Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John - Peter Case

NOW let us begin....

Advantages: Effortless read - easy on the eye - good value
Disadvantages: It isn't the Times Literary Supplement

. ~ SHOPPING STAR STYLE ~ I love this page as it shows 6 or 7 designer label products alongside almost identical high street versions, available at a fraction of the price. In most cases it is impossible to tell the two apart. ~ NOW TRAVEL ~ Double page spread on a specific resort or city. It details locations, nightlife, eating and drinking, how to get there and why you should go. Informative but a little short - maybe I'm being unfair, as they do not claim to be a travel magazine. ~ NOW MIND & BODY ~ Several pages on the latest health scares, the most recent diets, latest wonder products and miracles foods. There is also a problem page from a Dr Mark Atkinson (a natural health expert) offering alternative solutions and traditional remedies to common ailments. This is usually informative and interesting. It continues with a double ...

Bollinger28 14.04.2004 (10.11.2005) · Read full review
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John the Entertaining

Advantages: Very emotional writing
Disadvantages: Quite slow paced

Up until now, I'd only ever heard of ''John the Revelator'' as a song. Judging from the several mentions of the song in the story and given that author Peter Murphy works in the music press, I suspect that's where the title of this novel came from as well. How much I enjoy the song depends on which version of it I hear, but with no such concerns with the book, I was able to enjoy it fully without worrying if someone had done a better version elsewhere that I was missing out on. John Devine is a teenager stuck in a small Irish town with a single mother, no real friends and a rather worrying fascination for bodily parasites, mostly intestinal worms. His only human contact is with his mother Lily, Mrs Nagle, an elderly neighbour and Harry Farrell, a local jack-of-all-trades. His only break from the house and from school is Sunday Mass. Not ...

Soho_Black 06.08.2009 · Read full review
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Great US Crime Drama (Cold Case)

Advantages: Different from other US crime dramas
Disadvantages: None

I'm a bit of a US crime drama addict, I love watching CSI, Bones, and most recently Cold Case. Cold Case started in 2003 some its a bit of a late find for me, but thanks to good old sky repeating everything about a million times so I am slowly catching up on the missed episodes. Basically Cold Case is all bout cases that have never been solved (they went cold), some of these could be 50 years old and some could be a few years old, they all tend to be a bout either missing people or murder. The team (mainly Lilly Rush, Scotty Valens, Lt. John Stillman, Will Jeffries & Nick Vera) open the old case files (usually a family member remembers something important or a new bit of evidence comes to light) and start re interviewing the old suspects and witnesses etc, this usually stirs up old feelings amongst the various parties involved ...

soutram 25.06.2009 · Read full review
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