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This is quite possibly the worst book I’ve ever read. A good friend of mine recommended it to me and I kept reading expecting something more… It just seemed to keep going on without any real purpose.
Viking Professional VCBB536Lx 36

J D Salinger’s best effort details the thoughts of a seventeen year old boy as he faces the hypocrisy of the adult world with a youthful mind and eye. A classical look at the age old problem of growing to adulthood, a perfect metaphor for the modern world in general.
Well written and told in the first person using Caulfield Holden’s own dialogue this novel should be read by everyone.
2x Digital Telephoto Professional

The handle with the triggers is so poorly designed. I called Hoover to order a replacement since the original one didn’t work. The replacement was just as bad. The machine bottom with the brushes actually looks like it would work great if you can get past attaching the handle. I consider myself very talented when it comes to fixing and building things. I can say the the design of the handle and how the triggers work is horrible. Perhaps you’ll have better luck.
3x Digital Telephoto Professional

I’m already an experienced admin and I picked up the book for review before I took my exam.

The book is misleading in a few areas and contains several pages of command output or config files per chapter that are completely un-necessary. They should’ve been truncated or the reader should’ve been encouraged to investigate the commands themselves.

This book is also out of date as the current exam is for SLES 10, rather than 9.
Novell Certified Linux Professional

Very nice addition to my garmin gps. Small enough to fit almost anywhere in your vehicle, yet big enough to firmly hold the unit.
2x Digital Telephoto Professional

Works just as well as the super expensive cables (which I read previously in another review). Even costa bout 1/10 what WalMart wants for a similar cable.
Professional Snap On Lens

Despite several thousand positive reviews, this carpet cleaner was HORRIBLE. I read the owner’s manual as everyone suggested before using it but it was to no avail. The cleaner itself was so light it didn’t make a dent in the sections of my carpet I was trying to clean – the carpet looked just as stained as it was before after 2 separate runs in the pattern recommended in the owner’s manual.

The handle of the cleaner is jiggly – it doesn’t lock in place when you put the cleaner upright and ‘lock’ it into place – overall cheaply made product.

The cleaner does NOT auto-rinse the carpets and the water tank is ridiculously hard to empty to do the second rinse run as the owners manual suggests you may want to try. In fact, it never truly empties – there is always a bit of water left in the tank which could lead to mildew problems. The cleaner left a ton of soapy water in my carpet that did not dry for FIVE DAYS because no mater how many times I ran the cleaner over the area, minimal water was sucked up into the tank! I had to call out a professional steam cleaning service to clean my carpets!!

Horrible, horrible product. I shipped it back for a full refund just 3 days later.
2x Digital Telephoto Professional

I first saw this on a shelf a couple years back and was intrigued by it but hadn’t picked it up to read it until my 8 year old insisted that it was an awesome story and that I’d love it. So, with him continually asking how I liked it, I read Artemis Fowl.

When asked by my wife about the plot, my best quick answer was that it is sort of an “evil Richie Rich carrying out a dastardly scheme against the world of fairies.” (For those unfamiliar with Richie Rich, he’s the super rich kid with tons of fun gadgets and crazy adventures to save his family/friends/world). In this case, the rich kid is 12-year-old Artemis Fowl, and his motives are less altruistic.

Style
The writing was well done. It was written very simply and straightforward which was good considering the audience. It was something that a young reader could pick up and push through without getting bogged down by the language. The writing and dialog was natural and flowed well. Overall, very nice.

I have only 2 gripes about the writing itself:
1. Numerical consistency. Specifically, the phrasing “[something happened:] in as many [amount of time:].” You’ve likely heard this phrase before…along the lines of “He fell on his butt three times in as many seconds.” Which means he fell on his butt 3 times in 3 seconds. Colfer uses this phrasing enough that it got distracting to me, especially the times when he used it without a good frame of reference or without numbers. I don’t have the text with me to provide an exact example…but the memory I have is something like “he passed out again in as many minutes.” The numerical reference “again” isn’t really concrete (can be alluded to as it being 2 since it’s the second time) and the timeframe mentioned didn’t fit based on everything that happened in between.
2. Swearing. This is a book presumably for an audience of young kids. Through the first ~2/3 of the book, the author introduced a fairy swear word and used it a handful of times. The word itself is meaningless an
Professional PRO 72 Super

Bought several of these work great in my camera,Glad I bought them the extra memory comes in handy
Astro Pneumatic 1441 Professional

My daughter’s multiple readings of the “Conversations with God” series was and is a major component and ally in what will definitely be her life-long struggle to “not pick up” drugs or alcohol. Who knows what may happen next but she has been sober for four years, and the series has visibly more than once rescued and maintained her sobriety. There will always be a copy for her in my house. She often gives hers to addicts she feels are trying to stop their habits.

I have a little problem with some of the author’s statements and wonder if sometimes he confused his own thoughts with statements from his conversations. For what the series has done for my daughter, however, this “minor disagreement” does not matter at all.
2x Digital Telephoto Professional