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Title: BITE (much as I was hoping otherwise) pretty much bites
Review: I was really looking forward to reading BITE after hearing about other Richard Laymon books that are mostly out of print (or simply unavailable) in the US. The writing is rather sophomoric, and the plot is red-herring-ridden. OK, I'll admit I was surprised a couple of times, but only because of what I'd heard about Laymon's other books. I was only expecting surprises that turned out not to be there. Based on what I've heard from friends, I'll probably read other Laymon titles as they become available, but I can't recommend BITE, especially to a first-time Laymon reader. Like me. I know this genre well, and this novel could be used as an argument that the genre is simply, well, weak. And it's not. It's just that BITE *is*!
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Title: quite a ride!
Review: Richard Laymon has done it again! It's not what you might imagine from the title, but, if you read 'The Stake' then you won't be surprised. A great way to spend a few hours!
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Title: A complete waste of time
Review: 'Bite' is about the worst book I have ever read. From the first page, the narrator is a pathetic wimp of a man, willing to do *anything* just to be near his long-lost love. The supposed bad guy is a joke, and the multiple misfortunes that happen to the lead characters get boring and unsuspenseful. I didn't even bother to finish this book. If this is indicative of Laymon's talent, Stephen King is a poor judge and should be ashamed to praise this piece of junk.
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Title: A gory good time
Review: Bite is one of those guilty pleasures, a book you pretty much figure you shouldn't be liking but once you let go of your prejudices and let the story take over, it's like a mad roller-coaster ride into the nasty places of the human mind. Briefly, boy meets old flame who needs him to kill a vampire for her. He does, and they spend the rest of the novel trying to get rid of the body. It's a horror novel, though not one that will scare you much, it's a road trip of the weirdest sort, and it's a comedy that is irresistibly spiteful, skirting the sharp edges of madness. This is not Stephen King, folks, this is the guy who runs the museum full of two-headed sheep and stuffed jackalopes. For lovers of flim-flam, the strange and the absurd.
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Title: For readers of Dark Suspense not Vampire Novels
Review: What can I say? I liked it alot. I am not a big fan of vampire stories (barring the rare exception) so it didn't bother me that vampires existed more in the abstract than the actual. I enjoyed much of the difficulties that the characters went through.Amidst the darkness there is humor.Shows a genuine warmth for the main characters, Sam and Cat, who are flawed but interesting. Richard Laymon also shows a good flair for dialogue. I was fascinated throughout. The ending may frustrate some but I like how it turned out. Will definitely read more. Despite what Kirkus Review says.Porno-violence?
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Title: Typical Laymon: electric pace, strong characters & storyline
Review: Bite is a fine example of Richard Laymon's unique writing ability. Like many of his later novels, such as Island, Body Rides and Savage, the story starts at a fast pace, and continues without showing any signs of slowing. Although it may sound cliched, Laymon's books truly are unpudownable. Bite is a terrific variation on the vampire scenario, and succeeds with aplomb at being both original and great fun. It is worth reading for the ending alone! In short, although not Laymon's best book, it demonstrates the strength of Laymon's immense and underrated talent, and should be read.
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Title: You're in for a roller-coaster ride with this one
Review: If you haven't read a Richard Laymon book, then I strongly recommend you snatch up every title you can find -- you're missing out. Don't know which one to read first? BITE would be a great place to start.This book demonstrates Laymon's range perfectly with a constant mix of horror, humour, action and sex. And it's an orignial twist on the old vampire genre which keeps you guessing right up until the end. Laymon has a real knack of creating 3-dimensional characters which everyone can relate to. And from page one you want these people to survive.If you want a truly entertaining page-turner, go buy BITE -- you will not be disappointed. You will also want to work your way through everything else Laymon has written...just like I have. Have fun!
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Title: An exceptional novel by an exceptional author.
Review: Those that are familiar with Richard Laymon's work know that his style is gritty, fast paced and pulls no punches. This novel is no exception. The writing is tight. The storyline is unlike anything I have ever read. Laymon continues to top himself with each novel he writes. I originally bought this book as a British import and am thrilled to see that it is finally being published in the US. I hope that American audiences give Richard Laymon the attention he so richly deserves. I strongly recommend this book to anyone looking for an interesting and shocking read.
