My World [Digipak] - Lee Fields & The Expressions

Advantages: A selection of some of the best stories.
Disadvantages: None!!!

...If having practically every Horrid Henry book out, my daughter also insisted that she purchase one of the compilation books, I would have moaned if it hadn?t been the fact she had saved her pocket money for it! The book I will review is - ?Horrid Henry rules the world - ten favourite stories? For anyone unfamiliar with this particular character, Horrid Henry is the creation of author Francesca Simon, who has become somewhat of a god in my daughters eyes, even going as far as writing to her as part of her English coursework through school. Henry is as his name suggests, horrid! He is the eldest of two sons, he is around 10 years old and has a younger brother Perfect Peter, who is around 5 years old. Henry spends his whole time trying to be mean to his little brother, whilst getting through his school day as imaginatively as... Read review

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Advantages: It tries to bring a little known hero to light.
Disadvantages: It's hackneyed in all respects.

...-mates when he gets into college, as well as facing open hostility from Southern colleges at games and being treated differently to his Caucasian colleagues when on tour. But of course he beats the odds to become a star on the field, as well as winning the hand of winsome co-ed Sarah and facing private tragedy. Despite its credentials as a true story, it feels hackneyed. This is in part due to the characterisation that posits Davis as an almost saintly figure who just wants to go out and play sports for the honour of his school and family. He shows no interest in the civil rights movement that wants to co-opt him or the fame and fortune the sport could offer him. Ben Schwartzwalder comes across as a gruff counterpoint to the superstar in the making whose own deeply ingrained beliefs about how the world works are challenged by a man whose talent... Read review

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Advantages: The service
Disadvantages: The timetable (at times)

...People who drive automatically assume that travelling by public transport is HORRID. It takes longer, it's probably more expensive, you have to sit with (get spoken at by) people you don't know and, very quickly, don't like, it's inconvenient?it has, in short, nothing to recommend it. Those of us who don't drive are intrinsically more tolerant of all of the above. We have to be. That doesn?t mean that we aren't fair-minded and capable of writing a critical review when we get rubbish service. In this instance it is fair-mindedness that inspires me to write a review about un-rubbish service. Looking up National Express coaches on the site, I discover that they are not exactly flavour of the month. My experience of them has always been pretty good ? with the exception of the one case where I was just going down with the Kathmandu... Read review

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