFleur Brooks RN BEd; Review: I liked that the CD pronounces the words for you. I suggest that anyone can gain some type of knowledge based on if they are working in the medical field or preparing for the medical field. I guess the only disadvantage to the CD is finding the time to listen to it on the go if your car doesn't have a CD player or if you don't own one. I usually listen to it on my laptop while studying so I can hear the words out loud and so that I can pronounce them correctly. I thought it was okay especially since it's a refresher class for me but it would definitely help in other areas of the biology such as A&P, medical term, biology in general because the classes build off of one another. I would definitely recommend if you are having trouble or just want to brush up on some things this would be the CD.; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: 7" .TAB Nero x2 Dual Core Android 4.1 Multi-Touch Tablet PC (Black); Brand: Artchros; Review: Got this for the kids to use to download books from library. Works good for that and a couple of not too big game apps. Basically wanted this as a starter tablet for them to show they could treat it right. Wouldn't work for big apps and is slow at times, have had issues with turning it on and off, but works ok. If you can spend more money and get a better newer one, I would do that. But if need cheap starter this is ok.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 Screen Protector, amFilm Screen Protector for Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 inch Premium HD Clear; Brand: amFilm; Review: Nice screen protector. The system they use works the best I have seen.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: D-Link Wireless N 300 Mbps Home Cloud App-Enabled Broadband Router (DIR-605L); Brand: D-Link; Review: Update: still works well, but the schedule never worked. I wanted to shut off kids Internet at night, but it does not work. It was easy to set up and works way better than our previous one. No good parental controls though, so if you are looking for that look for another one.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: E LV T230 High Impact Resistant Full-body Protection Hybrid Armor Defender Case with Convertible Built in Stand for Samsung Galaxy; Brand: E LV; Review: Good sturdy case for not too much money. Fits perfectly.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: iPhone Charger Syncwire Lightning Cable - [Apple MFi Certified] - 3.3ft/1m for iPhone Xs, Xs Max, XR, X,; Brand: Syncwire; Review: Delivered on time works like it is supposed to.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Fire 7 2015 Screen Protector, amFilm New Kindle Fire 7" inch 2015 (5th Generation) Anti-Glare/Fingerprint Matte Screen Protector (2-Pack); Brand: amFilm; Review: Fit perfectly, nice system to put it on.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Electronics |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: How to Meditate: A Guide to Self-Discovery; Author: Lawrence LeShan; Review: I first read this book 10 years ago and was inspired by Le Shan's insightful introduction to meditation. He tells it straight, describes the history of Western (christian) and Eastern meditation, reviews the basic types of meditation (structured/unstructured, mind/body/feeling centred) and points out potential pitfalls that may befall the beginner and the experienced meditator (more often it's the experienced meditator who gets sid-tracked by uplifting 'experiences' during meditation - such as seeing lights or the image of god or whatever - and as Le Shan points out this is not meditation's goal, so just say, 'how interesting' and carry on). I'm re-reading this book right now and am delighted to have re-discovered it on my bookshelf - it is a fresh reminder of why it's worthwhile to practice meditation.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Secret River; Author: Visit Amazon's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Page; Review: This is an important story: the depiction of first contact between white settlers and Australian Aborigines. Unfortunately I found Kate Grenville's telling of it unsatisfactory because it gets bogged down by heavy-handed writing. The plotline is cliched, the characters are two-dimensional, and the whole just doesn't come together. It's as if the story was a pastiche of bits and pieces that weren't sufficiently reworked before publication. What a pity!; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Shantaram: A Novel; Author: Visit Amazon's Gregory David Roberts Page; Review: Unfotrunately Shantaram did not grab my imagination at all. Nor did I find it emotionally satisfying. I realize Shataram is meant to be a kind of Bollywood story - over the top, flowery, cliched etc. but the Bollywood movies I've seen have been engaging and strangely satisfying, despite their soppyness etc. Shantaram was not engaging because the poor writing and shallow characters spoil the story.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living: A Novel; Author: Visit Amazon's Carrie Tiffany Page; Review: This is a wonderful book. Beautifully written, with an interesting plot and complex characters. I was moved by the story of Jean and Robert's, at times, difficult life and fascinated by the subtle parallel story of how science and progress have their limits. It's always easier to follow rules (be they scientific, religious, cultural...) - living life is more complex than any rules can predict, as Jean and Robert find out. It was refreshing to read a book that's not melodramatic, not overwritten, not drowning in adjectives or unncessary details, and that doesn't need to hammer in every metaphor or symbol.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Gathering: A Novel; Author: Visit Amazon's Anne Enright Page; Review: This book is a wonderful story with the action taking place mostly inside the narrator's mind. Therefore, I suspect that introverts (like me) will be more delighted by this book. For me, this book is about what happens to anyone, introvert or extrovert, when they find themselves drowning in great sorrow. Things happen in life that will knock all of us to our knees. And it is at such times that we all are, in effect, forced to look inwards in order to make sense of an overwhelmingly distressing situation. For Veronica it's her brother Liam's suicide that knocks her over and disorganizes her life, her self, her past. The title 'The Gathering' for me refers not just to the family gathering for Liam's wake, but to Veronica's inner journey to 'gather' herself, to gather her memories, to gather her past, in order to begin to get a clearer picture of what happened (if not why) in her brother's and by extension in her own life. I love the way the book was structured, the way the story circles around a past event (real or half-imagined), touching upon truths and hitting dead-ends before finding an insight. I think memory works like that: it's circular, often inaccurate, events that occurred at different times get fused... The other wonderful thing about this book is of course the writing: it ebbs and flows, it pulses with insight into great themes on: life and death, love and hate, relationships and isolation... etc. But I did not find this book heavy going, not at all. These heavy themes are made lighter by the wonderful prose-style of Anne Enright. And although living and dying, loving and hating are serious business, Anne Enright manages to tell her story with sensitivity and humour.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_books |
Given the interaction history of a user with products as follows:
Title: Borla 40358 Borla Pro XS Muffler Center/Offset Oval 2.5 in. Inlet 2.5 in. Outlet 14 in. x 4.0; Brand: Borla; Review: Awesome muffler. Great quality, great sound. All stainless steel construction. Deep sound with very little resonance inside of my jeep. Not too loud cruising on highway; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Rubicon Express RE1345 5.5" Coil Spring for Jeep XJ; Brand: Rubicon Express; Review: gave me actual lift of 6.25" with aftermarket bumper and winch; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: WeatherTech 446111 FloorLiner; Brand: WeatherTech; Review: fits very well; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Rubicon Express RE9900 Control Arm Drop Bracket for Jeep XJ; Brand: Rubicon Express; Review: helped my flex and ride; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: APS F66789H Black Powder Coated Aluminum Billet Grille Bolt Over for select Ford F-150 Models; Brand: APS; Review: Almost looks like it was factory equipment; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: USA Standard Gear (SL D44HD-30) Spartan Locker for Dana 44HD Differential with 30 Spline Axles; Brand: USA Standard Gear; Review: Works great in my jeep Cherokee with an 8.8 swap. Only time I hear it ratchet is driving slow around sharp turns; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: WeatherTech 84697 Side Window Deflector; Brand: WeatherTech; Review: Went right in and fit well. Just had to reprogram windows for the auto close feature which only takes a minute; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: MotoFab Lifts F150-2 - 2" Front Leveling Lift Kit That Will Raise The Front Of Your F150 2"; Brand: MotoFab Lifts; Review: My 2014 f150 sits perfect now. Only thing is you have to disassemble the strut assembly starting with 2014 model year.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: ARB (820H IPF 7" Rectangular H4 Headlamp Insert; Brand: ARB; Review: Very nice headlight housings; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Spectra Premium CRP06A Oil Pan; Brand: Spectra Premium; Review: The bolt holes weren't exactly where they needed to be but close enough that I was able to start all the bolts before torquing any down; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Walker 35337 Hardware Clamp; Brand: Walker; Review: These were far from being heavy duty. They were not dynomax brand but another brand using the same part number. They all bent easily. One of them came with no nuts.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Ford Racing M-6766-A50 Oil-Air Separator; Brand: Ford; Review: Easy install on my 2015 5.0 f150; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Automotive |
Given the interaction history of a user with news articles as follows:
Title: Woman, suspect dead at 'Tarzan' actor Ron Ely's California residence; Abstract: Ron Ely, who portrayed Tarzan in the TV series in the 60s, was not harmed and is alive and well, a sheriff's office spokesman said.; Category: tv
Title: Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO who led 3 tech companies, dies at 62; Abstract: Mark Hurd, who was chief executive officer of three major technology companies including Oracle Corp., has died. He was 62.; Category: finance
Title: Eva Mendes Gushes Over Photo of Longtime Love Ryan Gosling: 'Look at Him!'; Abstract: Eva Mendes Gushes Over Picture of Boyfriend Ryan Gosling; Category: movies
Title: Thomas D'Alesandro III: Former Baltimore mayor and brother of Nancy Pelosi dies; Abstract: Thomas D'Alesandro III, a former Baltimore mayor and brother of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has died.; Category: news
Title: Celebrity beach cruising for 2019; Abstract: See all the stars who hit the beach this year!; Category: entertainment
Title: Former NBA first-round pick Jim Farmer arrested in sex sting operation; Abstract: Farmer, 55, was booked for trafficking a person for a commercial sex act.; Category: sports
Title: Week in celebrity photos for Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 2019; Abstract: See what the stars were up to during the last week of October.; Category: entertainment
Title: Why ex-NFL star Kellen Winslow II finally pleaded guilty to sex crimes; Abstract: Ex-NFL tight end Kellen Winslow II struggled between two difficult choices before finally pleading guilty to rape and sexual battery.; Category: sports
Title: Halle Berry, 53, flaunts chiseled abs on Instagram: See the pic; Abstract: Halle Berry is trying to motivate her social media followers with her incredible abs.; Category: movies | mind |
Given the interaction history of a user with books as follows:
Title: Motherless Brooklyn; Author: Jonathan Lethem; Genres: thriller, crime, mystery, fiction; Review: This book is a fun innovation on the american hard boiled detective genre. However, it functions more as good story telling than the rather harder work of making sense out of one's own life.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Way to Paradise; Author: Mario Vargas Llosa; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: This book is a literary imagining of the life of Paul Guagin (sp) and his grandmother Flora Tristan. Both people lived lives which included visions of paradise, Flora sought a social revolution and worked tirelessly to form workers committees toward this end. Gaugin imagined a return to more primal urges in his life, for his art. The parallels or lack thereof in the two people's search and the alternating chapters makes for an intriguing mental journey.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Road; Author: Cormac McCarthy; Genres: thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: This is standard C. McCarthy, violence and love. It is also physically detailed, an American maleness represented in a knowledge of nature and tools. It is a surprising Oprah book.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Franny and Zooey; Author: J.D. Salinger; Genres: young-adult, fiction; Review: this book showed me what do with all my arrogant resolves. haha.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Winter's Tale; Author: Mark Helprin; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, romance, fiction; Review: pls to have outline before writing fantasy, also pls to take time to do all expository work, in scifi, or in fantasy, in first third of book. World is established, in all fiction by this time. But not in this book.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler; Author: Italo Calvino; Genres: romance, thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: So the book is a series of first chapters about reader and author relations. As a work about literary theory, it's fun, and much funner than its cohorts. As fiction it sucks. It's really easy to write a good first chapter, but the last chapter, that requires you to rewrite the whole of your book, that's the real stuff. And that's the payoff, the orgasm after the night. If your reader doesn't get that, you are just a tease.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Another Country; Author: James Baldwin; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: This book is hard and beautiful, Baldwin dug deep and put various organs on the table. Don't read it if you want to be happy, unless truth makes you happy anyway.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Pathfinder (Leatherstocking Tales, #3); Author: James Fenimore Cooper; Genres: history, young-adult, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: So as I read this book I realized how much the hero effected my consciousness. I think of the woodsman Natty Bumpo everytime I handle a gun, and his legendary shooting. Everytime I step into a canoe, his mighty canoe springing strokes return to my mind. This is romance with an idealized American for a hero. The Pathfinder is at once tolerant of all cultures, remarking when his Mohican friend scalps a fallen foe that each culture has its gifts and while he, a white man, would never go in for scalping, he understands it is the Indian way. His white cohorts on the mission are unconvinced. He is simple, honest, and yet cunning, and thinks of the woods as a holy place- and he is free, showing up to save his friends, and vanishing again into the woods at the end. This novel was particularly interesting among the Leatherstocking Tales in that in this, the Pathfinder falls in love with the daughter of Sgt. Dunham, Mabel. The Sgt is set on Pathfinder marrying his daughter, and Pathfinder, who refused the charms of hotter girls before for his freedom, is won over by the charm and moral integrity of young Mabel. Mabel is not interested, until her dad tells her he wishes it, and then she might have refused, but the young man she's looking at hasn't said anything. Pathfinder is excited to be marrying the girl- until he finds out that his younger friend, Jasper is interested too. Jasper is younger and more attractive, and more learned than he is, he remarks, and the young lady would probably be more interested in him. He gives her her choice, and she protests, but eventually falls into Jaspers arms- and the Pathfinder- having once again fought against tyranny, in this case in the form of patriarchy, fades into the kingless woods- much less happily than usual. And if it wasn't written so well, I would say it reeked of melodrama because this ending you saw way back in the first fifty pages.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: What Is the What; Author: Dave Eggers; Genres: history, comics, graphic, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: The thing I like about this book is the escape that it represents, for the author from self preoccupation. The book is in the voice of a lost boy from Sudan, and has a clear goal of educating America about that situation. Like his other work, it blurs the lines of fiction and history, for the narrator is an actual person (or at least the text would have us believe so). It is always difficult to try another voice, and the author is always vulnerable to the critique that he does not know the voice. I am going to make that critique in this case and say that while Eggers does well, he is not as the English say, "Spot On".; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Ragtime; Author: E.L. Doctorow; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: Great sweeping twenties and thirties novel about sexuality, revolution, etc.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Book of Illusions; Author: Paul Auster; Genres: thriller, crime, fiction, mystery; Review: This book had a story within a story. The particular problem was that the within was very powerful, but the without was sentimental drivel, that conspired against the grinding real of the inside one, and turned it into sentimental drivel and unbelievable melodrama. Having read this, I'm surprised when people recommend Auster, but I still haven't read the New York trilogy.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Mr. Vertigo; Author: Paul Auster; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: This book is an allegory and moral tale about America, which fails to have anything real, much less smelling and tasting American. It is as American as the Chinese made tin foil the apple pie is baked in. Allegory sucks. This book is like a two by four across the face, which doesn't even smell piney.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Beloved; Author: Toni Morrison; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: Toni Morrison writes some prose which reveal spiritual moment in a character with power and depth- but the plotting- the story telling here- the main thing that pulls us through is the questions about the past, and too much or not enough is given, and then the sense of the ominous that comes with daughter's arrival in the flesh- and this is not built up enough. It's a great novel and a mildly boring story.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Call of the Wild; Author: Jack London; Genres: history, young-adult, children, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: April 13, 2010- I picked it up again, a week ago, and read it in two days. This was the first book I ever read. I didn't know at seven that part of what thrilled me was the prosody of the old past Marxist. There are passages about the primordial beckoning that urges the dog back in time which are among my favorite in the English language. The only problem is, re-reading books is going to let Ray get ahead of me on goodreads.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Portnoy's Complaint; Author: Philip Roth; Genres: fiction; Review: So it was funny, but also a little horrible because the fucked up sexuality of the son of religious traditions- I'm fine. I'm fine, everyone.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Dying Animal; Author: Philip Roth; Genres: romance, fiction; Review: This book is beautiful, short, and has a plot. Its about tatadum- sexuality, and death. In it, an old professor schemes how to sleep with a beautiful daughter of the Cuban bourgesie. He also remembers his own discovery of sexual freedom more as a following of biological urges, than as a revolution participation.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Waves; Author: Virginia Woolf; Genres: poetry, fiction; Review: So I would put her as in the top five prose writers of all time, in what she meant and could do. I am in constant awe reading her, and sometimes I'm really there. The thing is, she isn't about stories, she's about the way people think and live. They are related. I like stories better.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: V for Vendetta; Author: Alan Moore; Genres: history, mystery, thriller, comics, crime, paranormal, graphic, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: So after seeing the movie, the comic was visually disappointing. In fact, there seemed to be little reason not to leave out the art altogether, since all the real movement came out of Moore's writing, which as usual used a variety of authentic voices to tell a story which throws around ideas and makes you think about the ideas that we normally throw out with out examining.