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I am an adult and I enjoyed this book very much. My husband and I have listened to the whole series on audio book (narrated by Nathaniel Parker who performs it fantastically!) and each book is very engagaing, imaginative, funny and well written. As a Library Clerk, I recommend this book and series to people who like Harry Potter or any other kind of fantasy adventure. Once you start this book, you’ll get hooked on the whole series.
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Got this as a surprise for my boyfriend who is an avid fisherman and he loves it. I thought it was a little skinny but he really enjoyed the first issue. I do agree thus far the articles have been interesting; would recommend, especially for the $5 Amazon special. Can’t beat that price!
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I bought one of these for myself and one for my mother-in-law for her birthday. This salt lamp is absolutely gorgeous. You can’t beat the price. I paid $27 a piece. I have been shopping around for a basket/bowl style salt lamp like this for awhile now, but never bought one before because they were so expensive in the stores (the $75 to $100 mark). This lamp is fairly large and looks fantastic in my great room, providing soft, relaxing lighting. When I found this one at such a good price, I couldn’t resist!
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I’m really enjoying this GPS watch. My only complaint is that it takes a couple of minutes for the watch to find the satellite when I first turn it on.
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On the whole, Bicycling is a huge disappointment. I agree with some writers that the occassional tidbits of information are good, but I don’t pay for a subscription for a sidebar or two — I read those in the newstand. Further, as I will mention below, once and a while there is a real gem of an article.

In the meantime, almost everything else they do is poor. The entire magazine is pitched at the readership as though we were all budding pros, training obsessively and fighting with that last 1% of body fat. The reality is, what Bicycling’s readership principally is is rich — in their own pages, they recently listed average household income of a subscription at $115,000. So it’s not people with the ability tor ride like the pros ride, it’s people with the ability to buy what the pros ride.

The result is a majority of articles and reviews that focus on just this — $3000+ bikes (and, as one reviewer said, the occassional review of more reasonably priced choices around $1500. Wait, $1500 is *not* chump change?!?!), advanced training and eating techniques, etc., as opposed to real world riding — centuries and club rides, touring, commuting (gasp!), etc. Even it’s racing coverage is terrible — its recent spread on the San Fran GP, one of the three most important races in the US, was 6 pages of photos, 4 of which were of people watching the race, not the racing itself.

For me, though, the worst part is its hypocrisy. In a recent issue, there was a truly excellent article on what the author called “Invisible Riders” — low income laborers who depended on their cheap bicycles to get them to and from work sites everyday. Yet: the author mentioned several times (albeit with embarrassment) that he was riding a Seven while doing research on people whose lives depended on $100 bikes; the author commented on the significance of these riders commuting everyday, a movement which riders like Bicycling readers had never been able to mobilize (maybe because they all drive to work
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Maxim is not so overt like the “other” men’s magazines. Actually, there is much more to this magazine than meets the eye. The articles really are very good, for the most part. It is especialy for men – as the articles only cover things that men would find interesting. Examples are stories of the Mafia and how to Kick a Field Goal. So, once you look at the cover girl spread – which is always very tastefully done – you actually have a reason to READ the artcles inside. Highly recommended and you won’t get into arguments with the wife over this one…that much.
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Excellent new twist to the vampire modality. It’s a captivating story line that many will enjoy.
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I heard parts of an audio version of this book a few months ago and wanted to buy it to read the whole thing together. I finally bought it two weeks ago. I finished it yesterday. I don’t know if it’s the best book I ever read, it’s certainly not the worst book.

The Help is the story of a young white Southern woman who teams up with the maids of the city of Jackson, MS, right at the start of the civil rights movement. Fed up with the way that her friends treat their servants, empowered by a college education, and emboldened by the maids’ anger at the way they’ve been treated, she sets out to write a book that anonymously airs the stories of how white ladies treat their maids. They know the danger of complaining about the system, but the maids’ dignity, and Skeeter’s desire to be more than just another Junior League belle with a family silver pattern push them forward.

The strong points of the book are that it really does give one an idea where the civil rights movement may have started. How many indignities is one supposed to take in life? Why was it ever acceptable to tell another human they had to use the bathroom in the garage, or eat outside, or wash their hands with bleach? Why were people so convinced this was right? Hilly Holbrook is the perfect villain: ruthless in her treatment of anyone who crosses her path, be it the maids who spoke out, Skeeter for questioning the status quo, or even Celia, whose only mistake is to have married one of Hilly’s former boyfriends. The book makes us ask: Do we see things the way they really are, or the way we want them to be?

Perhaps the best part of the book though, is the beautiful depiction of the relationships between the nannies and the children. Aibeleen loves Mae Mobley and tries, in her own gentle way, to teach her to see beyond color. Getting a store to change a policy is a small victory, changing the world through a child is winning the war.

But there are troublesome problems with the book. Mainly how weak a
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It is perfect for my uses with my new digital camera, Canon T1i. I can save many pictures and also short movies!
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Blackburn XR 1 Cross Put this on my 700c bike and it fit fine; about 1-2 inches of clearance over the wheel. Came with all mounting gear for multiple modes and was packaged just fine. I hang a laptop case off the side, …

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