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Title: Bite a classic from THE BEST horror author
Review: Bite is an action packed thriller from one of the masters of modern horror. Anyone who likes Steven King or Dean Koontz and who may not have caught Laymon yet will love his writing style. If Bite is your first Laymon then you will be left wanting more. Buy this book you will be glad you did.
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Title: I thought this was a horrible book!
Review: What a ludicrous plot: Sam's ex-girlfriend, someone he hasn't seen in 10 years, shows up on his doorstep one night in a bathrobe and tells him she needs him to come kill a vampire. He drops everything with hardly a question asked, goes to her house, kills the so-called vampire, and then for some reason they take a road trip with the dead man in the trunk of the car. They want to bury him away from where they live, you see, so they just go off on this jaunt . . . and run into the most macabre set of characters you're ever encountered in fiction. The ex-girlfriend, Cat, is supposed to be the love of Sam's life, but she came across as a disgusting, self-centered, exhibitionistic tramp. The ONLY reason I kept reading this book was because I kept hoping that Sam would WAKE UP and see how horrible she was and dump her in the desert. I enjoyed this author's "One Rainy Night", but as far as "Bite" goes, it was aptly named!
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Title: A Dreadful Laymon Book
Review: I hated this book. I've read a few other Laymon books that I really enjoyed, such as "Island," "Traveling Vampire Show," "Night in the Lonesome October," and even the "Beast House" books. I understand Laymon's style and know that he often treads the line between dreadful writing and inspired lunacy. This book is just purely dreadful. It goes nowhere, the characters are horribly annoying, and the story is just dumb. Definitely a misfire from Laymon here. I feel bad for anybody here whose first exposure to Richard Laymon is through this book. Believe me, there are much better Laymon books out there! To anybody who read BITE as their first Laymon book and who now swears they are done with Richard Laymon, I urge you to at least read "Island" before writing the guy off. He has penned some hugely entertaining books. Unfortunately, BITE is not one of them. Stay away!
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Title: Not at all what I expected
Review: Although the book kept me reading it was only because I wanted to get rid of it as quickly as possible. The horror and terror in the book are minimal, and the chracters are simple and rather one-dimensional. Some of the twists and turns are interesting, but if you are looking for a good vampire thriller, or chilling horror story look elsewhere.
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Title: Wordy and tiresome
Review: I agree with Emeric1's review. The tedious dialogue continued throughout the book, and the two main characters were not very intelligent. Not recommended, read a Saberhagen book instead!
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Title: Not your typical vampire book!
Review: I loved Bite. I couldn't put it down. It kept me guessing until the very last. It was not exactly what I expected, but it was a pleasant suprise. I read One Rainy Night, and now I'm in hot pursuit on any Laymon books.
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Title: I finished it, because i dont like to leave things unifinished.
Review: I will keep this short. As other reviewers have already said, the main character was a pathetic loser. I wanted things to go badly for him.The dialogue was atrocious nonsense.The plot was all over the place and filled with unrealistic nonsense (great books make you believe you shouldn't have to try).The only reason I am reviewing this, is to save someone else from wasting half a day of their precious lives.
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Title: The Principles of Feng Shui
Review: For anyone who truly wants to learn feng shui, this is the book to begin with. Master Sang is world renown in the feng shui world and China's most highly regarded Master. My interest in FS began after purchasing several of the many 'new age' feng shui books that have saturated the market. The 'cures' just did not resonate with me. And, they didn't work! I consider myself most fortunate to have found Master Sang's book and Institute. True, it is complex and, yes, it is a life-long study, but if you want to learn the REAL feng Shui, this is it!
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Title: ok but info is not organized well
Review: The strength of this book is that it describes fairly well external features in the environment and how they affect the feng shui of the house. However this only covers eight mansion style, not flying star feng shui. The weakness of the book is that the information is not organized well and is confusing to decipher, especially if it is the first feng shui book you read. When so many other excellent books on compass feng shui are currently on the market there's little reason to consider getting this one.
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Title: Very shallow collection of notes
Review: It is obvious that the book is a collection of material that was done for classroom teachings. There are many references to later books or other material outside the book which are not available (at least not on amazon). The content is as such is most probably correct, but I hope that there are better books on FengShui out there.