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Moby-Dick or, The Whale; Author: Herman Melville; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: So i could just write the back blurb, epic tale of nature and man, good and evil, America and diversity, kick ass. But it's not five stars because the prose are verbose and a little slow for action. James Fenimoore Cooper has the same problem. Still, this is an American first which still rocks- in the water. Somebody, shut him up.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Benito Cereno; Author: Herman Melville; Genres: history, fiction, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, romance, mystery; Review: So this is one of the first treatments of slavery by a white man in America that is willing to totally subvert the whole tradition. Melville is relentless in his exposure of the injustice of slavery, and the humanity in the emotion and intelligence, of the victims of slavery. It's only novella length, so check it. There were voices in that wilderness, crying out.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Author: Mark Twain; Genres: history, young-adult, children, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: So this book annoys me. Basically a Connecticut Yankee shows up in King Arthur's court, and ends up using gun powder to defeat them all. It's funny at times, but I really do think there is a place for legends, and that mercilessly ripping them apart is easy, but not really good for us all.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2); Author: Cormac McCarthy; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: This book is a meandering bit of philosophy, more like Absalom, Absalom except not as precise or piquant. A wolf was a prominent character so that really took it up a couple notches in my estimation- this book refuses the tight structure, or happy lines of some of his other stuff- but I like happy lines- or at least tight ones.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: No Country for Old Men; Author: Cormac McCarthy; Genres: history, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, fiction, mystery; Review: This is my favorite McCarthy so far, the story of a man who steals two million dollars from the site of a coke deal gone bad, the merciless man who chases him, and the old sheriff who is tracking him. Perfect prose and poetry, there are images in this novel that I must continue to chew on, that from different faces are justice, horror, and change.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Orchard Keeper; Author: Cormac McCarthy; Genres: history, fiction, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, mystery; Review: I hate bureaucracy and this is a book about the man who keeps the old orchard, the young boy who learns the mountains, and the bootlegger who bump up against the implacable gears of its engine. It is a goodbye to a different world. It rocks.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Red Badge of Courage; Author: Stephen Crane; Genres: history, young-adult, children, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: Sure, war is chaotic, heroism is just stupidity, and no-one is recommending it- but I don't think actual battles are this boring. Unshackle those poor old prose, Mr. Crane.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1); Author: Joseph Heller; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: This book is a hilarious indictment of war and the military, and even bureaucracy in general. If you like knife like wit- and want to see someone use it against the establishment- try it- though some might say humor is misplaced on this subject. I think the reality is, if you live in the middle of ridiculous injustice, a sense of humor just might get you through.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: All Quiet on the Western Front; Author: Erich Maria Remarque; Genres: history, young-adult, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: This is a story of young boys going to war for the glory of the Fatherland, only to be treated like slaves, and to face horrible disfigurement everyday. Slowly they lose their belief, and finally return home unable to embrace life. The novel describes modern warfare, where the power of the weapons is incomparably greater than the human body, and the simple dismemberment of a man shocked the sensibilities, what was a warrior is now just pieces, in a moment. The conversations between the soldiers, in which naked hand to hand combat by heads of state is preferred to mortar fire as a way to deal with international issues, are at once very real, and also very insightful critiques.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7); Author: J.K. Rowling; Genres: young-adult, mystery, thriller, romance, children, crime, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: I was surprised how much this book was able to leave me satisfied.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Independence Day; Author: Richard Ford; Genres: fiction; Review: This book belongs with Delillo in terms of being about time and place and the characterization thereof, rather than humanity- the tone was deeply engaging.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Somewhere in the Darkness; Author: Walter Dean Myers; Genres: young-adult, thriller, children, crime, fiction, mystery; Review: So I was just thinking about the need for a book about a young black man searching for leadership when I read this. This book is so much more than that, not simple, hard, and true.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture; Author: Douglas Coupland; Genres: non-fiction, fiction; Review: Coupland is an author I really like, because he is always searching for grace. That being said, he gets boring, after a while, I feel like he keeps writing the same book over and over. The tone is charming, the little definitions on the margins are fun. This is a book about a time and culture, and the people of it, and it is not accidental that the naming of the generation was taken from this work.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Monster; Author: Walter Dean Myers; Genres: young-adult, thriller, children, crime, fiction, non-fiction, mystery; Review: So I will be teaching this book shortly in drama class. Its about a young black man on trial for murder, because he was the look out for a corner store robbery that went wrong. So the young man, Steve Harmon, decides to narrate his trial as a screen play. The parts in first person take place in prison. It is powerful and gripping. The ending was open and didn't give me some of the closure I wanted. I understand that that is something an author can do when they want the reader to supply the ending and that works, but it still frustrates me as a reader.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1); Author: Chinua Achebe; Genres: history, young-adult, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: I remember teaching this in Africa. They said, "If missionaries are bad, how come you are here? Why are you teaching us this book, that says missionaries are bad?" It's just that good, I could have told them.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Middlemarch; Author: George Eliot; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: So Eliot writes these stories that are some of the best moral tales in the English language. Middlemarch is about marriage, and three different couples, and good and bad reasons to marry. I know this book was written with a lot of wisdom because of all the times I've been married and how those experiences are reflected in this book.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #2); Author: Chinua Achebe; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: So this is a book that anybody who has had to split two cultures or mesh them should read. It is about a young man who gets an English education and returns to his native Nigeria. Inevitably tribal obligations come into conflict with his new idealism related to corruption and progress. The title is a phrase from a T S Eliot poem, "The Journey of the Magi" and the lines are about how when the magi return after seeing the infant king to their own land they are "No longer at ease here, in the old dispensation/ An alien people, clutching their gods/" If I had read this book after I returned from Uganda, I would have cried a lot. But that's not hard.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born; Author: Ayi Kwei Armah; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: So this book is by an American trained Marxist and it about the new Ghana with Nkrumah as president. It traces the sad move from idealistic and hopeful begins of a new state, to a corrupt and selfish mess. It is a book that I as a Westerner identified with, but my African students found it harsh and unrealistic. It has a heavy existensialist bent, one character, nameless, the man, refuses to participate in the corruption, and he is hated by everyone. Yet he goes on, trying to avoid the dirt, described vividly, on every surface, the floor, the bus, the wall, the banister. I think that anyone who has gone somewhere radically different from home and learned something there has this kind of reaction on returning home. There is something wrong there, that you see at every turn, and it disgusts you, and you feel totally separate, in this ball of distance, where you look the same and people talk to you the same but you are worried about touching anything because you can see the dirt.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Abyssinian Chronicles; Author: Moses Isegawa; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: This book features a cunning hero who bounces through life with gentle attention to his dick and stomach, and generally a laize faire attitude toward everything else, including his country, Uganda, which is getting ripped apart by Abote and Amin. While he's not super likable to me he taught me a lot about the survivalist values of a Ugandan.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Weep Not, Child; Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: It seems like all young adult novels get four stars. Most of them are technically good, it's hard to mess up something that simple, and young adults don't read things that are boring, God bless them, but then, it's truths are kind of simple and easy, even when the book earns them. This is about a Kenyan kid growing up during the period of unrest before the brits left.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lullaby; Author: Chuck Palahniuk; Genres: romance, thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: This is the only book I've read by Palaniuk. His tone is similar to Vonnegut's, wry, simple and humorous, very aware of the flaws that humans exhibit. The difference is that Palaniuk's tone takes on the power of invective, a long hate song about humanity with its grotesque animalness and also its general stupidity, or selfishness or ugliness. And I don't agree with the vision, and I'm not excited about snobbery in general. So even if he's a story teller with some chops, he's still an asshole who hates people.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories; Author: Leo Tolstoy; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: Tolstoy's short stories are awesome, short little intonations on selfishness, spirituality and community, they sound like parables in the bible, or fairy tales done by Grimm, and they are just as tight.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Anna Karenin; Author: Leo Tolstoy; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: One author I like was talking about Tolstoy talking about his characters. Tolsoy said that whenever one of his characters started looking really bad he felt compassion and had to change that. Compassion maybe the wrong word. It may just be understanding, and the with holding of judgment that really matters. Whatever that value is, Tolstoy shows it brilliantly in this book. Some have bad endings, some have good, but you, dear reader, are better than none of them, though you may learn from their mistakes.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: War and Peace; Author: Leo Tolstoy; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: Um, get it over with sometime. That being said, I read this book something like ten years ago, and scenes and characters come up every so often and I chew on them.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Handmaid's Tale; Author: Margaret Atwood; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: So Atwood is one of the most eloquent prosists going, and a good story teller. I'm not sure that the ending had any particular value beside novelty. I find the particular insularity of her characters disturbing, the way that in situations of oppression they do not rebel or look out for the persecuted, but find ways to survive. Along with that there is a trace of snideness that runs through her characters tone, a dividing of the world into enjoyable tolerant sensualists, and other people who all suck. I'm not so down with this.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Raisin in the Sun; Author: Lorraine Hansberry; Genres: history, young-adult, poetry, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: I didn't finish this. It was good writing. It had okay characters, a bit typish, but whatever. The reason I didn't finish it is because even if the title didn't give it away, it became clear that it would end badly. I don't want to teach my kids about how hard life is, and the probability problems people from the ghetto have. They know that shit. It got me thinking about American Classic Drama. I went on a Eugene O'Neil kick back in college, and he was another great fatalist. We all know about "The Death of a Salesman", and Tennessee Williams. Its not just sad. Its a certain type of whine about the overwhelming forces that control life, that give man so little choice, you know, Oedipus Rex, but add in some ideas about economics and sociology. Why? Because really, as a whole, it sucks. Think about Bill Shakey, he could flip both the tragedy, and the comedy. And even is he tragedies there are people who are forces for redemption, stronger than the tides of economics and socialization. I recently finished this- I'm teaching it. It has a great definition of manhood in it- a counter-definition to the American one.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Bel Canto; Author: Ann Patchett; Genres: history, mystery, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: Book about revolutionaries and the upper crust not set in real country = fail. Politics are real. Earthbound. I read half.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: American Gods (American Gods, #1); Author: Neil Gaiman; Genres: thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: A devastating two stars. This reveals that despite myself I am a literary snob- and while this is a good story, (somehow) the characters are a opaque and less than human, and the prose are clunky and work aday.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Drown; Author: Junot Diaz; Genres: young-adult, fiction; Review: So Junot Diaz writes some raw stuff, and the time he must have taken to distill his life and write these few short stories that feel completely natural- he's a craftsman. I did one of his short stories in class, a coming of age tale about the hard surfaces of the world. The narrator learns to stop crying like a (sissy)- and my kids loved it. They know about that shit. I was glad no administrator came in while we were doing it, though.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: On Chesil Beach; Author: Ian McEwan; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: I couldn't watch "Meet the Parents". The tense situation that emerges from lack of communication or perpetuating a lie is painful not humorous for me, maybe because I don't say stuff lots. "On Chesil Beach" is centered around a couple of virgins who get married. The young woman doesn't want to have sex, and finds the idea repugnant while the young man is eager to have sex. Given that that painful premise, with it predicable possibilities for unhappiness and comedy this is a good book. It has moments of hilarity, and pain. That was predictable though- Adriel said that all McEwan's plots are resolution, that something happens early in the book, and then the rest is denouement. In this book, the flashbacks explain the way the virgins got in their situation, but really, this mistake is before the beginning. He tries to put the climax and the mistake somewhere else, and you can read it and see if your are convinced.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; Genres: paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: So I always demurred from being a Vonnegut fan in high school and early college, when it was so cool to be a fan, stolidly pushing throughing nineteenth century two pound books of either British or Russian origins. This is because I was an idiot. Vonnegut is no master of plot, but how important is plot where everything is fucked through and through, and nothing is working toward a meaning- But then that is too simple, he really just tells us what we already know, in whimsical tones, in love with people, but very angry with their condition, and their actions that bring about their condition. Really, he does truly kick ass.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature; Author: Erich Auerbach; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: So this book is one of the few books of lit crit I've ever read. It begins with Abram and Isaac, and it goes through some great Roman writings, some pretty wild Celtic rants about battle axes, and ends with Virginnia Woolf. That doesn't really get what makes it great, he reads the shit out of some text.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies; Author: Jared Diamond; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: This book is important.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Author: Junot Diaz; Genres: history, romance, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: So Oscar Wao is this fat Dominican nerd struggles to get some respect and ass, and keeps getting his ass kicked and heart broken- over shadowed by the curse on his family, and a friendly narrator takes back to trace that curse. There is a particular tone Junot Diaz uses, it as at once wry, rugged, street, and self aware, nerdy, charming- and it is probably the strongest part of this book. The mise-en-scene of Lord of the Rings, and Ender's Game helps a lot too, using fantasy, comics, and sci fi to talk about our world. I think that self aware and charming tone typifies writing that is more time sensitive- relevant, or as Andrew would say, faddy. David Mitchell often has such narrators, Douglas Coupland always does, Dave Eggers, and; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: My Life as a Fake; Author: Peter Carey; Genres: history, thriller, poetry, crime, biography, historical fiction, fiction, mystery; Review: This book is a few stories, framing one another. It has lots of narrative tension, and some powerful passages. I liked Oscar and Lucinda best of his, because sometimes its hard to warm up to his characters. They are a bit like the characters in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Powerful, but really just silhouettes.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Things They Carried; Author: Tim O'Brien; Genres: history, young-adult, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: So this book is a series of stories about Vietnam, and what that meant in particular to the author. It is notable for the matter of fact way it deals with war, death, and horror. The soldiers routinely make jokes about death that would be offensive in a less death filled context. There is also a pretty crazy version of the heart of darkness story in which a cornfed blond girl falls in love with the war, and then the jungle. It could really get four point two stars.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West; Author: Cormac McCarthy; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: The beginning of this book was about the chaotic upbringing or lack thereof of some son of West Virginnia or there abouts, who loves to fight. The chaos of the narrative was annoying because the purpose of reading was unclear. What I am waiting to see happen or not happen? That was the point, that a lack of clarity, and a plentitude violence and chaos formed America. The narrative improves after a few events in which the kid ends up with a band of bounty hunters in Mexico who seek Apache scalps, or any scalp that will pass for Apache. This group is senselessly violent, and the various ways that they destroy towns and villages can be wryly amusing, in its sense of inevitably and the nonchalance with which the merry band of whorers, alcoholics, and murderers practice it. Ultimately McCarthy is presenting here a story in which America is formed by the violent, and the violent will bear it away. Innocence and weakness are punished over and over again. At the end the band of merry wanderers breaks up, and the kid is alone. He is then a solitary man, until he meets the one other survivor of the their group, someone he has been urged to kill before. Anyway, I rode this shit like a tornado out of Kansas, and even if it was a bit hellish, riding tornados is a rush.