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Wanna have even more FUN with loved ones? Wanna spend more time with someone, but can’t get past awkward conversations? Wanna stream movies and TV shows to your TV, as you like? Turn on the wii, baby (& get Netflix)! From canoeing with family members, to swordfighting with friends, to cow-racing with acquaintances, to watching old episodes of Fraggle Rock, wii will have you laughing, rowing, slashing, lassoing (a la Indy!), and yes, now watching for as long as you can stand it! We’ve had our wii about six months, and it just got better! We just started our Netflix subscription a few weeks ago, and we love that too! With a Netflix subscription that includes the ability to stream, if you’ve got an internet connection to your house, you can watch any one of TONS of movies and TV shows (stuff you can’t get on OnDemand!) My beau was especially excited about the 21 Jump Street Episodes Be prepared to spend more than just the purchase price for the wii – there are lots of fun extras that you kinda need, extra wii-motes and nun-chucks, in addition to the games (tip: always read the reviews on the games, I’ve bought a doozey or two, & if i had read the reviews here on amazon, I would have saved my $$ for a better game). But, if you have kids or you are even just a couple who goes out a lot, the wii (& now, netflix) may save you some money in the end, and you’ll spend more time together, doing fun stuff. And after all, isn’t that what life’s all about?

Thanks to wii and netflix, we eat at home more (saves money, gas, & calories); watch fewer commercials (they’re bad for the psyche AND the wallet!); are more active with our entertainment; spend more time with family & friends; spend less time aimlessly channel-surfing; enjoy more varieties of entertainment, like documentaries, old TV shows, and musician stuff; are more conservative with spending $7-15 per person to see a movie in the theatres (that we hopefully will enjoy!); and actually look forward to spending time at ho
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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

If you like fantasy, you would love Artemis Fowl because it takes
place in Dublin, Ireland and has to do with breaking the barrier
between faeries and humans. Instead of faeries being the average
old fashioned kind, faeries live underground after we won the
“Eternal War”. The LEP(lower elements police) actually are
hundreds of years ahead of us and have evolved into a high tech
civilization. Artemis Fowl captures an LEP officer named Holly
Short with help from his bodyguard, Butler. Then the LEP try to get
Holly back. Artemis’s intention is to not hurt Holly but to trade
her for gold. The LEP decides to kill Artemis in many ways. Read
to see if Artemis survives!

I recommend this book to solo readers from eight to eighty. This book is
about a battle between faeries and humans but no one dies or gets hurt.
Artemis Fowl is on audio books, hardback and paperback. The best
feature is you have a code to crack on the bottom that is related to the
code in the book. This is the first in a fantasy series and you should
read Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident next.

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What an awful book. Written in 1951, this book originally sparked great controversy with its mature themes focusing on the teenage angst, loneliness and rebellion of the protagonist Holden Caulfield. I guess its like a really bad version of James Dean’s classic Rebel Without a Cause. Caulfield is the archetype of an underachiever. Today kids are reading about the latest sluggard – Greg Heffley from The Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The characters Greg and Holden have a lot in common.

Catcher in the Rye follows the life of Holden Caulfield for a few days after being expelled from Pencey prep school as he returns home to New York City and contemplates life. Although, Caulfield does little contemplation and spends most of his time whining and complaining about everyone and everything. He sees the negative in everything (except his little sister) and makes one bad and offensive decision after another for almost 300 pages of misery. The only value I can find in reading this book today is to use Holden Caulfield as an example of what NOT to be – lazy, negative, and uninspired. Unfortunately the latest version of Holden Caulfield appears to be as popular with readers today as Catcher in the Rye was fifty years ago. When are we going to wake up and stop celebrating negative characters like Holden and Greg?
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I have fine, thick shoulder length hair and it took me nearly a whole bottle to figure out how much production to utilize – anyplace from 9 to 12 tickers for all my hair. I like the fact that my hair is softer, that first I don’t ask to habituate any other production in my hair (mousse, styling spray, etc). I can now either dry my hair all with a blow drier or merely dry the crest and let the ease dry naturally. So erst dry brush it out with a sus scrofas hair brushing. My terminals don’t have the dry crisp look to them when I habituate Steatocystoma and I don’t have fidgety scalp.