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Title: the principles of feng shui
Review: this is the 2nd book i have read related to this subject and i found this one hard to understand. I don't have a LO Pan for one thing and the constant use of chinese symbols that i cannot read were unnecessary. I just found the whole thing confusing.
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Title: The Bible of Econ Development on Taiwan
Review: This is probably the single most widely-cited work by scholars writing on the economic history of the island. Ho makes extensive use of tables and graphs, and provides a heap of useful appendices. Ho manages to steer clear of the debates over just who should take the credit for economic development on the island, offering instead data useful to all sides. Simply a must. Mike Turton
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Title: Item shown not item shipped
Review: The picture shown in the ad was a solo seat rack not a 2 up rack that was shipped.I had to ship the rack to the company (Motherwell) to get it changed to a solo rack as was shown in the picture on Amozon.This cost me $16.00+ in shipping.I was NOT pleased with your service.Will NOT order again!Had it not been for the nice people at Motherwell I would be stuck with a rack I could not used.Julian Smith
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Title: Badly made
Review: I'd heard good things about Lilyette, but was very disappointed. This bra has extra fabric on the outer lining of the cups creating wrinkles even though the inner liner fits. Also, it is very oddly shaped, giving the chest an outward pointed appearance. Horrible.
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Title: Still great
Review: This is not to review the music from Born to love, of course I already loved thealbum 30 years ago. This is just a heads up to those who want to buy the cassettelike I did.Remeber this cassette is over 30 years old (mine was new). I can't remember thetechnical name but the small square cushion under the tape that braces the tapeagainst the read head, came off after one play.You can either glue it back-be very careful on the amount used or move theentire tape to another cassette case. Point is, cassettes has seen their days,try to put it on current media storage and not keep playing the cassette on acassette player.
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Title: gloom and doom
Review: A very disappointing read from an author I admire. The book creates a dreary and morbid atmosphere, and none of the characters are in the least bit attractive or sympathetic. The plot is slow and convoluted. The insight into the writing process is brief. A waste of time.
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Title: Coetzee's topography of Petersburg is unnecesserily fictiona
Review: If "The Master of Petersburg" is to be translated into Russian, any Peterburg's dweller will frown on "63 Svecnoi street in the Haymarket district". Svecnoi is a mile away. It must've been Stolyarnyi (Raskol'nikov's place), and neither place is lenghty enough to have #63 or to be called a street. There're some other insignificant in a non-Russian version topographic inaccuracies that are better be checked in a Russian one.
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Title: Correction on a previous review
Review: Coetzee's novel is set after the publication of Crime and Punishment (certain characters even reference the novel, and its protagonist by name). A previous reviewer was mistaken, how I dont know, it is explicitly clear. If he had read "The Devils" he would recognize "the prototypes" are meant for that novel,(and to some extent "The Brothers Karamazov") not Crime and Punishment. This is not a novel for those with limited comprehension.Excellent novel by the way. All Coetzee's books are worth reading.
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Title: My first Coetzee book, and I loved it
Review: I must say that the present tense of the book was shocking for me. It seemed to drive me relentlessly onto the next page and then the next....While certainly, some of the facts aren't truly historical or necessarily accurate, that doesn't really affect the nature of the story. This book isn't concerned with being totally accurate in the details. It is the voyage that Dostoevsky makes internally from his initial knowledge of his step-sons death to his ability to release all the emotions, pain, fears etc associated with it.This is about Dostoevsky (and maybe authors in general). It isnt about "the facts."Anyway, I thought it was great. I look forward to reading more...
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Title: Not worth it!
Review: Don't spend money on this book, I was very disappointed when I got this book. It does not have as much information as what is expected. It cost too much for the little information it has. If this book cost me $20.00 I still would have been disappointed but not as much, the saying "you get what you pay for" does not stand true for this book. It has many pictures but none of the house plants I own. You will wonder why it cost so much. It's a good book if you know nothing about house plants and want to spend alot of money. After I got this book I got The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual, it has more info in it. Encyclopaedia of House Plants is really not worth the money. I would feel guilty if is sold this book for or around the price that it is going for. I would really feel like I was ripping someone off.