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Accidental Tourist; Author: Anne Tyler; Genres: romance, fiction; Review: This book is about a guy who writes tourist books for people who want to be able to eat American food whereever they go. His books are listed as "The Accidental Tourist" series. His child was killed. His marriage disintegrates. He ends up doing some real tourism. This book reminded me of Jane Austen in its ability to find the import of lives and hopes in the small activities of day to day life. It failed to be anything like Ms. Austen in the richness of the prose, which I can only describe as work-a-day. The bigger failure for me was the characters. While starting with both humorous and piquant premises for the cast, the book failed ever to really come around and let us inside the characters. They also failed to develop the individuality of characters. I felt as though the characters were literary concepts, and not people.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches #2); Author: Terry Pratchett; Genres: young-adult, comics, paranormal, graphic, fantasy, fiction; Review: Read it twice. It was funny both times. I'm so old I wasn't sure I'd read it before until the last fifty pages.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: 1984; Author: George Orwell; Genres: paranormal, young-adult, fantasy, fiction; Review: I intend to have read the western canon before I die. This was an inevitable read. I'd put it off until I was twenty nine because the book has the misfortune of being so much a part of popular lore that I knew everything that was going to happen before I read it. This took away from the fun. I give it a three only because I think "A Brave New World", a few years earlier, more accurately predicted the methods of control of our current age, because it has a long and needless section in the middle which explains everything and because why doesn't he just punch O'Brien in the face, every chance he gets. If you have not read it I won't give away more. It is a book about totalitorianism and the violence it commits. I remember reading Elie Wiesel's book "Night" in high school. The book was hard because the victims never quite reached the point where they realized that they were facing total evil, and they should resist at any cost. It's easy to say when you're not there, but it's still true: Evil should be resisted, and life isn't that important. Well, I knew humanity had resisted better than Wiesel told it, and this is when my dad turned me onto the Gulag Archipelago.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Philadelphia Fire; Author: John Edgar Wideman; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: So it is with a heavy heart that I appoint but two stars to this book. It has rhapsodic prose, a few characters I could really see, believe. It is about Philadelphia, and it's children, and it's race issues. It sounds like a book that I would love. Unfortunately, it has no plot. None whatsoever. You might compare it to Ulysses or a Woolf. However, this particular book starts with a tight one hundred pages of plot. Then the perspective shifts, I believe the voice is actually the author? and then in the third part we follow around an interesting homeless guy. We never get the end of the first part, the effort of Cudjoe, an escapee from Philly comes back to find a kid who escaped the move fire. So this was a disappointment. I'm going to read reviews of anything else by him and see if he can do a plot. That's what this book felt like, he didn't have an ending, so we went off on these tangents, that were thematically relevant, but a complete renig of the writer-reader contract. I barely got through it, the fact that Philadelphia was in the title, forced me to get through.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Arrow of God (The African Trilogy #3); Author: Chinua Achebe; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: So this is considered part of a trilogy along with Things Fall Apart, and No Longer At Ease. The story is about the chief priest of Ulu, and a challenge to his leadership. I think it is more simple in its projects, there is a story here about the way in which the Ibo themselves failed their god and lost their culture. What I enjoyed was the details of Ibo life, the ceremony before beginning a conversation, the love of proverbs as a rhetorical device, and the variety of personality that makes up the village.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956; Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Genres: history, comics, graphic, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: I read this book looking for the story of people who were tortured, who lost everything, and still resisted evil. I found them. What Solzinietzin did with this book was take the years of imprisonment, torture, and other misfortunes that made up his adult life under the Soviet Regime, and tell all the stories. It's a long read, full of anecdotes that will make it worth it. Also, its is a very comprehensive look at totalitarianism. This is a man who spent years tortured, in labor camps, his life destroyed for nothing, and he thought long and hard about what happened, and what it all meant. The only other book that compares to it in interest is Arther Koestler's "Darkness at Noon". In this book Mr. Koestler, a communist himself, looks at a fictional leader who is interrogated by the Soviet police, and confesses. It is a book in which Koestler sought to understand who his heroes got up and confessed crimes that everyone knew they had never committed. Why did they betray truth and real communism? I think his answer is right. It's similar to 1984, but much more real.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Rule of the Bone; Author: Russell Banks; Genres: young-adult, fiction; Review: I picked this up and read it in three days. It's been a while since I tore through a book like that, and I really enjoyed reading a story where the characters and plot carried me through. Readability out the box. Bone is a kid who lives with his mom and step dad, but his step dad likes boys a little too much, and bone ends up on his own. His adventures are seedy and scary and fun, and very real as a homeless kid. He has to go through a lot of hard stuff, but along the way he is able, despite not having any wise adult help, to find some wisdom. It is first person, a sort of Clockword Orange meets Oliver Twist.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Maytrees; Author: Annie Dillard; Genres: history, poetry, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: Annie Dillard here writes as she always has, with a worshipful sense of the glory of the moment, and a willingness to ask every question and not look away.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Never Let Me Go; Author: Kazuo Ishiguro; Genres: young-adult, romance, mystery, thriller, crime, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: This is Ishiguro's fourth book, about a group of children coming to age in a future orphanage. They are special, and have a special fate in their future, "donations". This book could be termed a distopia. As a distopia it is not particularly memorable. You can't compare it to "A Handmaid's Tale" or "A Brave New World" which identify trends, and imagine what those societal drifts might produce in a couple of years if they are let go. Thematically these things occupy the center of a good distopia. If they don't, why make the book in another world than our own? Just because its interesting? It is a powerful novel in the way Ishiguro's always are, real psychological examination that paints the battle in each of us between goodness and selfish in such a way as to give us sympathy for human weakness. We see how easily the human psyche twists reality to its purposes, percieved as it wants to percieve. The powerful story that happens between three friends would have been just as good without the backdrop of a different world. Given the children's situation I wanted them to protest their subhuman status, or at least to have that protest be part of the story at some level. Also, I don't think this is a viable future.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1); Author: Octavia E. Butler; Genres: paranormal, young-adult, fantasy, fiction; Review: Octavia Butler set out to write the bio of the founder of a belief system. She sets her story in the near future, in a world in which current trends such as drug use, economic inequity, and a failing economy combine to show an America that is sliding into terror. This in itself is the most intriguing element to the novel. The current post-apocalypticd genre has the world change in a moment, through zombies, through war. Perhaps just as terrifying is the idea that there are patterns of economic dysfunction which we will not correct, creating a lawless, hopeless, and homicidal underclass. In this story, the upper class lives in guarded compounds. The middle class builds walls around their communities and carries guns. Leaving the compound to go to work is perilous. And the wall is often climbed by thieves. Of course, this is believable. Such criminality, born of desperation, completely devoid of any sense of right and wrong, is already with us. The other part of the narrative is the characters, their story, and the ideas that unfold with them. The characters are passable, the story is good, and the ideas are rich. Butler is a thinker and highly logical and as with the best of sci-fi, examines questions that are new, and important. In this story the protagonist develops the idea of Earthseed, in which change, as the only constant, is god. Embrace that reality and choose through planning, how the world changes in the future. The paradox in this idea is that on one hand it's core tenant is that humans do not control their world, change is unavoidable, but at the same time, humans are supposed to control their world through planning. Humanism without positivism, perhaps. Also, in a world in which the strong eat the poor, adaptibility is preached by our protagonist, but it's hard to argue that she does anything against good Kantian ethics. I would have liked to see. Butler play further with the conflict between traditional ethics and her moraelity of embracing change. The line that exemplifies this is, "I mean to survive," but the character never does wrong, only unpleasant things.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; Author: Susanna Clarke; Genres: history, mystery, thriller, crime, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: This is an alternate history of England in which the art of magic is renewed as an equal with mathematics, medicine, and the trades. Two very different magicians emerge, become friends, then enemies. They learn of magical powers far greater and more whimsical than their own, and lots of fun is had. This book is an epic fantasy, and its good. This in itself is rare. The characters are often Dickensian, they are types who amuse by behaving typically. While this is fun enough to provoke LOLs, it is also a limitation in this book. It is rare that I feel the warmth toward the characters in this narrative that I feel toward Sam Gangy (sp?) in The Lord of the Rings. This is my biggest reservation about her book. It may be that this is the reality of nineteenth century England. Nobody was actually likable. They were all types. But Jane Austen, and Charlotte Bronte, right? Even Dickens has moments of warmth toward characters. There is too much narrative distance here. It's all comic. Its a great story, and she has done the work to make it occur in a comprehensive fantastical world. The mythology behind it all comes alive as the narrative goes on- next time I talk with someone who read this, we can chat about John Uskglass, the nameless slave, the Northern King at length.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: About a Boy; Author: Nick Hornby; Genres: romance, children, young-adult, fiction; Review: So if you've seen the movie there isn't much else to say. A middle aged man realizes the value of emotional investment. A boy with a counter cultural mom learns something about survival in the jungle like atmosphere of a London secondary school. It was readable in the extreme, I got through it in three days because, even knowing the story, I wanted to see what happened. I gave it three stars because it was easy. It was happy. It was a nice story, but I didn't get any high off it, any sense that I had wrestled with truth or danger; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1); Author: Walter Mosley; Genres: history, mystery, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: I think this is his tightest work, and there are passages when his simple prose picks you up like a gust of wind, and you a kite. So I liked this one best, except maybe, "Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned." As always, he's trenchant on the themes of manhood, power, responsibility, and self-discipline, and their inter-relationship.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Silence; Author: Shusaku Endo; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: Graham Greene in Japan. As such, its descriptions of nature have a stark prettiness- it's tortures are just more gruesomer, and it's good.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Grain of Wheat; Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: I was really impressed by the quiet pacing- and sympathetic tone. This is one of those times where the truth of individual humans made a marxist mitigate.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Thus Spake Zarathustra; Author: Friedrich Nietzsche; Genres: history, poetry, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: Um- scary. This is the dark news that attracts me. I don't read it anymore.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; Author: Sherman Alexie; Genres: history, young-adult, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: The sad humor is great. The way some stories avoid realism and offer metaphorical truth instead is cool. I'd say that it's a little repetitive as a collection though.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: For the Time Being; Author: Annie Dillard; Genres: history, young-adult, poetry, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: In this book Annie Dilliard stays on theme, while introducing personal anecdotes, historical religious figures, and world events and medical conditions. The questions she investigates are the same ones she went after in "Holy the Firm": If God is good- how to you explain this- the answer that she derives in this book, as in the other, is mystical. She routinely throws up attempts at dealing with this contradiction with logic. The prose are exquisite and charming in their eclectic chronology and subject choice. She read for, and thought about this book a lot. Second read- she examines how the holy is present in the immediate and the terrible. This revelation comes to me at a good time, because I am now afraid that the powers of thought that I have are subsumed by streams of meaningless information. The idea that one slows and looks and can see the terror of holiness, close and yet separate, challenges me: unplug.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America; Author: Erik Larson; Genres: history, fiction, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, mystery; Review: "The Devil in the White City" tells the story of the World's Fair in Chicago in 1992. The author did extensive research, and has two main characters, Daniel Burnham, the young architecht who makes the fair happen, and H. H. Holmes, the young doctor who lives in Chicago during the fair. People who are close to Holmes keep disappearing. I liked reading this book most for its thorough history. The Worlds Fair laid the ground work for many cultural norms of today. For instance, Buffalo Bill set up his show next door, and it was immensely popular. Before that, the west and its legends were probably not considered great entertainment. People also got acquainted with AC electricity, thanks to Nicola Tesla. It was also interesting to see how a serial killer might thrive when everything around him was in a state of flux. Yet, real life is not a novel, and this book maybe too much real life. It wasn't really engaging, and it took me about three weeks to get through it. The two things I wanted to have happen, lost some of their weight by the time they did, and the book could have been shorter, to keep those lines of narrative taut.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Chosen Country; Author: John dos Passos; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: I've long been a fan of John Dos Passos. He is the american prosist of the first half of the twentieth century most concerned with social injustice, and the question of how to fight it. He wrote one of the best anti-war novels of all time, in "Three Soldiers." The book telling demonstrates the dehumanizing and soul crushing effects of the military on three different men. This book spans a few generations telling the story of quite a few americans, but the ultimate characters are a couple of young people. The character Lulie struck me as one of the most realistic and endearing portraits of a girl whose got charm. One of the hardest parts of finishing was the realization I wasn't going to get to spend any more time with her. This has less social struggle than most of his novels, but there is an extended story about a lawyer for a striking union, which is very gripping. I recommend it!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: White Oleander; Author: Janet Fitch; Genres: young-adult, thriller, crime, fiction, mystery; Review: This book is the tale of a girl with a warrior poetess for a mother. When her mother kills a boyfriend and is imprisoned the girl is thrown into California's foster care system. There she experiences ignorance, abuse, and need, and love in equal measure, and tries to grow up, while struggling with her anger with her mother for abandoning her. Orphans generally make sympathetic protagonists. One can't help but hope things will get better for someone who has lost everything, who is at the bottom of every pecking order. In this book, we care especially for Astrid, the protagonist, because she has to battle the overbearing personality of her mother. Also, it turns out that Oliver Twist may have had it better than the modern day foster kid. Astrid is old for her age, able to see people's motivatioin. Much of this she learned from her mother. She is also an artist, and the narration reflects this sense for people and eye for detail. The physical impact of characters, their beauty, and their sex and their ugliness and their weakness are all described with detailed realism. Houses and rooms are described in terms of cultural milieu, and their impact on the narrator's mood. The effect is that this is a book that one feels one has lived in, rather than read. The characters are not fictions, but old acquaintances. The characterization also is strikingly good. So read this book. If you don't like it, you shouldn't read, it's an insult to books for them to have you read them.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home; Author: Tim O'Brien; Genres: history, young-adult, comics, graphic, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: I liked this book. I found it to be similar to "The Things They Carried". This seems to be more factual and less literary, a narration of things as they happened rather than in the best well to tell them. It's about Vietnam, how it was horrible, dehumanizing, and fun. It's about the army, how its horrible, dehumanizing, and fun. If you like anti-war lit, this is in the tradition.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Scanner Darkly; Author: Philip K. Dick; Genres: thriller, comics, crime, paranormal, graphic, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: Phillip K. Dick often writes with boring sentences, and some of his scenes and lines are banal. His stories are often unsatisfying, indirect and meandering, seemingly picking an ending point at random. So I ask myself why I like them. It's interesting to about the man. He had a hard life. Lots of drugs, broken relationships and unpublished novels. I think- and this novel may typify this best- that he was writing about what he knew to be true- or better- he was trying to find out and maybe express what was true, and sometimes he could, and sometimes he couldn't. This book is about the damage that drugs do. It's about the process of disorientation and loss of self that happens with drugs, and its also about the hopelessness and hope of the struggle against them and as Dick himself said in the afterword, it is a memoir to all those who were destroyed by drugs.