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This book came to me in much better condition that it was stated. It did take the full 14 days to get to me but that is what it said it was going take. Guess I was getting spoiled by some of the others who sent the item so quickly. Would order from them again.
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This steam cleaner is easy to use and does a great job! My 15 year old and 22 year old daughters have also used it. It’s quick to set up and I often run it without the cleaning solution and still have great results. This is a must have for anyone who has pets. My next goal is to learn to use the hand attachment to do stairs and furniture.

I have a Kirby too, but it is amazing the amount of dirt that it misses. Even the carpet shampoo attachment on that does not do as well as this cleaner.

I hate housework, but I love this SteamVac! A great price too, compared to what I have seen in the stores… It’s already paid for itself, as I was getting desperate about my rugs and wanting to rip them up. My 10 year old rugs have never looked so good!
Violin Method Volume 2

Andre Rieu is always excellent in music and this DVD reafirms this. But this time his selection of titles is too much out of his usual. That can be good or not. As long as many people enjoy it, that is good, that’s what Andre is about. Although, I can understand the lower ratings some people have given this DVD. I too, believe this isn’t measuring up at all to “The Homecoming” or “100 years of Straus”. I will confess, if I saw this ahead of time I wouldn’t have boughten it. It seems Andre is too concerned with ‘theatrics’ and is vearing to much from his ‘gift’ of music. This is too much like as circus show. Can’t blame Andre for reaching out on occasion, hopfully he comes back to his ‘forte’.
Andre Rieu in Wonderland

So this is what James Bond does when he comes out of retirement? This is a flick I couldn’t get into, even in dvd format. Looking more like a father and daughter, Connery and Zeta-Jones never generate the electricity that say, Brosnon and Russo have in Thomas Crown Affair. I agree with another reader that the stars were miscast. Jones never really gets into character, probably too concious of wanting to look perfect every time she’s in a scene. I’m a Connery fan, but the old dog has just simply run out of tricks. We’ve seen them all. Yes, the theft and the finalé may be worth the price of a rental, but don’t buy this, unless you enjoy seeing a 60-some year old man running around with a woman half his age. Ring a bell? (Nicholson and Hunt in As Good As It Gets-what was the attraction there?)
Entrapment VHS

I bought this Forerunner because I wanted to train for a triathalon. Very easy to change between running and biking which is nice. There are a lot of features with this but once you get the hang of it, the watch is easy to navigate. Heart monitor is a little quirky to setup. Mine didnt setup automatically off the bat so I had to keep turning the device off and on until it connected. Not really that big of a deal and shouldnt be a show stopper for purchasing this watch.
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We decided to move from a 30 year old analog scale to a digital scale. It isn’t as traumatic as it sounds – we DO have two computers, two cell phones and a digital camera. I did my typical analysis and research and was awed at how many choices there are. I selected the EatSmart somewhat based on what looks like inflated customer reviews but more so on the features and appearance. The item arrived quickly, was well packaged, the instructions clear, batteries were included and it worked well right out of the box. It is accurate, doesn’t require a tap-on and the numbers are large and backlit so are easy to see. Overall I am impressed. Even though we didn’t have any issues, the vendor sent me an email about two weeks after the scale arrived to make sure everything was OK and of course asked me to write a review, increasing the almost 1400 reviews he has now.
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I really like my kindle, I especially like being able to change the type size so I don’t need reading glasses to read! I like the idea that I don’t have books to store or donate!
I was very disapointed in the time it took to ship my Kindle. Kindles arrived in my local Target stores before mine arrived, I had been waiting a couple of weeks at that time. I think Amazon should have made sure all their customer’s orders had been fufilled before stocking Kindles at Target.
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I loved this book & frankly, I would give it 10 stars. It was so refreshing to read a book of fiction after reading so many true life crimes. I loved the brilliance of creating a love story between a vampire & a young teenage girl. Quite clever also to have devised a way to write about vampires without the usual repertoire of fangs & forced to sleep in coffins during daylight hours. Of course, the shiny diamond like look that ensures they’re a vampire is abit over the top, but it all worked in this fun, exciting & wonderful love story. I realize this was written most certainly for young adults but I believe it works for any age group, young or old.