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Title: Piano at it's best
Review: I have been a piano student for quite a long time, and this album has renewed my enthusiasm for this fantastic instrument. The technical portions of these studies are extremely difficult, yet Maria Corley performs them with tremendous fluidity and skill. Yet, as any student of music knows, it's not technical prowess which allows a piece to transcend its classification and become legendary - it's an underlying sensitivity and beaty. Here this album delivers! I delight in different portions of the album every time I listen to it. This will be a classic.
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Title: Hauntingly Beautiful
Review: Maria Corley plays Adams' Etudes with an interpretation that gets to the core of these studies. This is a recording that stays with you; I must have played it some three dozen times so far, and each time I discovered new elements. The work is so concentrated with energy and myriad of details that it's almost too much to take in at once. Corley's technique is really great; she has both power and tenderness in her touch--which is always at a high artistic level. I give this recording 5 stars +. "Bravo!"
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Title: Not a SLOW Cooker -TOO HOT, TOO FAST
Review: This product should be in a category all by itself, FAST COOKER! It cooks too fast and burns your food. The exterior gets too hot and has the potential to cause burns to anybody that touches it. I've owned it now for over two years and have learned you cannot "set it and forget it". Don't think you can start it before you leave for work and come home to a delicious meal, you can't! It burns and overcooks everything. Please do yourself a favor and go buy a different brand; I'm fed up with this one and I'm buying a new one today!
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Title: Overcooks food!!
Review: I received this as a housewarming gift over a year ago. Since then I have used it a handful of times and only once did it produce what I would consider to be quality food. It typically overcooks and dries food out. Just this week I put together a crock pot egg bake recipe and left it overnight on low, the 10 hour setting. I checked it at 8 hours (knowing that it typically cooks faster) and the food outside was completely burnt, completely ruining the dish as every bite had the same burnt taste. My mother actually has the same crockpot and has had similar experiences, just recently it overcooked her twice baked mashed potatoes, again burning around the edges and drying everything else out. The only reason I'm writing a review is that I'm on Amazon trying to find another crock pot and found this one in my search results. I just threw mine away. It's a complete waste of money and I will not be buying another Rival crock pot.
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Title: Perfect product if it was called a fast cooker
Review: If you use high you might burn down your house. The low feature will have our food boiling within an hour. Do not buy this product if you want a true slow cooker. Our meats seem to always dry out in just a couple of hours vs. it needing to usually take 6-8 hours. Im going with another brand now.
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Title: Defective
Review: I loved the size of this pot and the programming options. The first few times I tried it I didn't have a problem but it cooked faster than the recipe specified. Then I started noticing that food burned against the pot in one area whenever I used it. The last time I scrubbed the burned part, I noticed little cracks. (I bought it at Kohl's and they let me exchange it for different slow cooker.)
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Title: Pot With A Problem
Review: I received the Rival Crock-pot as a Christmas gift. Loved it. Then the beauty wore off. It cooks too fast, thought at first they might have reversed the high and low. I have only used it 5 times. Today was the last straw - pulled the stoneware pot from the cooker to clean it and noticed a hair line crack on the bottom - turned it upside down and found where liquid had leaked out. It's in the trash!!!!
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Title: Very disappointed in the quality
Review: Rival is the "original" slow cooker that has been around since at least the 70s. I bought this model a couple of months ago to replace an older model. I thought by purchasing the original "CrockPot" I would be getting the best slow cooker on the market. I am sorry to say the quality really seems to have gone down considerably compared to my model from ten years ago. After only a few uses the outside of the stoneware insert began crazing. Now the paint is almost completely crazed on the entire stone crock. The outside of this model also gets very hot, even on the warm setting. I am pleased with the way it cooks but will probably purchase a different brand next time due to the poor quality of Rival's product.
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Title: Burns Everything!
Review: I finally got rid of this crock pot, as did my sister-in-law. No matter what the setting, this crock pot burned everything, no matter how much liquid was added. It also tended to boil, causing the lid to bounce up and down and causing liquid to end up all over my counter. I do not reccomend this slow cooker.