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Home (Gilead, #2); Author: Marilynne Robinson; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: I was not disappointed by Marilynne Robinson's third book. When one reads good literature, for instance, Cormac McCarthy, one is often struck by a turn of phrase or a passage. "How aptly and poetically written," one thinks. This happens rarely with Robinson, because her prose lead us perfectly into the characters' lives. So it is only in hindsight that one identifies her prose as beautiful, and this only because one thinks of the story itself as true in the sense that truth causes one to feel lifted out of oneself. In "Home", Robinson combines the best of "Housekeeping" and "Gilead". On one hand, she describes with her characteristically oblique poignancy the life of the outcast. On the other she describes the long good life of faith with its struggles and its blessings. However, this book is not the same as "Giliead", in which faith was is painted much more darkly here than in "Gilead". Jack, the black sheep of Pastor Boughton's eight children, returns to visit his father in his old age. His father has a hard time seeing Jack again, whom he loves deeply, but who is still an occasional drunk, among other things. Jack's little sister is also home, tending to her father in her dottage. Jack is wary of them both, expecting their accusations. The father, Boughton, recieves his son with joy. However, as the book wears on, there is question about whether or not he has the strength to love his prodigal son. He summons Jack to his room to reprimand him for sins imagined and remembered, despite the great pain these talks give Jack. The character of Jack is memorable, he stands with a slouching elegance and has an irony and humor in all he says, like one long accustomed to failure and judgment. Boughton reminds me of what I know of a religious parent's strong drive to see their child go on the narrow path. The well meaning, and capacity for forgiveness do not lessen the force of displeasure, but rather give it weight. The judgement of a fool, or a bad man, or an enemy is unimportant. But the displeasure of a good, loving and even forgiving father is an almost unshakeable weight. Glory, the little sister, is however, taken with her brother. She remembers his humor, his wistful disposition, and the rarity of his presence from when she was growing up. He however suspects her of being ready with condemnation for his life, and it is only through her sustained effort at kindness that they become friends. She is ultimately the one that recieves a few confidences from Jack, and is able to give him some small comfort. One cannot call this story happy. If there is a common thematic thread in Marilynne Robinson's novels, it is the deep pain that people carry beneath their surfaces, and need for gentleness, forgiveness, and sustained compassion. This does not end the suffering that the world gives people, but it makes it, perhaps, bearable. This is the stuff to smoke.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Prayer for Owen Meany; Author: John Irving; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: So I found this book hard to get into, but it wasn't bad enough to stop. I was reading the hardback though, and they look really big. I kept thinking, all this of this? The thing is, the middle really picked up. My comments are this. There is not a lot of poesy in Irving's workaday prose. He tells stories, and creates characters and worlds. These things are pretty good, although the characters tend slightly toward charicactures, and the stories are a bit larger than life. This story was good, especially the middle section about a bright student going to war with a control freak headmaster using the old weapon of all school boys, pranks. This book is about faith, which is interesting to me. I can't be deeply excited about the definition of faith that is drawn here- one character's conviction born of dreams and visions that he has a great purpose is the archetype of faith. I would say that faith is, to quote Nietzsche, a long obedience in the same direction. The direction implies purpose. A hope that provokes action. That was what this lacked. It was particularly about Christianity, but it seemed like this Christianity was composed of going to Church, and making loud complaints about the inconsistencies there, and waiting for God to present the moment for one's great purpose.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Sweet Hereafter; Author: Russell Banks; Genres: children, fiction; Review: I first read Russell Banks because I found out that he wrote the books that two great movies are based on, "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Affliction." The first of these two is an exquisite movie. In fact, and one doesn't often hear this, especially on Goodreads, but the movie is better than the book. In the movie, directed by Atom Egoyan, the story of a school bus in a upstate NY town going into the lake is dealt with in the aftermath. Most of the children of the town are dead, and lawyers show up, talking about lawsuits. The folktale, "The Pied Piper of Hamlin" is interwoven through this story. At the end, one does not see the folktale as a metaphor, providing one to one correspondence with the characters in the story. Instead, the possible allegorical meanings of the folktale are switched, until the folktale remains as an interpretive schema, the reverberations it provides are about the sadness of losing children, and the fierceness of those who are angry for justice. Dolores Driscoll, the bus driver, is the Pied Piper. She drove the bus that took the children to the sweet hereafter, a place she feels she herself has reached, though she survived the accident. The lawyer from the big city is the Pied Piper of Hamlin, he promises to solve a problem for the people of the town, and also, like the Piper, he is angry. His only daughter is a heroin addict who keeps hitting him up, and he keeps paying her. Billy Ansel, the one guy in town who stands up against the idea of tearing apart the town with lawsuits, is a leader. He is also destroyed after losing his own two children. Then Nicole, the only other survivor, in a wheel chair is the criple kid who never made it into the happy land in the hole of the mountain. She is alone, without any friends. The shots of the snow covered hillsides and the stanzas of the Pied Piper create a haunting tale about the loss of children and the impossibility of encompassing these losses. It is not a moral tale, though it resonates as a true one. The book is good. The story is the same as the movie. It deals with sexual abuse, a topic that I have seen Banks deal with before. It is a topic that we do not deal with enough in our culture. Banks has four different narrators. There are passages where the prose rivals the title for poesy. Dolores Driscoll explains her relationship with her wheel chair bound husband, which is in the movie word for word, is one place like this. Another is when Billy Ansel, having lost his wife and twin children, makes an honest calculation of what is left and finds that he has nothing left to live for. The folktale gave the movie a bit of hope, though it is a dark one. The ending of that story, in which the children end up in a happy place, while the town is bereft always; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Outside Shot; Author: Walter Dean Myers; Genres: paranormal, fantasy, young-adult, fiction; Review: I enjoyed this book. I'm amazed that Walter Dean Myers can be so prolific, and still good. My kids always enjoy his books.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Twilight (Twilight, #1); Author: Stephenie Meyer; Genres: young-adult, paranormal, fantasy, romance, fiction; Review: I picked this book up and read ten pages. I was shocked, because it was witty the way "My So Called Life" is witty. I decided that, despite the rumors I had heard, I would read it. I hoped that its tremendous popularity meant that it was good, and not that people are stupid. Somewhere around page one hundred, I became very annoyed with three words. 'Beautiful', 'Perfect', and 'Electricity' came up about three times each a page, and were always used to describe Edward. So this is a book for fourteen year old girls, and I read it, so I got what I deserved, shut up, right? But Meyers has a good plot. The idea of romance with a vampire allows for a series of operatic high notes: Should Ed stay with Bella, he wants to be with her, when he might eat her? Because he loves her too much to endanger her, but then, she needs protection. Then you add a bad vampire into the mix, well, I got through it, and I wasn't skipping the word "perfect." The characters- is generically ideal really exciting? The writing- is beautiful a good world to use three hundred times in a five hundred page book? But the biggest critique of this book is this- our narrator- a highly intelligent girl, who makes a self sacrificing decision for her mother at the opening of this book, keeps almost dying- because she is a clutz. Then she gets saved by super (beautiful) vampire boy. Then, when he points out he might eat her, she says she doesn't care. She'd rather be eaten by him than be away from him. Somehow its supposed to be glorious that she loses any sense of selfhood before this man who causes her to literally go into cardiac arrest. In fact, she faints the second time he kisses her. Having fourteen year old girls read this book represents a one hundred yard sprint backward for the women's movement. Imagine that Rory Gilmore got married to some arrogant professional athlete. That's what this book feels like. Except at least the athlete would have faults, and then maybe you could care about them.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Author: Philip K. Dick; Genres: thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: I liked this book. He did a good job of keeping the ambiguity in there. I liked it too, because I think my own current project, covering some similar topics, can stand next to it proudly. That's retarded, but hey? I'm a writer.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Young Hearts Crying; Author: Richard Yates; Genres: romance, fiction; Review: The title is a bit melodramatic for Yates, but the book has the vintage stuff, scenes rendered with an ear that betrays the magnitude of hope, and the hopelessness of dreams all at once. The title is ironic, though, for this was his last book and its all the same cry as before. Art is ego, and love is ego. It's not untrue. It's just, if you realize that truth in your thirties, ask some new questions. Don't repeat it into your alcholic fifties. I'm not angry with him, I just wish he found some happiness, and some other truth beside the pettiness of men's hearts and the duplicity of their dicks.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Gentlemen of the Road; Author: Michael Chabon; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: Fun. Very. But not much meat. Like a bag of chips from the corner store.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Prep; Author: Curtis Sittenfeld; Genres: romance, young-adult, fiction; Review: Prep is about a mid western girl who gets a scholarship to a New England prep school. Rather than rebelling against the system, and stealing the rich kids money, which is what the Philadelphian basketball scholarship girl did, she insulates herself from the environment in which she feels that she doesn't fit. She ends up liking some people, but is so afraid of coming off stupid, she can't talk to them. So the book is very striking because we've all been that age, and felt that kind of social inertia, in fact I'm feeling some today. The reader roots for the main character, Laura, do put herself out there. "You're funny!" the reader shouts in their head, hoping that the protagonist will hear, and get loose. In the end, I was interested that the author choose to focus on the aspects of the upper class environment, and how that created the protagonist's behavior, rather than the protagonist's own failure to like herself, regardless of these rich kids. One scene features an awesome showdown between Laura and her mattress salesman father, in which she says awful things, embarassed by him, and in which he slaps her. "Even then, I looked around to see if anyone had seen what just happened." I wanted the book to be about crawling out of that hole of un self possession, but that story was not the novel. Laura promises us that this happened in college, and later life, that she is now much happier. I felt letdown by not getting to hear that story. I wanted it to happen at that prep school, for the midwestern girl. I liked it though.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Hoops; Author: Walter Dean Myers; Genres: poetry, children, young-adult, fiction; Review: Hoops is the best thing I've read by Walter Dean Myers yet. It has a great caste of characters, but the foremost, laconic, tough, and funny Lonnie loves basketball. He gets put on a team that has a chance to get seen by some college recruiters. The reading is smooth, the prose poetic without being difficult or unnatural, but the thing that this book has really got is the wisdom and gradual, unsimplistic way it tackles some coming-of-age issues for young, urban Black America. It is about the complications of urban living, with the multiplicity of bad dudes, and negative stories. It's about the outside shot any kid has got of making it out of the hood, and all the reasons why. Second, it is about an improbable father son relationship between a washed out wino has been, and a tough young basketball star. This part of the plot wrestles with the sense of abandonment that young men feel toward their fathers, and also, the manifold and societal reasons that fathers fail- and the two of them are able to wrestle some good stuff out of all that, but not without cost. Jawn made me cry, yo.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Northanger Abbey; Author: Jane Austen; Genres: history, mystery, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: Northhanger Abbey doesn't measure up to Pride and Prejudice. The heroine, Catharine is one dimensional bundle of virtue, and desire for companionship. The other characters are humorous, but not inordinately particular, nor is their characterization so deft that one finds oneself chuckling at idiosyncrasy in later years. This was the first book that Ms. Austen finished, and she grew, over her lifetime. This prompted me to think about her place in the history of the novel. Is she the first realist in the genre? So I look around, and in the English tradition. Yup, she's a half century in front of Dickens and Eliot. It's easy to overlook this. We have television shows that are about the daily struggles and amusements of ordinary lives. We assume that this is a valid entertainment. But before Austen, it was either horror or epic, about kings and queens. The idea that the simple desires of a seventeen year old girl matter enough to form a book out of, was revolutionary. People sometimes criticize Austen for this. She writes about marriage and money. Her women have no other goal than marriage. But there is another way to look at it, that she had the singular courage to write about what she knew. In fact, she invested, with her witty pen, the lives of women with moment. And she changed the literary tradition, providing us ultimately with Woolf, and the Gilmore Girls. Which is to say, much respect to the dead white girl, and yo, Elizabeth Bennett is the dump jawn.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Outer Dark; Author: Cormac McCarthy; Genres: history, fiction, thriller, children, crime, biography, historical fiction, mystery; Review: So I've only got three McCarthy books left to read for the first time. This is disappointing.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Glass Key; Author: Dashiell Hammett; Genres: thriller, crime, fiction, mystery; Review: This is definitely early Hammett- the story telling is a bit mystic, and people's emotions get described by their eyes. "His eyes went cold", "the happiness left his eyes and something hard came in." It was a bit different, being about politics. Early Hammett seems to have more concerns with how a city works, the power between the bosses, the unions, and the industrialists, where as latter Hammett is often about the power between men and women. Anyway, if you go for this kind of thing, I liked it.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1); Author: Philip K. Dick; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: I enjoyed reading this book. It made me think about my own rationale for my faith. I admire Philip K. Dick for his open-mindedness, in the sense of being willing to consider all kinds of metaphysical and extraterrestrial possibilities. It's hard not to agree with Dick that his drug use and loose grip on reality impacted all this. At the same time, I also say that god has spoken to me at times in my life- so where do I get off. Dick tells us at the beginning, that the protagonist, Horselover Fat, is him. He goes on to describe how Fat loses a few friends to death and receives information in a pink beam that, among other things, gives him a needed diagnosis for his son. Fats goes on to investigate the possibility of metaphysical realities, which seems to be the main thing that keeps him from suicide. I give this three stars, because, as a novel, it's disappointing. As a work of literature, and a memoir of one man's thoughts, it's amazing. Okay, I just convinced myself to go with four stars. It's wonderful to be able to read something so personal by one of the foremost science fiction writers in history. The thing that makes him great is that same commitment to idea exploration. As such his books are sometimes boring, sometimes heartrending beautiful. A Scanner Darkly is a book that highlights his range from boring junkie conversation, to haunting revelations of truth. To read stories of his life, is to see that he is the American Dostievsky- a man of little self-control, ransacked relationships, and myriad dysfunctions. He lived freely, and he wrote so- yet he was no Dionysian, committed to chaos. In the end, as he writes in VALIS, he seeks cohesion, and logic- the Head-Apollo. I find the freedom striking, because I must honestly say that duty guides my life. At some point too clear and strong an understanding of things is a limiting thing for one who gives themselves to the truth.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Coldest Winter Ever; Author: Sister Souljah; Genres: young-adult, thriller, crime, fiction, romance, mystery; Review: This is a powerful tale in which a young girl accepts her parents dubious morality- her father is a drug dealer- and then walks the primrose path and gets into all kinds of fun and trouble. I like though it is dark, longer than it needs to be, and not super hopeful, because I am assured that my students will read it voraciously, and it deals with questions about morality in way they will be able to access.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Jitterbug Perfume; Author: Tom Robbins; Genres: history, romance, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: Hey. Witty as hell. In this particular novel Pan shows up, dances a little, shtups some more, and has a Dionysian old time. And the motto of the book would be, "Lighten Up." I guess an American in this day in age with such a stick can be as selfish as they want to be, and never worry about it. And I also think its hard to read a novel by someone who discounts most morality. Because what matters? How much can I care? I think Shakespeare is a good comparison point, because old Will knew how to write fun and wit, but in the end all his plays mattered, they weren't a list of excuses for living a life that was all about pleasuring oneself- and don't get me wrong, I feel Dionysius plenty and love my fun and my pleasure. But to me letting that be the be-all end-all is a temptation, not a truth.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Chasing Redbird; Author: Sharon Creech; Genres: history, young-adult, thriller, children, crime, biography, historical fiction, fiction, romance, mystery; Review: Sharon Creech is good. If you like young adult stuff that's real, this if for you.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1); Author: Rick Riordan; Genres: young-adult, mystery, thriller, children, crime, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: Here is a book by someone who read Harry Potter, thought to themselves, hey, this makes money. I can do this. And The Lightning Thief has many of the tropes of Harry- there is a school, actually a summer camp, a variety of adult figures, some good guys, some bad guys, and a surprise ending. The additional twist is that this is set in a world in which the Greek myths are true, and our hero is the half son of an as yet unknown god. Meanwhile trouble brews on Olympus, as Zeus accuses different people of stealing his lightning bolt. But style and character are the things that really make Rowlings bump. And Riordan don't got that.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The City & the City; Author: China Mieville; Genres: history, thriller, crime, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: This is a detective mystery set in a fictional two cities which geographically occupy the same space, but which ignore one another. The world building is superb, the characters eccentric enough to come alive, and the story is as fun as it should be. The idea of two separate but together cities seems to allow for thematic investigation that the author chose not to follow- and for me that's too bad.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Midnight; Author: Sister Souljah; Genres: history, young-adult, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: This book reveals that the author is a moralist of the most judgmental, and self alienated sort. It also reveals a lot of hate for the urban- a real feeling from someone from the Bronx- but a significant failing as an author. Without distance fiction becomes diatribe. And diatribe sucks.