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I very much enjoyed reading this book but in the end I cannot give it a five-star review. In my opinion, Stockett did a marvelous job creating the main characters, who leap off the page and convey so much warmth and humanity. They are layered and interesting, and their relationships have the ring of truth. And though the author makes a few small historical errors, overall her portrayal of Mississippi in the early 1960s is very convincing, with its bizarre social rules and deep-seated hypocrisy. The book is a page-turner and, mostly, a delight.

But several aspects of the novel don’t work for me at all, and lessen the book’s impact quite a bit.

For one, I simply cannot buy that Minny, for ages, pretty much got away with the so-called Terrible Awful, which the despicable Hilly knew about from the get-go. That is wholly inconsistent with the world as it is depicted, in which whites cruelly punish blacks for small, even imagined slights. Yet we are to believe that powerful, vindictive, take-no-prisoners Hilly was satisfied merely to malign Minny’s reputation after such a mind-boggling insult? I don’t buy it. In fact, the entire pie storyline struck me as a contrivance so the book would include a shocking element to get readers buzzing.

I was also disappointed with the Stuart / Miss Skeeter love affair, such as it was. I kept being told how desirable Skeeter found Stuart, even after his appalling behavior the first time they meet, but why? He comes off as a privileged narcisstic boor who, by the way, drinks too much. Finally, Skeeter seems to recognize that he’s not worthy of her attention, and it’s a rewarding twist when we learn that Skeeter’s mother actually is not that keen on him, either. Great! So why, then, does Skeeter say yes to his eventual marriage proposal? And why does her mother regret that Stuart will not be her son-in-law? Why isn’t Skeeter, who we see has backbone, the one to walk away? That’s not the Skeeter we’ve gotten to know, and I
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Okeh, what do you get when you cross Monty Python with Borscht Belt comedians? You get “A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Assembly”. I have never considered the manoeuvre so I can not compare, but this moving picture show is one of my all time favourites. I originally considered this flick as a fry back in the 60s. When I re-watched it in the 80s I was struck by some real Pythonish episodes like the Gladiator instructing a scholarly person the proper means to kill slaves with a ball and chain. The British body fluid is obviously the piece of work of Director Richard Lester who created “A Hard Days Night “. I can not assist but think that the members of Monty Python were inhaled more than at one time by this one. One of the funniest motion picture shows e’er and just seek to get the song “Comedy Tonight” out of your head! .

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As an experienced Oracle DBA, I wanted a nice text that covers Linux specifics to Oracle 10g. This book is okay not perfect but the only real Oracle 10g for Linux book on the market.

Good
1. RAC coverage is decent
2. Linux tuning for Oracle is nice

Bad
1. Data Guard coverage is very weak
2. No workarounds for installation issues with Linux and Oracle

So I give it 3 stars because its not bad but not great. I hope that the other Linux for Oracle RAC book that comes out next year is better.
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Here is my Kindle hard sell–
Your Kindle books can’t get lost! Amazon stores your books for you or you can put it on a USUB. You can insure it.You can buy a book at 2 in the morning and read it in 3 seconds. If you like serial mysteries, fantasy and thrillers this is a HUGE selling point. FREE SHIPPING! You can carry tons of your favorite books on it all the time. It has a dictionary built in and you can highlight a word and have the definition in 1 second.
You can use it to email and take notes in your books. You can put audio-books on it. It can “read” regular books to you. You can make the font any size you want! When you are in public, not a soul can see what you are reading–or how tacky the cover is . It is a great little piece of technology that takes about 2 seconds to get used to. You can cover it with a Gelaskin and make it cute.
You can still buy books, go to the library and cruise bookstores–I still do. Amazon doesn’t make you sign away your rights to buy paper books. My only complaint is I can’t use it in the bath!
Unless books are sentimental/hard to fine/out of print I try to recycle them–via the Goodwill or the used bookstore. I read excessively(10+ books a month) and would be buried in books and dust by now. LOL (not to say I don’t have/read traditional books. We have bookcases in every room too)
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