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Title: HORRIBLE CROCK-POT
Review: HORRIBLE. This is not a slow cooker crock-pot. The temp is way too high, food cooks way too fast. Soups should never each a boiling point (on the low setting) within the first half hour of being turned on. I've ruined several meals trying to work this crock-pot. I contacted Rival about the problems I was having and was told this is just how they're made now...it kind of defeats the purpose of being a slow cooker. It's not safe to turn on, even on the low setting and leave it.
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Title: Broken parts
Review: The leg broke in the first month, the lid handle broke after 6 months. This unit cooks too hot. You can get used to it but you shouldn't have to.
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Title: Don't use this pot around small children
Review: I've had this crock pot for a couple of years, and I rarely use it. I agree with other reviewers that it gets too hot too fast, and tends to overcook food.But that is not my main concern. For me, the biggest problem with this crock pot is that the metal exterior of the pot gets extremely HOT. I mean untouchably hot. I suppose this is the component that is meant to heat the ceramic insert. I have 2 small children, and on the rare times that I do use this pot, I have to put it in a far-away corner of my kitchen for fear that someone will get severly burned if they touch it.I am shopping for a new crock pot that is safer. I wish I had known before I got this that it heated from the outside-in. I would not recommend it.
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Title: Rival's lid handles break!
Review: The same thing just happened to us - we've used our crockpot a little over a year and last night the handle just pulled right off the lid! The glue or plastic just crumbled into little pieces, like it got too hot for it or something. Rival's warranty won't cover it since it's over 12 months old and the lid is $10 plus $8 S&H. That's why we're looking at getting another one, but not Rival. Buyer be warned!
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Title: Great product
Review: I have been using the crock pot for about 2 months, works great, no problems. The programming function with the auto switch to warm is a real plus
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Title: Money down the drain.
Review: My son had bought this Rival Smart Pot and let me borrow it. I had trouble the first time I used it and the the third time I could not program it. All the lights just kept flashing,a piece of junk!!
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Title: OVERCOOKS
Review: I have had this crock pot except in black and agree with those who have said it overcooks. I recently cooked a 5 lb chicken on LOW 10 hours and it was done in 5 hours. I also made an egg breakfast casserole in which the recipe said to cook on low for 10-12 hours and again, it was done in 5. Very embarrassing when I was serving it for brunch after church and it was way done at 6 a.m.!!!!
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Title: NEGATIVE 1. Cracked & broken handles!!
Review: I love my Smart-Pot but after two years of occasional use, the base handles have broken off. Now I have screws and handle parts rattling around inside the base. Rival's website DOES NOT have replacement parts for this crock pot!!! SAVE YOUR MONEY. DO NOT PURCHASE A RIVAL SMART- POT!!!
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Title: doesn't work
Review: Don't buy , put a rib roast in and turned it on , heated up so we left ...came home to a cold pot with an uncooked and ruined $3o piece of meat....called customer service and were give the phone tag run around for 35 minutes and told there was nothing they could do about the cost of the meat which was Their fault...so if u buy one , good luck and don't bother with crappy c s dept !!
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Title: Worked for 2 years
Review: Worked fine for two years. Now now matter what temperature setting you put it on it stays on High.
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Title: Fast Cooker
Review: I wish I'd read the reviews more carefully when I bought this. It burns or overcooks everything I put in it.I just ordered a Hamilton Beach to replace this Rival. The Hamilton Beach had almost all 5 star reviews.Stay away from this one.The last straw was last weekend when I used this Rival to make corned beef & cabbage. On LOW heat, the corned beef was so overcooked it fell into shreds. The potatoes, carrots and cabbage were cooked to mush and I added the vegetables much later in the cooking cycle.
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Title: I agree
Review: I agree with all those who say this crock pot is way too hot. Ayuh; it sure is. Furthermore, the engineer who designed it missed the high school physics class where the teacher explained that heat rises! It appears that the heating elements surround the sides of the pot rather than underneath it. The result is that contents burn badly around the top of the pot. If the heating elements were under the pot - only - and if the heat could be regulated, stuff would cook slowly and not burn. Sort of like a stove, methinks.
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Title: Too HOT
Review: Got this as a gift a couple years ago and I am now looking for a new one. I only use the low setting and the food cooks in about half the time the recipe calls for. I cannot "fix it and forget it". I have to be home to unplug it before everything burns up and my meal is ruined.Also the handle on the lid gets extremely hot.