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: The Yiddish Policemen's Union; Author: Michael Chabon; Genres: history, thriller, crime, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: I have until now, enjoyed Michael Chabon's books with a mixed enthusiasm. In the "Kavalier and Klay" I was disappointed by the Dickension myopia of the plot, while intrigued by his sense of character, and his inventiveness. "Gentleman of the Road" was almost the opposite- it was brief and exciting with a definitive end. In TYPU Chabon combines the best of both of these. The inventiveness of the story, which combines many tropes of the American detective mystery, lawman who breaks the rules, his marriage, and some heads, and alternate histories, a la mode of Alan Moore and Phillip K. Dick, is astounding. His sentence by sentence sense of fun and cleverness make for great reading. The only critique I would offer is that the psychological journey made by the protagonist is trite- and that the characters with more interesting demons to wrestle, an uncle who tries to use his position in intelligence for the powers that be in order to win his people a permanent place, and a possible messiah, whose murder sparks the plot, are periphery.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City; Author: Elijah Anderson; Genres: history, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, mystery; Review: The Gangstarr song of the same name shows a greater passion for inventive expression. This book is good. I wish it had more stories, and less analysis. It's conclusions do not seem deep to me, but then I invest a good amount of mental energy thinking about the questions that this book attempts to answer. If you don't understand the code of the streets, this would be a good way to learn. Them buls ain't playin.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1); Author: Philip Pullman; Genres: young-adult, mystery, thriller, children, crime, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: When I find myself tired and surly at work for about a week, because of a book, it means something good about the book, and bad about my work week. This book was both a great adventure, and an excellent example of world building- I've got the second book sitting on my humidor. I'm going to wait a couple days and try and catch up on some sleep.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: White Jazz (L.A. Quartet, #4); Author: James Ellroy; Genres: history, mystery, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: The prose read as staccato as bulletined broadcasts. It is a story about the LAPD by the guy who wrote LA Confidential- and some of the same characters show up. This is the darkest version of noir I have encountered, and I wouldn't recommend it to those who don't relish bad assed ness- because that, and its interaction with evil- are the primary ingredients.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2); Author: Philip Pullman; Genres: young-adult, children, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: Great story telling. I like Lyra's world enough not to want to read about the other ones- and as this trilogy goes onto to introduce our world, the world of Specters, and finally the world of the mulefa each world gets cornier.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3); Author: Philip Pullman; Genres: young-adult, romance, children, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: This was a borderline four. It could have gone with three. The reasons it gets four is that it has about three of four storylines, intertwining, with characters that are intriguing. The ending is weak- in terms of tone. I felt like he was trying to hit the world resonating somberness of the end of "The Lord of the Rings" but was writing in the tone of young adult fiction- fail. However, as a whole, these books are better fiction than C. S. Lewis' Narnia series, which Pullman is rumored to have written in response to. In this book in Pullman makes his argument against Christianity. I am happy for this discourse to happen as long as it happens respectfully, and intelligently. However his argument is not intelligent or respectful. He reveals that the real fight between good and evil is the battle between wisdom and stupidity. Throughout the book the church is authoritarian, and oppressive. In this context he has one character renounce her faith upon enjoying a bottle of wine and feeling sexually attracted to a man. There is no logical explanation for this decision, nor is it clear to me that wine and sexual attraction are antithetical to the existence of God, or the truth of one faith tradition. God is a senile old man. This is perhaps his clearest argument- God is ready to die, but the insistence of retrograde religious types keeps him alive. The problem here is that this is one person's opinion- and while I feel little need to defend God, being confident that he can take care of himself, I am offended that certain people feel so confident in their own way of seeing faith (and its interaction with science) without, I may venture, examining the historical claims of faith. That Pullman thinks what I believe is stupid and old fashioned is not an argument. And to go further. Pullman is unable to create an interesting fantastical world in which there is not a benign spiritual force that leads people toward what is right- ironic, because the belief in such a force is an intrinsic part of the faith he says he is debunking. I have not summarized all of his points against faith- and some of them are better than the ones I have mentioned- because there would be spoilers in the mix. I'm going to mention one last annoyance- Pullman calls C. S. Lewis's books propaganda and pans them. This strikes me as hypocritical. I don't agree with Pullman's points, but he writes good books. Better than Lewis's. And also, they have propagandist agendas of their own.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Pact; Author: Sampson Davis; Genres: history, young-adult, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: This is a great read for anyone who wants to understand the experience of growing up in the hood. It has great stories that show the reasons for some foolish actions, as well as unfair treatments. It is true, and is a bit bogged down by advice essays that follow chapters in the story- but overall it is written in straightforward and readable stories. It tells the true story of three kids who decided that they all would become doctors, and how they did it.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Child of God; Author: Cormac McCarthy; Genres: history, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, fiction, mystery; Review: The attention to detail and the exotic word choice and syntax rocks. I know that Cormac McCarthy will probably die in my lifetime, and that I will read every novel he writes, so I try to hold off as long as possible. Somedays it seems like the good books are running out. He has in "Child of God" written a disturbing tale of an outcast in the hill country of Tennessee. I don't recommend it if you are squeamish about necrophilia.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Watcher in the Shadows; Author: Geoffrey Household; Genres: thriller, crime, fiction, mystery; Review: Four stars for a project of limited scope. It is refreshing to see the male hero of the European tradition, where reserve is valued above passion.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fever Pitch; Author: Nick Hornby; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, romance, fiction; Review: This book is the memoir of an Arsenal fan. Therefore it's good. It's more about the state of fandom, its pros and cons, than a story of the team, and that, being a fan of the team, was a minus for me, but most people will take that as a plus. My favorite parts were the homages or rages directed at various players.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup; Author: J.L. Carr; Genres: non-fiction, graphic, comics, fiction; Review: Steeple Sinderby Wanderers aren't much, just a village side. They decide, because a local college professor has a crazy theory, to enter the island wide soccer tourney, the FA cup. Full of British characters, and their humor, and precise humor, this book is a pleasure, especially for the soccer enthusiast who perenially roots for the underdog.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Lovely Bones; Author: Alice Sebold; Genres: young-adult, romance, thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: Two stars. Pretty good, but in the end, i felt the author took the easy way out of somethings.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Ball Don't Lie; Author: Matt de la Pena; Genres: children, young-adult, fiction; Review: This book has a lot of spice. Its about surviving in foster care, and it's about basketball. It has a hard edge to it, but is readable. I intend to teach it in the future, though the main character is white, not black.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1); Author: Eoin Colfer; Genres: young-adult, mystery, thriller, children, crime, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: This book is as slick as Chandler, and the tone is reminiscent of a crime thriller, with choppy professional relationships defined by jaded yet witty repartee. The difference is its got faeries and trolls, and science fiction stuff like time-bombs and tribarrel lasers. If you don't want to read it already, it's got a sweetness to it as well, with a nice happy ending. I feel stingy going with three stars. The writing was fun, the story whimsical, but it was hard to become too deeply invested in the outcome. The magic was so overflowingly abundant, that I was sure everything would work itself out. The bad guys were nice, underneath their hard exterior. Still, I looked it up, and was excited to learn that there are sequels.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Weetzie Bat (Weetzie Bat, #1); Author: Francesca Lia Block; Genres: young-adult, children, paranormal, fantasy, romance, fiction; Review: This book is charming and fun. It's very much a girl book in that its about fashion, fun things, and relationships. There are more in the series, and I didn't read on. Certain passages are piquant, and for anyone interested in the border between arts culture and lit, and YA books, this should be on their radar.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2); Author: Ursula K. Le Guin; Genres: young-adult, children, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: So this is the second time I read this, but this time I had read the prequel. This greatly enriched the book, and I found that the descriptions of the dark powers from The Wizard of Earthsea increased the excitement greatly. Ursula Le Guin is among the greatest writers of sci-fi fantasy of all time, and I was not surprised to learn that she is the daughter of an anthropologist. The permutations of culture that she creates continually fascinate me, and I can see with reasonable authority, that despite her prolific output, I will read all her books in my life.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3); Author: Ursula K. Le Guin; Genres: young-adult, children, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: People like to talk about "The Golden Compass" as the athiestic answer to C. S. Lewis' Narnia series. However Ursula Le Guin's series has a far better claim to this title. In these books, the most trenchant critiques of religion, and the best arguments for humanism are presented. In the first book, the greatest enemy is within the protagonist, who must name his darkest self in order to overcome. Old powers are present throughout, and fear is their power. In the second book we see this replayed, with religion being the worship of darkness and fear. Throughout this, the wizards power comes from knowing names. This corresponds to science. But it is the final book that most tellingly seeks to express problems that Le Guin identifies with religion. In the book, people lose their pleasure in life as their longing grows to gain eternal life. The protagonist has to argue back his friends from the abyss of leaving life, and sanity, in their pursuit of eternal life, and fight with the one who makes these promises. It is a gripping book, in which simple sentences are chunked into pictures. In one particularly memorable passage, the wizard of Earthsea visits a city where addictions are rampant, greed has overcome, and chaos rules everything. For the student of the modern city, the description rings true. Visit Atlantic City. Or don't and read the book. Anyways, I had to think through the thematic implications of this book. It is true for a long time that faith in an afterlife has made many Christians into people who do not believe in the goodness of this one. Examples are rampant, but I find the Shakers, with the banning of sex, particularly apt. Recent readings of Paul point out that this is not the intention of the early church, that the redemption, not the chucking, of this creation is what it's all about. Jesus isn't raised as a spirit, he's a body. To quote Bryan Appleyard interviewing Marilynne "Robinson, sitting in a "porch swing", a hanging sofa, swings continuously for two hours. The sounds, the swinging and the damp, dim light make me feel we have been sitting here for ever. In a way, in Robinson's faith, we have, for here is heaven. "In Revelations, what is promised is a new heaven and a new earth.. ." she says, "which sort of suggests what we have here.. . I would not ask for more. It's a vastly more moving idea to me than the idea of pearly gates. I mean, this" - she sweeps her hand in a gesture that takes in the house and the deep green, soaking garden - "would be heaven enough for me."" Therefore, I can read this as an honest critique of what faith often is, but not of what it should be. I wish that this trilogy was not over. I would put this in the top five fantasy series I have read.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet; Author: David Mitchell; Genres: history, romance, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: This is a love story, a story about two cultures, and a story about faith, set in late eighteenth century Japan's border island, where the Dutch are allowed to trade with the otherwise isolated nation. In it Mitchell continues to demonstrate more raw story telling virtuosity than any living author. The critique of him so far has been his effortlessness, the technical brilliance perhaps overshadowing the attachments that the author and reader need to develop for the characters for the book to truly stick. I will venture that in this narrative the reader will find a greater heart connection to the characters. This book does have parts in which the pacing may test those of lesser patience at the beginning as the exposition of the Dutch East Indian Trading Company is slow. I found the history and character establishment here enough to get me through, but for fans of Mitchell, this will be a surprise, as I have usually struggled to maintain other aspects of my life as I gnaw through the pages of one of his novels. The second movement of the plot features monks, and samurais dressing up like ninjas, which Mitchell writes well enough for the reader to engage it, but part of me wonders if this comic book proportions of this part of the book serve the whole. The rest of it relies so heartily on an accurate, often humorous rendition of everyday interactions between characters of different moral fiber, and the Dutch and Japanese culture. This narrative stars a Calvinist, and being one myself, I can say that I have read one so well written in modern times, the current fashion regarding Calvinism being to throw around nonsense that one learned in High School World History, rather than do any actual research. That accuracy gives me faith that the descriptions of the Dutch and Japanese of that time are also on point. They are tremendous. There are any number of memorable characters who appear in this book. One could write an intriguing essay on leadership, using six or seven different characters. I meander. I recommend the book. If you read, talk to me about it, because I'm excited about it.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: 1919 (U.S.A., #2); Author: John dos Passos; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: So I should have read this whole thing in a row. Characters go through all three of the trilogy.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1); Author: Stieg Larsson; Genres: thriller, crime, mystery, fiction; Review: Hard to put down, it reads like a good thriller. One of the main detectives of is a chauvinist's dream, having little personality, but somehow attracting every woman character in his bed. I find it ironic that this character is the hero of a book that is ostensibly about the way women are mistreated. The other detective, the titular tattooed girl, is better, and if she had killed the other detective, this book might have gotten more stars from me. My other gripe is the appearance of (mild spoiler coming!) . . . another sadistic serial killer. I am of the belief that our literature has created more of these monsters than actually exist. Instead of using literature to look in horror at evil we know we are not capable of, it should be used as a mirror, to show us the evils that we are guilty of. Then it can improve us, not make us into self-righteous prigs.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; Author: Ernest J. Gaines; Genres: history, young-adult, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: This is a good read. Because it follows a life, it doesn't have a traditional plot, but rather is grouped into small series that are interconnected. Jane tells her life, from when she was a nine year old kid in slavery, to the nineteen fifties with the Civil Rights movement.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4); Author: Ursula K. Le Guin; Genres: young-adult, romance, children, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: The narrative is not a sprawling adventure, as in the other Earthsea novels, but a quiet walk or two up and down the mountains of Gont, interrupted by farming activities such as sheering sheep, and herding goats. Between, meditations on the fear men have of women, and what hope there is for a disfigured child add weight. This is a novel for someone who already loves Earthsea- and they will love this one. Another thought is that it is the woman book, about relationships, community, and those that threaten these. Full of home, and not wild like the wizard books, though equally glorious.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6); Author: Ursula K. Le Guin; Genres: young-adult, children, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: Upon reading this sixth in the Earthsea cycle, I realized that I have committed a librophile's sin and gone out of order in a series I love. I will read the others though. In this story, the origins of the afterlife, and its seeming unhinging are investigated by a common wizard with dreams of the afterworld, who gets the help of the King, a hot Princess, and many Mages, not to mention a dragon or two, as he seeks interpretation. Ged, the old Archmage, makes an appearance as a simple old man. It showed all of Ursula Le Guin's strengths. The magical dragons that inhabit this world shimmer and gambol, an image beautiful, terrible, and gleeful. The strange metaphysical equations that govern Earthsea continue to unravel. My favorite of her strengths, the richly created cultures that inhabit her worlds, are here, showing her anthopology background. I asked myself as I read, why does Le Guin not have the following that J. K. Rowling does. Her worlds are richer, her images are far stronger, and her ideas are complex and intriguing, compared to the simple morality of Harry Potter. It didn't take long for me to realize why. While Le Guin's worlds are rich in image and in thought, they have little humor. Her novels take place in a cerebralists dream land of complex mythologies that explain metaphysics. Her worlds have no Sam Gamghee's, no Ron Weasleys, and the Weasley twins would perish there in under three minutes from boredom. While I will always love this author with her engagement in complexities that only vaguely reflect back on the world we live in, she is not waiting to be discovered by a larger groups. Though I would put her in the top five writers of fantasy and science fiction, she will not grow more popular. The somber mood of her books will continue to serve as a wall to those who want their reading experience to include levity.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Author: John le Carre; Genres: history, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, fiction, mystery; Review: It's been a while since reading anything that could be called a thriller for me and I enjoyed getting in to a book so much that I finished it by the bathroom light, the married equivalent of reading with a flashlight under the covers. The protagonist is lovable, the cast is Dickens-esque- many vivid characters. There is a bit in a British boarding school that starts it that is humorous- but you say to yourself what does this have to do with big spy drama? Read and see.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Sputnik Sweetheart; Author: Haruki Murakami; Genres: thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery; Review: I honestly considered two stars. Heck, it's two stars. The guy can write the lights out, but for me the story didn't coalesce.