Cold Hard Facts Of Life, The/Soul Of A Convict - Porter Wagoner

Advantages: An interesting case, fascinating look into Victorian society
Disadvantages: Quite boring, no characterisation, too much like a text book

...Victorian life. The trouble was, I just couldn't engage with it as much as I would have liked. If I had picked it up and flicked through to sample the style of writing, I probably wouldn't have gone any further in reading this book. However, I found I had to read on and find out more about the facts. I got about half way through the book before my dad told me he had read it and that I wouldn't find the answers I was looking for. A disappointment for sure, but I felt that I needed to see what conclusions were drawn. The most disconcerting aspects of this book are the lack of personalities, the cold hard facts are great but I felt it lacked something to make it really compelling reading. There are lots of details about, for example, what Charles Dickens thought of it all at the time and what the newspapers wrote as well as extracts from... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful Upbeat Ballad , Good Voices , Different
Disadvantages: None

...Girls Aloud are a British Girl band consisting of Nadine Coyle , Cheryl Cole , Kimberly Walsh , Sarah Harding and Nicola Roberts. Girls Aloud were formed on the reality television show Popstars : The Rivals in 2002. Since then , they have become a huge success. To date they have had eighteen top ten singles , including three number ones. Their style of music consists of pop and electro pop. Life Got Cold was Girls Aloud's third single. The song was released in the United Kingdom on August 18th 2003. Life Got Cold comes under the pop rock and ballad genres. The length of the song is three minutes and fifty five seconds. Life Got Cold reached number three in the British Single Chart. After Girls Aloud's first two hits ; Sound Of The Underground and No Good Advice , Life Got Cold let us see the more chilled out side of Girls Aloud. I... Read review

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Advantages: GOOD CLEAN HUMOUR
Disadvantages: NONE

...OH MR PORTER Director: Marcel Varnel Writers: Frank Launder and J.O.C. Orton Starring Moore marriott and graham moffatt The film starts with Will as a wheel tapper at the local train station, and he is asked "why he taps wheels" to which he replies "if theres a clang the wheels there, if theres no clang the trains left"! He has had every job there is, and he's useless at them all. So his sister threatens her husband that he will have to come and live with THEM if he's not found a suitable job. His brother in law, fearing hell never ever have a sock to call his own again, finds Will a job as a station master at Buggleskelly in Northern Ireland. Will finally arrives at Buggleskelly and here he meets his 2 long standing comedic friends albert andJeremiah Harbottle. There are various funnies along the way but basically the plot... Read review

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