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Title: "dumb pot"
Review: This looks like a great crock pot with multiple times and warming. If you use the amount of liquid called upon, it burns the meat. If you add enough to cover the meat, it cooks ok, but the meat does not come out moist. As others have said, it cooks too hot. I traded my first one for another thinking just a lemon - nope, same for the second.Do not buy
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Title: cooks too quickly
Review: I love the way this crock pot looks, and I like the fact that it is programmable, but mine cooks way too quickly. I use crock pots often, and I own two others (Rival brand also). They cook exactly as they should but when I put food in this pot, the side on the back of this one will actually burn while the front side will cook to perfection. If you are at home, I guess the remedy would be to turn the lining crock around halfway during cook time, but if you need to be away, this one will burn your food. I have always been very happy w/ Rival products, but this particular one is a dud.
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Title: Don't waste your $$$ on this pot of disappointment!!!
Review: We received this crock pot for a wedding gift. I was really excited because I remembered my mother making lots of slow cooker meals while I was growing up. During the first month we were married I tried to use the pot but ended up with an over cooked, burned mess! I was very disappointed and figured it was because I was a newly wed and had little experience preparing meals! Here we are 5 years later and my cooking has much improved, but the pot has not! Every recipe I have tried has ended up over done and burned around the edges. I have tried various recipes, meats, veggies and tried using the different time settings. Nothing seems to help! This product cooks way too hot! I thought maybe we received a faulty model where the thermostat is set too high, but after reading other people's experience I think it is just poorly designed. I will be looking for a new pot that actually cooks slowly. What a disappointment from Rival!
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Title: Gets way too hot
Review: As our family has grown so has our need for a larger slow cooker. We have a simple 4 quart Rival Crock Pot with 3 settings: off, low, and high. It's worked great for over 15 years, but it doesn't hold enough food. Since Rival served us well the first time we bought this Crock Pot at a store...without checking the reviews here first.As others have said, this Crock Pot gets way too hot on low. I tried two different recipes and they both came out very overdone. Potatoes near the edge in a pot of scalloped potatoes came out black. I wrote to Rival's customer service about this but received no reply so I returned the pot to the store.Perhaps it is the more recently manufactured pots that have this problem - those that say it cooks fine have been using theirs for years.Avoid this slow cooker, at least until they iron out the problems with it.
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Title: Too hot
Review: I was excited to get this beautiful crock pot last Christmas. But after cooking with it for a year, I'm looking for a new one this year. I have had extensive trouble getting the temperature regulated on this unit. It seems to boil nearly everything I put in there.I'm glad a whole group of people have had great success with this model; perhaps I (and a whole other group of people) got lemons. Who knows?But I don't trust this model anymore.
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Title: Problems I have encountered w/ this slow cooker
Review: I purchased this slow cooker approximately 3 years ago and agree, it runs too hot for slow cooking anything other than a soup. I tried the crock pot chocolate cake, macaroni and cheese, scalloped potatoes and it has one side that always runs hot and always sticks and burns - even on low. The cheap plastic lid handle also broke off within a very short time after I purchased it. It sounds like a majority of people owning this slow cooker have experienced the same problems, so I'd highly advise against purchasing this one.
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Title: Sizes are weird...
Review: I bought these shoes in a 7 and they were WAY too big and I wear a 7 in everything else. Then I bought a 6.5 and one shoe was still WAY too big and the other was kind of snug...They looked great but they must be factory rejects at this price...especially with the horrible sizing...
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Title: Pink Panther diehards only
Review: It comprises the main titles of Trail of the Pink Panther and A shot in the Dark, otherwise I can't think of a reason why you should buy it. If you're not a huge Pink Panther fan stay away from this one.
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Title: AN ARROGANT AND OVERAMBITIOUS ACCOUNT OF THE STOCK MARKET!
Review: from experience i am familiar with the subject of the book well, and it seems to me that the author attempts to overthrow logic in this work. A waste of money and time...
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Title: Works for us
Review: Holds CD's well. My daughter can get them in and out. A little tough to get zipped up because the zipper gets stuck when it first starts out.
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Title: Nothing else comes close!