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal; Author: Christopher Moore; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: I came to this book with a large amount of reservation. I'm someone who believes the other gospel's version of Jesus' life, so I thought a fictionalization would bother me. Moore, however, was not looking to offend, telling a fun story that was so outrageous, it was hard to think he was telling an alternate history. Along the way, he gets much of the historical context correct, and seems to understand what it meant to be Jewish in Roman occupied Palestine better than most Christians do today. It's a fun story in which Jesus learns kung fu, Eastern thought, and has a crush he can't follow up on, because of his calling. It also features a young Jesus (called Joshua, because this is the name in Hebrew) trying to discover his calling. This deeply interests me. How did Jesus figure out that he was supposed to get crucified? I believe that Jesus read the old testament, the prophets and law, better than anyone else. That was something that Moore didn't get into too much. From a Christian perspective, the best thing about this book is it reminds, and shows you, this was a man, a regular guy in many ways. The bad part is that Moore's humor sort of makes the story meander a bit. It's fun, but this is the one of the most divisive, inspiring historical figures of all time. So the thing I like, his lack of offense, is the thing I find hard too. What are your thoughts on the guy, Chris?; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: A Feast of Snakes; Author: Harry Crews; Genres: thriller, crime, mystery, fiction; Review: ** spoiler alert ** The violence of white patriarchy makes for unpleasant stuff. Not convinced the author entirely agrees. The book is worth it for what Lottie May does when the sheriff pulls out the snake.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Song of Solomon; Author: Toni Morrison; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: Toni Morrison writes with powerful imagination, creating a world that springs to life. The moral ambiguity of this tale is bothersome, and the tale meanders toward its end myopically. This is great writing, but only passable story-telling.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Looking for Alaska; Author: John Green; Genres: young-adult, thriller, crime, fiction, romance, mystery; Review: The best thing you can say about a book is, "I couldn't put it down." John Green gives us that kind of taut narration as we are drawn into the high school story of finding people one can actually trust and admire. The story also has boarding school pranks, hot girls, and studying while eating McInedible's fries. Along the way, some big questions are asked, rephrased, and a variety of answers are posited.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Fault in Our Stars; Author: John Green; Genres: romance, young-adult, fiction; Review: Creating charming characters might be John Green's best talent- but writing accessible lit about things that matter is another good one. In this book Hazel has a terminable version of lung cancer, and she figures that means there isn't a lot of room for romance in her life.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Bossypants; Author: Tina Fey; Genres: history, comics, graphic, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: You'll laugh out loud enough that you can't read it with other people around. Either you'll be anti-social by refusing to explain and read the passages, or your reading will be constantly interrupted if you do.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1); Author: William Gibson; Genres: thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: A rousing gallop across the future- Gibson's talent for creation is what makes this thing jump. He is not a technical sci-fi guy- the improvements in tech are not even marginally explained, but his gusto for creating them, for inventing a world that is literally littered with them make this hard to put down. Kudos for making the Matrix seem like a big rip-off, creating (?) cyberpunk, inventing the word "cyber-space".; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Magic for Beginners; Author: Kelly Link; Genres: paranormal, young-adult, fantasy, fiction; Review: I wish I could give "Magic for Beginners" both 2 and 5 stars but this is not a goodreads option. It reads likes Jorge Borges teamed up with the Brother's Grimm, (maybe add Joss Whedon in there) and adopted contemporary US, with its vast array of mythologies as their topic. Borges added halls to the labyrinth of metaphysics, leaving the reader with a desire to re-read to actually understand, but also a fear and knowledge that perhaps not understanding was the closest thing to understanding. His work is mostly cerebral though, where Brothers Grimm get at the desire and fears in the pits of our stomaches and the apex of our nethers. Kelly Link does both of these, while consisting failing to follow the modern rules of story-telling. Her stories have no established conflict, but follow as many old fairy tales do, a wandering path, switching protagonists, and stories, mid story, multiple times. Symbols are left unexplained, over-used. A search of the interwebs quickly reveals that this medley of Dionysian fairy tale, sci-fi, fantasy interspliced with our time and people is a conscience choice by Link. It is clear from her art that she could do the Raymond Chandler, New Yorker style realism that progresses into epiphany, if she wanted to. She says that it is boring. But Link's writing also is different from most science fiction and fantasy. She consistently disappoints with her ability to create expectation and then wander off in another direction. The stories have little eternal logic. Dionysius, the god or drunk high poets, has found a priestess in Link. Her stories are votives to the unknown, casual attacks on our carefully constructed rules of narrative that we guard so jealously. We would believe, and every story that we allow ourselves to tell reinforces this, that we control our world, that it progresses through logic toward justice. In Link's stories we find a whimsy that if we are honest we must confess is a truth that is other. For me a contemporary application of this is the upcoming American election. Both candidates talk about their plan for the economy. They patiently explain how they will fix it, working out their logic in steps, promising progress, a victory through right policy. Nobody says the truth. The economy is a monster we pretend is our pet. When it bites us we make explanations, when it beshitteth all, we explain why, but we cannot teach him not to bite or train him to our household. No-one understands him, but he can destroy us. It is fickle, immensely complex, and gambols through our houses and floats in amongst the clouds. Which is just to say, Link is right to roughshod over our stories that insist on control, happy or at least logical endings. We don't know anything. Sometimes that can be a lot of fun.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1); Author: Octavia E. Butler; Genres: paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: In this novel earth has been destroyed by war. Traveling aliens rescue a few humans from earth. The aliens will not let the humans reproduce, because of the human contradiction: humans are both an intelligent species and a hierarchical one. The two lead to inevitable destruction, according to the aliens (Oankali). The will allow humans to have children with them, mixed alien/human children. They select one human to train the others. This critique of human behavior, along with the three gendered sexuality of the alien race, make for a thought provoking read- one which lead you to think about our world and where we are going- which is what good science fiction does.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2); Author: Octavia E. Butler; Genres: paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: Octavia Butler continues the story of Dawn. Here the protagonist is Akin, the son of Lilith, a construct, or half human, half alien child. He is male, and since he looks mostly human he is kidnapped by resisters, humans who have refuses to mate with the aliens. The aliens have genetically mutated them into sterility, rather than allow them to reproduce and recreate the species that killed itself off. Akin goes on to realize that injustice of not allowing some humans to continue with their species. He turns into the advocate for the humans, even though he ultimately is convinced that humanity will just kill itself off again. Fun read.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dragonbreath (Dragonbreath, #1); Author: Ursula Vernon; Genres: young-adult, comics, children, paranormal, graphic, fantasy, fiction; Review: So I've been reading some heavy stuff. No really, with my own piddling attemps at comicteering just starting, my buddy passed me this book as an example of fiction mixed with comic. Its a reptilian, mythical take on the Calvin and Hobbes/Bart Simpson American boy trope, but the use of art is solid, and the humor can reach adults as well as children.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings; Author: Christopher Moore; Genres: romance, thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: Christopher Moore's talent for whimsy makes his books read like plot mad libs. His books are hilarious, and inherently random. Sometimes this is not great. This story starts with a realistic picture of a scientist community on Hawaii, studying whales' behavior, particularly their song. It then gallivants off into the realm of science fiction. It intrigues. It bewilders. It amuses. I will not say it satisfies. In his surprisingly earnest afterward Moore says this is a book about whale preservation. The random nature of the plot belies this idea. Moore's only message is to have fun, take life as it comes, and never be too serious. Somehow it makes that point with science fiction. I won't go into details, to avoid a spoiler, but I found this aspect, especially the way that it un-whaled the very whales the book to be ostensibly about, disappointing. I don't have a problem with science fiction, but anytime I read Moore, I find that he is recreating the world he writes about every ninety pages. It's as if one world, or set of rules, runs out of interest. It's fun. It doesn't mean much.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Virgin Suicides; Author: Jeffrey Eugenides; Genres: history, young-adult, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: The particular thing that I loved- was the conclusion that the boys are stuck on the girls, because of the selfishness of their suicide. That meant that the boys didn't even matter to the girls. This is actually the source of their fascination, according to me. The other thing. This is a story without answers; it makes you continue to think.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mighty Lobo; Author: Max Brand; Genres: fiction; Review: If you're a sucker for western tales with wolves, Indians, and gold mines and beautiful girls, cut throats, and the man that faces them all, blah blah blah. I sure enjoyed reading it.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: True Grit; Author: Charles Portis; Genres: history, young-adult, mystery, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: The Coen Bros. version of this tale enthralled me to the point where my wife insisted that I stop watching it after about a week. And they succeeded in capturing the comedy. I think this book would be funny, but having already laughed often at all the jokes they didn't catch me. The voice is strong too. Watch the film. I feel like a horrible person.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Slam; Author: Nick Hornby; Genres: romance, children, young-adult, fiction; Review: ** spoiler alert ** I couldn't put it down. The voice of Sam, the protagonist narrator, was fun, honest, and humorous. The story was well paced. So why the two stars? Spoiler land. This is a story about a very young couple who get pregnant and decide to keep the baby. The title is a word for a hard skating crash, and in this case, life crashes hard when young kids get preggo. The story is about whether or not they can make it work, and whether the protagonist can be a good father. The relationship fails, but he remains a good father. And I do believe that a kid deserves more dad than he can get when his parents aren't together. In the book the narrator says that two people that don't belong together shouldn't be, and them arguing in the same room with one another with their kid isn't doing anyone any good. However, the two of them do like each other, but the boy can't get over his stuff, and he's mean to her, etc. etc. I guess for me, I believed in the two of them, and I thought the story was about their success as a couple and then that didn't happen. The author established a conflict and then washed it away with a few pages at the end of the book that placed the two in new relationships. So. Read it. But the beginning is better than the end.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Ready, Okay; Author: Adam Cadre; Genres: young-adult, fiction; Review: When I finished this book, I called it good, and also said I was devastated. The charming array of characters from the first half found drugs, abuse, failure, loss, or worse. The picture of our society that is painted here is sharply critical and overwhelmingly sad. One aspect of this social critique is the world of teenagers. At first it seems that parents are just absent from the narrative, in the way that parents are not part of teenagers' social scene, but further reading shows that the best parent is oblivious. Their children may whore themselves out for drugs. More often parents, or guardians are neglectful. Sometimes they are abusive. The best parent of the story is the narrator's father. To bad he's dead. He also had five children with a woman who seemed to have little interest in them, so he was far from perfect. In some sense, there was a need for meaningful authority to reward goodness and protect the innocent, but it never happened. The parents themselves were too busy seeking whatever they thought might give their lives meaning. The other thing, and it is connected, is the way that boys' sexuality is portrayed. They bully, cajole, and rape the girls. The girls are often oblivious to the way they are mistreated, are unempowered by their world, their parentless (and therefore) loveless lives, and with few exceptions, accept this treatment. At one point, a notorious deflowerer of girls explains to the narrator that all women are masochists. They like boys when there is a potential to hurt. His list of conquests (for so he views them) seem to bear out his theory in this story. So 1) read the book. 2) punch somebody in the crouch who's thinking with it. 3) If you are going to have a child love it. And tell it that if it thinks with its crouch instead of its heart- you'll punch it in the crouch.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Pastoralia; Author: George Saunders; Genres: paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: George Saunders in his collection Pastoralia uses highly improbable settings, like workers who live in a caveman display. He has a mild mannered aunt comes back as a cussing, horny, zombie who kno. w the truth. Even the stories with no unrealistic elements read as like fables, where the narrative is not bound by the rules of science, or believability. A common thread in the stories is trapped-ness. In the first story, the actors in the cavemen display have terrible family problems. Their co-workers fall victim to downsizing, as memo after memo threatens them with unemployment. In other stories, people's families are ordinary, with needs that the responsible members lack the ability to meet. Part of the trap is the space between the dreamed of world, and the harshness of real problems. The stories indict our economy, our self help culture and our narratives of control. The narratives invite us to ask whether glory and self actualization is better than loyalty to the ineffectual and broken. Success is shown to be a broken altar. I would like to blow a trumpet heralding the dethroning of realist fiction. For a long time I've been unable to read contemporary such- with a few exceptions. The advent of the fantastical in serious fiction is over due. Writers such as George Saunders and Kelly Link ride roughshod on contemporary academically produced fiction. Fiction can be important and entertaining at the same time. You will think about these stories after you finish them and they will resist easy conclusions.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Northern Light; Author: Jennifer Donnelly; Genres: history, young-adult, mystery, thriller, children, crime, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: A book about a young woman finding herself, with a backdrop composed of stories about women whose lives are given to others, some happily, others forcibly. Jennifer Donnelly does a clever job of writing about farming in early twentieth century New York, while also writing about universal questions young people face. I haven't mentioned that it's a good read.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fuzzy Nation; Author: John Scalzi; Genres: paranormal, young-adult, fantasy, fiction; Review: The reading joy is tops. The finale features moments of genuinely laughing out loud and yelling things like, "Haha, right in the kisser!"; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Stranger Things Happen; Author: Kelly Link; Genres: paranormal, young-adult, fantasy, fiction; Review: Kelly Link's stories aren't just something a seven year old kid with a dark imagination might tell you, though they can feel that, not following any foreseeable trail. They refuse the Aristotleian story structure for something that bears greater resemblance to real life, with twists and alleys, and chasms. But this should not be confused for writing whimsy, a lack of discipline and vision. The stories have reoccuring motifs, songs and connections. My favorite would be "The Specialist's Hat" a story that freaked me out, while it amused me. When I read "Magic for Beginners" it seemed to me that Kelly Link was creating modern fairy tales. Not the common story from the bad guys perspective, or with feminist values. Fairy tales as in stories where anything can happen, and that includes some dark, dangerous stuff. In this collection Link makes that even more connected, by using scenes from well known stories.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Tenth of December; Author: George Saunders; Genres: fiction; Review: Writers that are literary have stopped writing in the seventies and eighties boringly born of Joyce- moments of realization- genre. They have stories with robots, slaves, and mood altering chemicals! Beside that, I like that George Saunders is writing moral stories. We have a lot of books about the grayness of things, but we live in a world where a lot of folks are exploiting the gray, which is evil. Saunders points out truths about right and wrong that challenge us. In one story, "The Semplica Girls", a family struggles through credit card debt, wondering what the kids will think if they don't keep up with the Jones. When they remodel their yard, Saunders forces us back two terrifying steps and once admirable motives are reduced to banal evil.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sweetly (Fairytale Retellings, #2); Author: Jackson Pearce; Genres: young-adult, romance, mystery, thriller, crime, paranormal, fantasy, fiction; Review: Great action scenes. The characters are flat. I want to see the idea of moral responsibility examined a little more.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: An Abundance of Katherines; Author: John Green; Genres: romance, young-adult, fiction; Review: Everything here you would expect from John Green is here: witty dialogue, teenage romance, some smart kids. Sometimes the difference between popular and not popular is that popular people care about others enough to understand them. The book hints at this valuable lesson (especially for high school nerds, and I was one) but kind of throws it out with the ending. SPOILER I'd like TOC not to be a cheater. He doesn't need to be for the ending, it just makes it convenient and less complex than the whole dumper dumpee situation is. She should have dumped him because he wasn't interesting.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Courts of the Morning; Author: John Buchan; Genres: history, thriller, crime, biography, historical fiction, fiction, romance, mystery; Review: So the seeds of the British international thriller genre are here. There are great parts, but I couldn't get passed the idea of a civil war as a clever way to dispose of a bad man. Civil war costs too much.