Gift Pack - Blur

Gifted!

Advantages: Just brilliant in every way
Disadvantages: None

a joy to read from start to finish, and really had me sitting and thinking as I turned the final few pages. It is really a moral story, with a bit of magic thrown in to cheer it up, but come the ending everything comes together in a quite shocking ending which really made me sit up and reread what I had just read! Ahern seems to have the ability to create a magical world on paper which you can visualise yourself so deeply that you are thrown so deeply into the story, you want to keep reading right until the end all in one go! The shiny snowflake cover allows this book to be a great Christmas gift as well as a book that is going to be great to bring out for Christmas again and again. I borrowed by copy from the library but will getting myself a copy as soon as its out in paperback. Highly recommended, I absolutely loved it - this is one book ...

mummy2harry 15.11.2008 · Read full review
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SSX Blur

Advantages: Great control. Good graphics. Innovative soundtrack. Longevity.
Disadvantages: Fiendishly difficult. Less character customization than before.

SSX Blur is the fifth incarnation of the classic snowboarding series from Electronic Arts (EA). Previous versions on other consoles such as the PS2 and Xbox were huge successes thanks to their extravagant graphics, pulsating soundtrack, vast array of tricks, challenges and extras and great modes of play such as Career and Multi-player. With the Wii version, EA have seen fit to radically overhaul the control system, so much so that it seems the Wii's revolutionary controllers have been invented solely for the purpose of playing this game. They're not of course but the Wii's nunchuck and wii-mote fit this style of game perfectly. Playing PS2 or Xbox games on the type of controller that comes with those systems, a lot of players tend to move the controller as well in an effort to turn the skier around an almost-impossible corner (well ...

4ku-Papa 04.01.2008 · Read full review
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Blur and the Rest

Advantages: The album
Disadvantages: None, all songs are good

Blur have been around for the best part of ten years now, and have had six albums (I think!) with their greatest hits being the seventh. The normal edition has eighteen hits, and the special edition having the same, plus a CD with a few live tracks on it. The album kicks off with the yearning Beetlebum, followed by the energetic Song 2, which does have slightly strange lyrics. This is one of the songs, along with Nirvana?s "Smells Like Teen Spirit", which gets played in some clubs as closing time draws near, and it allows you to completely lose yourself in the chorus, as you crash into everybody near you! Coffee and TV is a hit from ‘13? which sees Blur getting slightly more Indie like, and so not close to Britpop like "Country House" is. Parklife, Girls and Boys and End of a Century come from the massive album ‘Parklife ...

danradders 29.12.2000 · Read full review
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