I loved the movie as well & actually watched it 3 times when ordinarily I watch movies once. My favorite scene in the movie is when the Cullen clan & Bella are playing baseball to the song “Massive Black Hole” by Muse. I love it when the 3 “bad” vampires are walking across the field! What a sight & that song works so beautifully with the scenes that follow. This was my start to reading the rest of the series back to back, which if you read the first one, you really have to read them all! Sheer pleasure & offered such a new variety of reading material. Everything worked in this book & I wish it had been written when I was a teenager!
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Although I am homeschooled, and have been all my life, as a sixteen-year-old girl I am not entirely segregated from popular culture. I might be less likely than your average teenager to “go with the flow”, but that doesn’t mean I don’t *know* when Miley Cyrus does something even more scandalous than last time, or Justin Bieber tops the charts for the second week running, or a series of poorly-written vampire romance novels by a Mormon author becomes an overnight phenomenon. And… well, what a coincidence. Those same novels are exactly what I sat down to write about.

I remember my first-ever exposure to the Twilight series. I was walking down one of those ritzy red-flagstoned pavements outside some row of enormous stores, and I saw the cover of Breaking Dawn on a six-foot-high poster in the window of a brightly-lit bookstore. I remember noting the title and the name of the author and the odd picture of the red and white chess-pieces on the front before walking on. That must have been just before the series took off, because I had never seen or heard of it before, and it was some months until I saw one of the covers again. Now, perhaps two years later, perhaps a little more, I doubt if there’s one teenaged girl in the entire country who isn’t familiar with the black and red covers of the Twilight series; and most of them have read the books inside the covers too. And so have their mothers; and their aunts; and their fifth cousins twice removed. The Twilight series has taken an almost unprecedented hold over the female population of this country, and I fear that the result, in the emotional baggage these women and girls are going to carry, already is and will continue to be astronomical.

In brief, the series relates the first-person tale of a seventeen-year-old girl who relocates to a small town and falls for a pale, mysterious guy who, though he attends her high school, is soon revealed to be a 108-year-old vampire. Bella, our narrator, is quickly enmeshed in a rom
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I was not sure I wanted to spend this much on a MP3 player, but this is the coolest device I own. Nothing can “touch” this, except maybe the iPhone but it loses points because of AT&T and the steep plan prices. There are many places to get free wi-fi when you are out, and I find that I use the touch more for surfing, social networking, and e-mail than I do for music. If you don’t buy an iPod, you settled. The genius mixes are even cool. My recommendations are to get a case and screen protector immediately. The iPod touch is a fingerprint and scratch magnet. You want to protect your investment. I ordered the SwitchEasy Rebel case and it came with a screen protector.

All that said, there are some negatives. The first and most famous is that the stock Apple headphones are junk. To really appreciate the iPod and all it can do, make sure to buy some quality headphones that have the 3 button remote and microphone. Secondly, if you consider the bright display, wi-fi, and processor; it is understandable that the battery life is not great. Apple says 6 hours of video and 30 hours of music, but I multi task and jump back and forth all the time. The battery lasts me more like 5 hours. It does charge fast and you can get to 80% in two hours. Sometimes syncing is a pain, my library is larger than 32gb, so I have to manually add music and video, so that is more tedious. I did sync my Google calendar, and set up 2 different e-mail accounts. You can also add lyrics to your id3 tags via iTunes and they are viewable buy taping the album art while you are in the iPod function. It is a cool feature, but there is no easy way to populate all your songs, so it is now a huge task. Another issue to consider is that the screen resolution is good, so if your album art didn’t come from iTunes, it may look pixelated. I recommend you shoot for a minimum of 400 x 400.

The newest 32gb and 64gb models have a faster processor and more ram, and I notice that this is one fast device. I frequently b
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