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: This Is How You Lose Her; Author: Junot Diaz; Genres: romance, fiction; Review: I saw Junot Diaz (which you should do, he's hilarious and deep) when he toured for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" and on that tour he said he was working on a manga-inspired novel which sounded pretty awesome to me. He also said he was done with short stories, which sounded pretty cool, because I'm prefer novels at a ten to one ratio over shorts. When this came out, I thought he lied. After I read this, I'm guessing his life has been total shit and these stories are all he pulled from the wreckage. It's not his previous work, and can serve as a lesson in how life lived poorly impacts art. (mostly negatively and some positively).; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1); Author: George R.R. Martin; Genres: history, romance, mystery, thriller, crime, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: I used to wonder, as I sadly tossed aside another fantasy that was terrible, why authors had such a hard time creating worlds like the multi-layered world that J. R. R. Tolkien had created. In "A Song of Ice and Fire" I found that. It's highly readable, the world is elaborated with a multiplicity and realism born of careful construction. One complaint would be that in terms of the big questions, the story moves slow. I've read 800 pages, but find no resolution. Of course, when the world is good, there is no hurry to leave it, but now I have to go get another book.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2); Author: George R.R. Martin; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: ** spoiler alert ** It's fun to read if you like fantasy. You've got the rebirth of dragons, the girl in a wild rugged group of scoff laws who passes as a boy to hide her noble origins and stuff like that. The problem I have is that George R. R. Martin isn't saying anything, or if he is, it's be smart, and be strong. Win. Jaime Lannister explains himself, saying essentially that he is violent and oppressive, and so are others. It seems to be a sound argument. Thus sexual abuse is rampant and unchecked, because in the author's mind, might (physical or mental) makes right. Nobody is more pathetic than the weak Lady Arryn, and Cersei's worst trait is the way her pride makes her stupid, not cruel. The book turns in on this though, because the reader reads to see the disadvantaged characters finally recognized, and to see justice finally delivered. However, don't hope for too much of that in this book- and I have every reason to believe I won't find it going forward.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Author: Frederick Douglass; Genres: history, young-adult, comics, graphic, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction; Review: Great stories. A thoughtful examination of slavery, and the hypocrisy and manipulation which maintained it. It should be required reading for every American.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4); Author: George R.R. Martin; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: George R. R. Martin closes this book with a two page personal note explaining why most of his best characters aren't in this book. If he knew that's how we (the readers) would feel, he should have fixed it. I skipped through a lot of it, because most of the narrating voices are from characters whom I'm not excited about. This book is missing Jon Snow, Bran Stark, Daenarys, and Tyrion. Instead you have an assortment of ironmen, Cersei, Jaime, Brienne, and Dornish characters who I never got that into. Don't read it, read a summary and skip to book five- or maybe just read the Arya chapters. Annie Dillard said you should always use your best stuff, that you should never save anything. This book is a poor example of that- Martin lost track of why we the readers, read his books- understandable with such an epic- but at some point elaboration of the world is unacceptable. I want the story (the restoration of house Stark).; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: The Perks of Being a Wallflower; Author: Stephen Chbosky; Genres: romance, young-adult, fiction; Review: A thoughtful story and a gripping read.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Where Do Presidents Come From?: And Other Presidential Stuff of Super Great Importance; Author: Michael Townsend; Genres: history, young-adult, comics, children, graphic, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: I'm not one to pick up a book that will teach me a lot of facts. This one however, was in comic book format, and interspliced all the important information between jokes about rabbits.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5); Author: George R.R. Martin; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: So if George R. R. Martin had done the opposite of what he did, and made the fourth and fifth book one book, it might have earned five stars. At what point did he get so far away from the characters worth caring about? Why does it have to take five hundred pages for things to actually happen? Too long. Too slow. He needed a no-man as an editor, someone who could tell him that endlessly elaborating his world is not a STORY.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2); Author: William Shakespeare; Genres: history, poetry, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: I got to watch a great live performance and started reading it, because I had no familiarity with the story. I found the total change of Prince Hal from skalwag to loyal brave son to be unbelievable. Shakespeare had to make him a good guy as he was the ancestor of the current king, but it's never great when a writer makes his characters unnatural for political expediency. The play's best part is the comedic relief and Hal's dark past, the drinking buddies and hooligan ensemble. Falstaff is hilarious. He reminds me of Chris Tucker's character from the Rush Hour series. An undercurrent might be the tension between the sensual life and that of duty. Ironically, the humor and fun in the scenes at the tavern seem to outshine the scenes of honor and chivalry that signal Hal's maturity. This might be my own personality, or maybe Shakespeare, a man who lived a life dedicated to fun, understood the responsibility of rulers, but did not envy it.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Wool (Wool, #1); Author: Hugh Howey; Genres: young-adult, thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: Great story. Same old dystopian themes.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: American Born Chinese; Author: Gene Luen Yang; Genres: history, young-adult, comics, children, paranormal, graphic, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: Fun story telling and art but the ending left me dissatisfied, like it was too short and didn't look long enough at the complicated questions it raised.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance; Author: Barack Obama; Genres: history, comics, graphic, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction; Review: Thoughtful stuff about the complicated questions of identity, race and change in the world.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Yellow Birds; Author: Kevin Powers; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction; Review: Good writing. Very much in the genre. Main new thing is it's in Iraq, not Nam or Germany.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Illusive (Illusive, #1); Author: Emily Lloyd-Jones; Genres: young-adult, thriller, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: Illusive has a lot of promise. A fun start. A cool X-men-esque premise. The characters don't come alive though, and good action scenes about persons I'm not sure I care about doesn't quite do it.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Run; Author: Ann Patchett; Genres: fiction; Review: I enjoyed reading this. The vignettes that relate the character's biographies to their worldviews are powerful. I found the plot to be hard to believe, and that led to questions about its presentation of race. I have heard people say that a white author writing about black people, especially in the voice of a black person, is inherently racist. I disagree. I think good literature has always been about understanding others. Along with that, some people would say any book about white people helping black people is paternalism. Again, if it was true (in the way that lit is true) I would disagree. This happens. It's a good thing. However, this book walks the line between paternalism and hope with a wavering tread. I can only hope its author is not drunk on the feel goodiness of the tale. Also, is the solution to our society's racism for white people to adopt black kids out of the ghetto? Ann Patchett has a talent for forgetting political ramifications and realities. It sure is nice to read books in which those things are all worked about by a couple acts of human kindness and understanding.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Screw The Galaxy (Hard Luck Hank, #1); Author: Steven Campbell; Genres: history, young-adult, children, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: Mutant Hank takes harder hits than any of R. Chandler's boys. Featuring a world as exuberantly diverse as Harry Potters or Hitchhikers, this is a fun read with an easy sense of humor. The story moves seamlessly from conflict to conflict. In the end its not really about anything important but its fun.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Mansfield Park; Author: Jane Austen; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: It's everything you'd expect from a Jane Austen novel. The moments of moment are not screams in the night, or blades flashing in the sun, but words and affections, and sensibilities. Whether or not to take a walk is a big question. All this is rendered with so much psychological and social depth and occasional humor that its worth it. Fanny is my least favorite Austen heroine yet. She never changes. She is very timid. And her and Austen's reaction to the bustle and boyish energy of the Price household could be filed under classism (I grew up in a house that felt like this and it never meant that we lacked for moral education). Also, I would have been just as happy if she had ended up with Crawford, how is not a drag. That was the thing that I had a hard time. It seemed that moral sensibility in the case of our heroine and her beloved, precluded charm and wit.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fudoki (Love/War/Death, #2); Author: Kij Johnson; Genres: history, young-adult, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: This story made me think about the nature and purpose of story, and while some of its conclusions are not new, they are stunning for how honestly they are won. An old lady tells a made up story about a cat. That turns into a woman. Why is this old lady telling cat stories? Fans of Kij Johnson's short stories may experience some small disappointment as they begin, as this starts exactly as one of her shorts, "The Cat Who Walked A Thousand Miles". I felt like I was reading something again, until the true scale of the tale unfolded.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Saga #1; Author: Brian K. Vaughan; Genres: romance, comics, paranormal, graphic, fantasy, fiction; Review: Infinite wonder and possibility like Harry Potter, exotic worlds like Star Wars. Comics always disappoint because you get less story per book but that's actually a compliment to them.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: All the Light We Cannot See; Author: Anthony Doerr; Genres: history, young-adult, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: Great characters. Love the portrayal of living in a fascist country, the radio whiz, the lockmaker, and the blind girl. Sometimes it gets a bit ponderous and philosophical with the prose, those sections are not my favorite.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Persuasion; Author: Jane Austen; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, romance, fiction; Review: At points I was on the verge of deciding that all Jane Austen novels are the same, and the plots and character relationships have a zillion paralells. However, Anne's father, whose name I will not write, lacking the proper training in the terming of British aristocracy, but it involves being a baronet, and Walter Elliot, is another character from the lady of Mansfield with her indolence, or the lady of Longbourne with her social gaffes. He is a peacock and a spendthrift, and his favorite daughter has the same tendencies. Anne has the misfortune to being the only person with sense and real feeling in the family (which is, in some way or another, the situation in every Austen novel). Anne Elliot is definitely one of the strongest of Austen's heroines. Best quote- the closest I have seen to explicit feminism in JA: "if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything." It's also pretty thorough revolutionary thought for someone so bent canonizing social mores.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Lila (Gilead, #3); Author: Marilynne Robinson; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: A powerful portrait of shame and its function and the difficulty in unloading its weight- interplay between Ezekiel passage and the nomadic eponymous Lila reverberates.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Old American; Author: Ernest Hebert; Genres: history, biography, historical fiction, fiction; Review: Pre-Revolution American Historical Fiction is something I enjoyed as a youngun so I'm predisposed to like it. This doesn't have a lot of action, and the plot meanders along with the perspective and meditations, called conjurings, of the books main character, Caucus-Meteor. His openness to all views, his continual ambition, and the power of his contemplation make him a memorable character. His world view is a challenge to me for its pliancy.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, #1); Author: Saladin Ahmed; Genres: history, young-adult, mystery, thriller, romance, crime, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: A highly readable adventure set in a fantastical world based more on Arabic history and Muslim theology. Saladin Ahmed succeeds in creating a magical system in which power has a source and cause. In its clarity of magical meaning, it contends with Ursula Le Guin's "Wizard of Earthsea" series, where power comes from the poetic, or scientific, ability to truly name things. In Ahmed's magical system, magic comes from either God, or the old gods. I am of course impressed by such a system as it is very much what I want to create in "Illumen's Children". Anyway, the book is fun, with a band of heroes- Raseed the holy dervish, Adoulla, the ghul hunter, Litaz the hot alchemist, a girl who turns into a lion that can shred spiritual evil, and Dawoud, the aging magician- fighting against ancient evil made flesh.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Linden Hills; Author: Gloria Naylor; Genres: history, romance, mystery, thriller, crime, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: The best characters, our tour guides through Linden Hills, don't get enough story. Lester aka Shit and White Willie are poets and proud of their identity and broke, and they are humorous, alternately spikey and affectionate with one another. Overall it is a rich in its examination of personhood, race, and the cost of upward mobility but the story can be turgid. The rest of the book cycles down the hill, like Dante touring hell, and it gets worse and worse. I found it all intriguing but was left with an unanswered question or two. If Naylor had let it go completely surreal, I could take the ubiquitous classism of the narrative as symbolic- but as the narrative is usually realistic, I have to question the truth of saying that all rich people have lost their souls. As a sometime poor, now lowerclass Philadelphian it's something I feel though. I really feel it. However, this story is a classic American tale (Great Gatsby)- the pursuit of wealth and the loss of all else. I guess the Greeks had Midas too. Sometimes I found the structure to be a collection of short stories, which were gripping, and thematically tied together, but not intrinsically connected. Finally, what was the meaning of the catfish heads? Please tell me.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Elements of Style; Author: William Strunk Jr.; Genres: non-fiction; Review: We teach grammar from massive textbooks. My apologies to those of you I made to suffer through those tomes. The little book is funnier and shorter.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Outliers: The Story of Success; Author: Malcolm Gladwell; Genres: history, non-fiction, biography, historical fiction; Review: If we read thoughtfully we will find the important lesson is that we are not responsible for our own success.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir; Author: Eddie Huang; Genres: history, non-fiction, biography, historical fiction; Review: This is a great read, alternately funny and real. The tale shows how difficult it is to be Asian in our country. It explains to me a lot of crime and anger that we see as a function of our country's larger fail to be an open table.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Shattered Pillars (Eternal Sky, #2); Author: Elizabeth Bear; Genres: history, paranormal, biography, historical fiction, fantasy, fiction; Review: I love the sweep and detail of the world and the cultures. The scenes are realized exquisitely. The characters and narration are serious, which is appropriate when an evil sorcerer is skinning people and trying to control the world, but I do wish I could feel a little more warmth toward the hero/ines of the book. I will read the third.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Lily Out of Bounds (Soccer Sisters #1); Author: Andrea Montalbano; Genres: poetry, children, young-adult, fiction; Review: This is a book about soccer written for eleven year old girls. I liked it a lot.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: The Stonekeeper (Amulet, #1); Author: Kazu Kibuishi; Genres: young-adult, mystery, thriller, comics, children, crime, paranormal, graphic, fantasy, fiction; Review: First longer/multiple sitdowns book my son and I have enjoyed together. Weird to read the dad's death at the beginning, but sort of establishes its intention to keep it real (can be cliche-y other places). The art and exhuberantly created world do a lot for this as does the massive cast of characters.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: The Cloud Searchers (Amulet, #3); Author: Kazu Kibuishi; Genres: young-adult, mystery, thriller, comics, children, crime, paranormal, graphic, fantasy, fiction; Review: This book had some Attack on Titan lite, the introduction of Leon Redbeard, a fox warrior with a broadsword, and talking trees. So nothing new, but still pretty new. We read most of it sitting on a bench on Benjamin Franklin Parkway.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Tangerine; Author: Edward Bloor; Genres: young-adult, thriller, children, crime, paranormal, fiction, fantasy, mystery; Review: I need to read more these days. This book was a welcome escape from the busyness of life- it made me think. It had a lot of soccer in it. This is why books are important. I need to read more these days.; Rating: 4.0/5.0 | goodreads |
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Title: Citizen Women's Eco-Drive Strap Watch With Black Dial; Brand: Citizen; Review: I bought this watch for my girlfriend, she likes leather instead of steel, so when she got the watch she is so happy. That's my purpose, to make her happy. The watch is very simple, but I call it classic, Citizen doesn't fail me~~ Will support in the future ~~~; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Calvin Klein Men's Classic Wool Suit; Brand: ; Review: Too large for Asian fitting~~~; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: adidas Originals SL Loop J Casual Running Shoe (Big Kid); Brand: ; Review: Though it's kids shoes, but suitable for my wife, it's pretty good~~; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Nautica Men's Striped Side-Vent Suit; Brand: ; Review: Too large for Asian fitting~~~; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Dr. Scholl's Shoes Men's Yellowstone; Brand: Dr. Scholl's Shoes; Review: good shoes, it's a good choice; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
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Title: AMERICAN ACTIVE Women's 12 Pack Sexy String Bikini Briefs; Brand: AMERICAN ACTIVE; Review: Different patterns then what is shown but good quality and comfortable.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dockers Men's Easy Khaki D1 Slim-Fit Flat-Front Pant; Brand: ; Review: Slim fit is REALLY slim and the material doesn't stretch at all. The price and material are good and if you're on the really skinny side, they'll probably work ok. I've gotten slim fit in many other brands that fit well on the body but have some give so you can move around in them.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Dockers Men's Slim Fit Stretch Signature Khaki Pant D1; Brand: ; Review: Good price and quality, but the slim fit were REALLY slim and the material doesn't stretch at all. So, squatting down isn't happening :0); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Match Men's Classic Straight Fit Casual Pants #8033; Brand: Match; Review: These were more like a slim fit and the classic khaki had a high sheen, gold color.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: PAUL JONES Men's Business Casual Long Sleeves Dress Shirts; Brand: ; Review: Good shirt and good price.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Dockers Men's Slim Fit Stretch Signature Khaki Pant D1; Brand: ; Review: Good price and quality, but the slim fit were REALLY slim and the material doesn't stretch at all. So, squatting down isn't happening :0); Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Beltox Fine Men's Dress Belt Leather Reversible 1.25" Wide Rotated Buckle Gift Box, Black/Brown, 34-39 in. (110cm); Brand: beltox fine; Review: Works well and good price. The material is almost like a plastic and the edges will peel off sometimes.; Rating: 3.0/5.0 | amazon_Clothing_Shoes_and_Jewelry |