Review: This is undoubtedly the best DVD case out there for the collector. 320(!) discs in manageable storage. I have 9 of these (that's almost 3000 discs!) and they take the space of less than 100 actual DVD or CD cases. They are heavy duty enough for full protection and easily accept tape on labels for tracking. A great product!
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Title: Never know what you're going to get with Targus
Review: I have bought several CD/DVD cases from Targus. Some are great (like the discontinued bubble sleeve binders) and some are terrible (like the City Gear). This case has the absolute worst kind of sleeve. The ones with 1) slots that do not easily fit the CD booklets and 2) the slots with the most idiotic design ever invented: a plastic tab at the top that scratches CDs when put in or taken out of the slot. Targus makes many good products. This is NOT one of them. My suggestion is to avoid this product, unless you really like getting your CDs scratched and scuffed.
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Title: Not recommended!
Review: After put in 40 CDs, I notice it start to bend my CDs. Because the spine wasn't wide enough and all the sheets are stitched together at the middle, when I open it like a book and flip all sheets on one side, it start to bend CD from the edge. Also it's more difficult to insert a new CD into these bended sheets.As the CD pockets became very tight even only half loaded, I won't recommend it for anyone who will access their CDs often. Should be aware that the proper capacity of this product is around 60 CDs. I feel that if I put more in, it'll became too tight and actually damage the CDs rather than protecting it.
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Title: Do not buy if you have more than 30 DVD's to store
Review: This seems like a nice case until you start putting the DVD's in. After about 30 they pinch together so much at the back you cannot easily close the case to zip it. I did get 36 in there but I had to squeeze it together so hard I was afraid of damaging the DVD's. I'm sure they would warp if I left it closed that way. Amazon was great of course and refunded my money.
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Title: Does what it is meant to do and does it well.
Review: We bought this in order to consolidate some of our dvd's and bluray's and it works perfectly for what we wanted to do. I'm not sure if I would want to swing it around by the handle but it seems sturdy enough to carry it from place to place with the handle. We put 316 discs into it, so it is essentially full as we have discs on all the pages and it closes and opens well. The zipper is a little harder to pull than when it was empty but so is the zipper on a pair of pants when you put them on rather than hanging on a hanger so that is nothing I would not expect. We are going to buying several more of these and do away with our large wooden storage pieces all together. I would suggest these to anyone looking for a cost effective way to store discs in a smaller footprint.
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Title: Good large case
Review: The stitches and material are of good quality. The pages hold the disks nicely but not firm. Few of my disks are able to slide out of the plastic is not pulled over the top of the disk when in the sleeve. I don't ever rough handle the case nor turn it upside down so this is not an issue for me.When the case is open all the way, the zipper tucks in toward the binding making it difficult to zip back up.Aside from a few loose sleeves and the zipper tucking, the quality of this case is pretty good! I would tell others to buy it.
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Title: works as advertised
Review: Product seems to work just fine as advertised. Zipper seems to get sucked in and is a pain to retrieve it after you close the book. Other wise it seems to work just fine.
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Title: Great Item
Review: Finally got rid of my jewel cases. Only had it a month or so, but it is so convenient and compact, I ordered the other Targus with the handle. Same nice quality.
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Title: DVD case great.....
Review: This case is just great. It holds so many dvds. I am so happy with it, that I need to buy another one. I highly recommend this product. It is very well made.
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Title: Good Product, BAD SHIPPING
Review: Ordered The case on May 5th, and just received it today on June 8th. After 3 weeks of waiting, I tried to contact datavis 3 times, both by email and phone. I didn't get a response until I threatened to have my credit card company get my money back. They still didn't contact me, but instead sent out another automated order confirmation email with a tracking number in it. It would have been nice to get it on time, but now that it's here I'm happy with the quality. I don't think I would buy from them again.
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Title: Good idea, poor execution
Review: We had this CD case for a few months and had it about half full before the handle broke (it's hard plastic, not fabric with rubber on it like most large cd binders/cases, so there was a screw sticking out of the case once it broke). The sheets hold DVD's or CD's just fine, but closing it can be a pain in the butt because the fabric doesn't easily align at the top-it tends to flop inwards. The exterior fabric is durable, but that's about it. Don't waste your money on this. OfficeMax has a similar case for less money that's better made, and Case Logic makes a similar one that is superior as well.