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Title: Jellystone Park Texas Wine Country Camping Resort; City: Fredericksburg Texas; Review: Staff was very friendly. We stayed in the Sunday house. I don't recommend it for the price. However, the rest of the experience was fantastic! There are hourly activities inside and out. There is also a community wii with a few games, some pool tables, a small arcade, a big jumping pillow, and a sprinkler park. We were there on a bad weekend with rainy weather and a lot of our activities were cancelled, but with the additional inside activities, we still had a very good time.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Wingate by Wyndham San Angelo; City: San Angelo Texas; Review: Check in was very quick and painless. All of the staff was very friendly. Breakfast was not great, but it filled our bellies. The waffles were delicious, but the coffee left much to be desired. Our only real complaint was how noisy the hotel was. There didn't seem to be any insulation to drown out the sounds of other rooms. We were even at the end of the hall, but that did not seem to help. We were awakened by a late-night conversation where we could actually make out some of the words. They were not yelling or even talking very loudly, so you can imagine how thin the walls must be. Other than the noise, we enjoyed our stay here.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Best Western Brady Inn; City: Brady Texas; Review: This was a very quick trip. The room was clean. The lady at the desk was nice. Breakfast the next morning was decent. I enjoyed a southwest style omelette. I will stay here for any return trips to Brady.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Mountain Star Lodge and Hotel; City: Bee Cave Texas; Review: The hotel and room was clean. The furnishings were nice. The couple who runs the hotel is very friendly. On the downside, the walls are very thin. We could hear so much going on around us. We asked about breakfast at the time that it should've been closed, and he kept out what was left for a little bit longer for us. It wasn't much, so I can't comment on how good the breakfast actually is, but it was still very sweet that he extended the breakfast time for us.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Wyndham Garden Midland; City: Midland Texas; Review: The pool was nice and warm on the chilly January day. We had a nice time swimming. There is also a hot tub that wasn't too hot. The staff was always friendly and helpful. The room was clean. Excellent place to stay for the low cost of the room.; Rating: 5.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
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Title: Chooka Women's Herringbone Dual Buckle Rain Boot; Brand: ; Review: This is the second pair I order these boots before. I wore out the first pair.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Tommy Hilfiger Women's Ryann Rain Boot; Brand: ; Review: Tommy Hilfiger Women's Ryann Rain Boot, Black, 10 M US; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Steve Madden Women's Tsunamii Rain Boot; Brand: ; Review: I would buy these boots again. I really like rain boots; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fruit of the Loom Men's No Ride Up Boxer Brief Multipacks, Colors may vary; Brand: ; Review: I would order these again.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
Title: Fruit of the Loom Men's Tucked V-Neck T-Shirt; Brand: ; Review: I would order these again.; Rating: 4.0/5.0
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Title: Sanctuary Beach Resort; City: Marina California; Review: My fiance and I have stayed here A LOT. We used to stay here maybe 6 or more times a year. He even proposed to me on a stay at Sanctuary...that was our first less than stellar experience. They used to make us feel special every time we went there, offering a complimentary split of wine, checking to see if they could book reservations, etc. Just excellent. Well, THAT time, the trip was a lot different. Our room was filthy. The sliding door was damaged and it looked like the room had been dusted for finger prints. We notified the front desk and the manager wouldn't even come out to speak with us about it. He hid in the back office while the front desk person went back and forth. We were concerned the room had been broken into during someone else's stay and the back door clearly didn't shut. We got no where and were told nothing had happened. (fingerprints and filth were still everywhere). we left it at that because we wanted to enjoy our trip. I cleaned the room myself. The safe didn't work, which was a problem given our door closing issue. (did i mention no split of wine despite getting engaged?) Still had a great time because I was with the man I love. Well, we decided to give Sanctuary another try when we went back down to plan our wedding, thinking our last experience was a fluke. Even considered blocking rooms for our wedding. We booked an ocean front room, the most expensive room they have. The paint on the walls was dingy, the cupboard doors were hanging crooked on the hinges and didn't shut properly. The housekeeping staff kept taking off with our golf cart. For the money, it was not an acceptable stay. They clearly are not keeping up the property. This used to be a great place to stay, and being on the dunes right on the water is pretty amazing. But the condition of the rooms do not live up to the price to stay here. I'm pretty sad because this place meant so much to us as our romantic getaway.; Rating: 2.0/5.0
Title: Hotel Abrego; City: Monterey Monterey County California; Review: We were booked with another hotel but my husband got ill. Long story short, we arrived a day late and needed to find a new place to stay. We sat in a friends room and called around. We were out a lot of money from hotel #1 and had a tight budget. The dive motels were asking WAY too much. My husband called Abrego and explained our situation. The man at the desk gave us a deal of the lifetime. When we showed up, he upgraded us to the nicest room they had! It was a genuine act of kindness and I like that the hotel staff have the leeway to do that. The hotel is really really nice and within walking distance of some great night spots. The fireplace was lovely. Very new, clean and very well decorated. The bed was very comfortable. Staff were incredible throughout our stay. I will definitely stay here again!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Sanctuary Beach Resort; City: Marina California; Review: I dont know why we haven't given up on Sanctuary by now. We used to love this place. We stayed here again trying to finalize wedding plans. The staff were Completely unhelpful unless we wanted to have a reception at their hokey restaurant. The place isn't being well maintained especially for the price. We decided that we still wanted to stay here for our wedding because of it's sentimental value for us. We called to book and the woman on the phone quoted us MORE than the web pricing. She was rude and unpleasant. She didn't sound like she wanted our business. When my husband asked nicely if he could talk to the manager, she told us that he was unavailable and she didn't know when he would be available. Normally they discount for return customers. You would think that they would be a little friendlier to people who are getting married! Sheesh.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Coral Reef Inn Suites; City: Alameda California; Review: I stayed here with my husband for one night because we were hitting the town with friends and didn't want to drive. We got a suite for super cheap and that was our goal. For the price, it's definately not bad. View of the pond, very spacious and not too far from down town. The pool was actually pretty nice as well. Full kitchen. It's a bit rough around the edges and attracts some shady looking people. Not high end or classy but effective for a crash pad.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Forest Lodge; City: Carmel Monterey County California; Review: First, the staff are amazing!! They are so welcoming and helpful. We stayed in the Ocean Avenue room for 4 days for our Carmel wedding. I LOVE this room. Beautiful. Breakfast was brought to our room every morning. Hard boiled eggs, yogurt, fresh fruit, bagels and English muffin. (the eggs are very fresh...which makes a hard boiled egg harder to crack, but not complaining. I prefer fresh!) we picked up a bonfire kit which they sell in the main office. We had a large group of people so they gave us plenty of extra chairs. I recommend getting the kit, the fire starter they have works wonders and they've already thought of everything. More about the room. Spacious, clean, very well decorated. The fire place works wonderfully. I love the bathroom. Only downside were the noisy drunken neighbors in the Garden room. But that happens anywhere. My husband finally started applauding and they shut up. It was kind of funny! There is a church across the street, so church bells on Sunday, which I love! (not so loud as to be unpleasant.) within walking distance of everything. A little trek to the beach, so wear good shoes. One of the BEST places to stay in Carmel. On check out, the staff asked us to stay at the Lamplighter property next time so that they could see us more on our next stay! (Forest Lodge property is away from the office site). They were seriously so nice and friendly. They have a wine and cheese hour as well, but we skipped it because we had so many wedding events. But next time we will check it out. Can't say enough good things about this place!; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: The Greens Hotel; City: Sacramento California; Review: I stayed here with my husband for one night because I had a licensing exam in Sac early in the morning. A friend of mine had a modeling shoot at the hotel and said it seemed cool. It was dirt cheap, which I found odd because the pictures looked nice. Down to brass tacks. The woman in the room next to us was prostituting. No joke and no question about it. I don't think she was the only one, but the only one I know for sure. It's in a rough part of town. Lots of homeless people. No one was around at check out. We called the front desk cell number. We were told to leave the key locked in our room. A homeless man tried to get us to leave the key with him. The room itself wasn't as nice as the pictures and very very dimmly lit. Not sure I would want to see the room in bright light. Wouldn't stay here again. NO CLUE how this was on some top 10 Sacramento hotel list.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Agriturismo La Striscia; City: Arezzo Province of Arezzo Tuscany; Review: My friend rented out the property for a wedding. We all stayed here for a week. The rooms and property are beautiful. The fire at night was perfect. We drank plenty of wine and good food. Breakfast was prepared every morning. The walk into Arrezzo was lovely. Only a short train trip into Florence. I didnt want to leave.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Garberville Motel; City: Garberville Humboldt County California; Review: I stayed here one night with my husband, son and our small dog on our way north. Plus is that it is pet friendly. The people who run this establishment are very nice. The motel is sketch, but we were looking for a room that takes dogs very late at night, so we took what we could get. If you don't expect much, you won't be dissapointed. It's a room, not a vacation destination. The bathroom was clean, but the shower had a ridiculously low ceiling, I'm 5'-7" and I nearly had to duck. My husband is 6'-4" and I don't know how he managed in that thing.; Rating: 1.0/5.0
Title: Best Western Plus Bayshore Inn; City: Eureka Humboldt County California; Review: I am currently staying here with my husband, son and our dog. We drove into town looking for a pet friendly hotel that wasn't a complete dive. We were getting pretty desperate because everything seemed booked up, then we found this motel. Um, wow. I've always hated Best Westerns, so I am totally surprised right now. This place has a jacuzzi tub in the corner, the beds are new and comfortable. Everything looks newly remodeled. They even have us a doggie meal box for our dog with food, bowl, water, and treats. I only glimpsed the pool, but it looks inviting. I am super super pleased! Everywhere that was booked solid looked sooo seedy in comparison and we kept driving into the nice part of town for this pleasant surprise! If you have to spend the night in Eureka, this is the place! (Sorry Eureka, you're kinda a dump these days.); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Villa la Quercia; City: Positano Amalfi Coast Province of Salerno Campania; Review: This B&B is above Positano in Nocelle, meaning WAY BETTER views. Another plus is that it is the first bus stop into town, so you can get a seat... Important in Italy. The bus is about 20 minutes into town. but if you want to hop on the SITA bus to explore Amalfi or another nearby town, that stop is near the tabbachi at the top of town. the SITA buses are super comfy tour style buses!!! if touve got time, enjoy a ride! Getting to the B&B, we took the SITA bus from the train station to Positano, then the local bus from Positano to Nocelle. This saved us about 90 euros each way in cab fare. Pack light if you don't want to pay steep can fares. The SITA bus has storage under the bus for luggage, but the local buses are tiny and packed. It was an adventure cramming our luggage on that bus! There are a lot of steps to the hotel, but it didn't bother me even 4 months pregnant. There is wifi in the dining area, invaluable during a month long stay in Italy! The breakfast was very good considering Italians do not do American breakfasts. Cereal, muesli, pastries, yogurt and orange juice. They also make a mean cappuccino (well, my husband's looked beautiful...no caffeine for pregnant women.) the room was kept very clean and the staff were incredibly helpful and friendly. We booked this B&B through the AirBNB site, so we didn't have booking issues like other people have mentioned. The place is downright cheap compared to places in Positano, with an obviously cleaner establishment, quieter surroundings and far superior views. Incredibly romantic! Do take a day trip into Capri, well worth it. I even enjoyed the hyped-up blue grotto. (If the boat guy lets you swim inside the grotto, he'll try and demand another 10 euros afterwards, totally over the top because you will already be charged a small fortune. Do the swim, say nope to the suggested tip.); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Seccy Hotel Boutique; City: Fiumicino Province of Rome Lazio; Review: My husband and I booked a night last minute after a connecting flight from sicily to Rome changed at the last minute of our month long trip. This was the ONLY hotel without last minute rate hikes. We actually got a great deal on our room. Call the hotel for their car service from the airport. It's $20euros from the airport and $15euros to the airport... In a new black Mercedes. Taxis are 40-50 euros. The hotel is clean, roomie, near great restaurants and their free breakfast was the first time I saw bacon in a month of travel. This is the perfect hotel for a one nighter in or out of the Rome airport. Not a good hotel for seeing Roman sights though. (If you want to see Rome, rent a villa or apartment near Appia Antica and use the bus/metro to get to the different sights using a Romapass...will save you hundreds if you do your homework and Rome's public transportation is great.); Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Mammoth Campground; City: Yellowstone National Park Wyoming; Review: We went camping in Yellowstone and my cousin was convinced that we could show up and find a spot at any hour if the day. This is not so, get there early! This holds true every day of the week. Be prepared for rain and unpredictable weather, even in August. The campsite is right along a busy road and big rigs go by in the middle of the night. The bathrooms are clean and very pleasant, with an outlet for cell phone charging. There's very little cover at the campsites...the terrain looks like the Nevada high desert. There's a certain romanticism about the bleak surroundings. It's a very good spot for checking out all of the hot springs, thermal pools, etc. (the east side of the park is still bleak from that horrible forest fire) stick to the west side of the park. There is a hot springs river very close by that is "safe" to swim in...so long as you don't get your head under...because you can get Legionnaires disease. We skipped that. Mammoth hot springs are fantastic. Wildlife is everywhere.; Rating: 3.0/5.0
Title: Slough Creek Campground; City: Yellowstone National Park Wyoming; Review: This campground is a little north and east of all of the sites, but this is a fantastic spot that is off the main Yellowstone roads. Most camp spots have plenty of shade. Makes for an amazing Yellowstone experience. Don't be surprised if bison jump out in front of your car in this area. You'll be in the heart of all of the wildlife. Get here really early, or even the night before to scout out a spot. Ask people when they plan to leave and then come back. There are very few spots, no guarantees and people go to great lengths to nab a spot.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Holiday Inn Express Hotel Suites El Dorado Hills; City: El Dorado Hills California; Review: My husband has to work for 3 weeks in Shingle Springs. He wanted our 9 month old and I to join him, so it was going to be quite the trip! I wanted a place with a comfortable bed...because 3 weeks is a long time to be uncomfortable. I wasn't there for check-in, so I can't comment on the process. But when we had to change our reservations (my husband has to be in Silicon Valley for 3 days before we go back up), it wasn't a problem at all! (We'll be back up Wednesday for another 2 plus weeks.) Our room was a standard king on the 3rd floor with views of the pool. Everything was clean! Even the inside of the microwave. The free breakfast was pretty good as far as free breakfasts go. My husband didn't like it that much, but it's good as far as hotel continental fare goes. Housekeeping did a really good job each day. They forgot to replace the liner for the ice bucket, but that was it. AND they even clean the remote. (My husband had wrapped it in plastic because our baby kept trying to grab it and he got eeked out. Housekeeping had to take the bag off to clean the remote!!!! I'm in love with their housekeeping for that!) the bed is very very comfortable. We slept very well. We had no problems with noise from neighbors or outdoors. The elevator is very fast. The hotel attracts an older crowd...and they don't have elevator etiquette. They rush the door as it opens to get on before people inside can get out. Restaurants nearby are good and convenient. I had to check out when my husband was working, which is tough with a baby in tow. Hotel Staff brought a cart to my room. And the man helping me ran back to my room for my cell phone and went through the room and found every item that I forgot. Then I really really had to insist on giving him a tip, he was really a gentleman and incredibly gracious. The staff, housekeeping and overall experience was great! I was even offered a high chair by staff during breakfast. (There was one rude woman on Monday working the breakfast station, but I didn't have to deal with her. She was being rude to other guests and didn't seem to want to work. But I doubt that they keep people with that kind of attitude on for very long.) Looking forward to coming back later this week! I only wish that they had room service.; Rating: 5.0/5.0
Title: Holiday Inn Anaheim Resort Area; City: Anaheim California; Review: We travel a lot for my husband's work and often stay at IHG hotels. This one is pretty shabby and sad. Housekeeping fails to replace toilet paper and tissue. When you get back to your room at midnight, you will have to call front desk repeatedly to get a hold of anyone. Then they will take 20 minutes to get your toilet paper...because, you know, they're so busy at midnight. Skip the suites and get a standard room. The standards have better views, and I'm pretty sure (or hopeful) that they focus their upkeep on the standard rooms which are popular with Disney visitors. The suite bathrooms only have shower stalls, no tubs. The shower stall is weirdly laid out and has no door. There is no fan or ventilation in the bathroom either. Our faucet leaked at the base, spraying over the counter. The operation manager lied to my husband during check out about their ability to use one time issued corporate credit cards. We're business travelers and IHG elite members, the corporate card is pretty standard. Finally the manager admitted that they just didn't like using these cards because they are charged more by the credit card companies. It made check out this ridiculously long process after a long week at work. No way to treat a guest, in my opinion. We won't be returning to this hotel. There are so many better choices in the area.; Rating: 2.0/5.0 | hotelrec |
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