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Title: Sturdy and Spacious
Review: I found the product to be spacious enough to file my DVDs and a part of each DVD cover side by side. Even though it is full, the handle and sturdiness makes it easy to carry room to room. It sits well on my shelf and saves so much room.
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Title: Wait until you fill to capacity
Review: I purchased the wallet that holds 80 discs, or is at least supposed to. For the price, it seemed like an excellent bargain. By the time I put all of the discs in, I quickly realized that I would be returning it. It was VERY hard to close; it seemed like there should have been only enough slots for 3/4 of the discs. If you're not going to use all of the slots, I would recommend it, but if you planning on filling to capacity, I would check out some other solutions. I'm now looking at some options from Case Logic.
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Title: perfect mass media case
Review: I have filled this puppy up to capacity and i love it. Really good construction, durable, and the handle is really rugged but still aesthetically pleasing.
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Title: Don't buy this case if you're looking to fill it to capacity
Review: At first this seems like a great CD/DVD case: the materials used are first class, the pages are soft, zipper zips smoothly. The only flaw is in the design construction of the pages. They basically stapled a 4-CD sheet in the middle to fold in half like a book. This becomes a problem when you fill all the slots to capacity. It's now too tight to lay flat and there isn't enough slack in the middle to close nicely. You can force it closed but you shouldn't have to! If they're going to bind the sheets to the spine this way there should be more space in the middle by the binding to give it more slack. It's kind of hard to explain but I hope you can understand. I ended up just filling it to 65 discs instead of 80 so it would close nicely.
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Title: Great CD/DVD holder
Review: I have purchased 2 of these over the last year and both work excellent. Very well made, CD's stay in their slots. Overall no complaints.
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Title: It is what it is.
Review: You want large capacity?This is the album case for you. It'll save a lot of shelve space, and durability is not bad.
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Title: Flimsy Pockets
Review: The inside pockets are made of flimsy clear plastic material. It's going to be only a matter of time before they tear.
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Title: very good may be better
Review: This is a very good case. I read the reviews before purchasing and thus decided to try for myself. Reviewer mentioned it was hard to open. It is but not enough to turn down. If you take care it opens easily enough. The huge capacity makes this case a winner. As far as scratching. No way. It has the felt inside which is as nice as I've seen them. The liners match up to any I've seen. The one negative is the outside could be leather. If your looking for the perfect dvd holder I'd look for a higher quality case like leather or similar. This is a nylon type thus the 4/5 stars. Finally, the holder is excellent making the purchase a good one. I'm not a person to toot my own purchases if its bad I'll tell ya.
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Title: not sturdy enough
Review: this case looks fine and the sleeves are ok, but after i packed it with dvd's and picked it up, the handle came offon one side. now i have to hold it in my arms.
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Title: Good quality, good price
Review: Normally I wouldn't bother to write a review for something as trivial as a CD book, but the only review thus far is from someone who gave this thing 1 star because they were confused as to how many CDs it holds. In case you are similarly confused, the product name is, "Citygear 160 Capacity CD DVD Case," and the "160" is how many CDs it holds. Eegads people.That aside, I have 7 other cases and this one is better than most. Sturdy construction, top-loading instead of side (so DVDs don't slip out when you use the handle to carry it) ... not sure what other features make a product this simple worth 5 stars instead of 3 or 4. Good price, good product, CLEARLY LABELED to carry 160 CDs (I counted, there are 20 pages that hold 8 each...).
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Title: Good for storage issues
Review: purchased as a gift for a friend who loves it and wants another. So i guess I will buy another
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Title: Targus always makes a great product
Review: I'm never to picky about media holders. This one is built well on the outside and a nice durable zipper which is alwaya a plus. The inside sleeves are very flimsy so I wouldnt recommend this to someone who is gonna travel with it extensively.
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Title: Terrible layout
Review: This CD case has such a terrible layout. Basically the sleeves branch from a central point which in turn causes the inner row of cds to be more compacted than the outer rows which not only prevents the case from holding the correct number of CDs but also damages the CDs quite heavily.
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Title: DVD Album
Review: I pay a little more than other albums available because this one is lasting quite a long time under repeated use. I continue to purchase this same album because I have tried others and this has the quality I am looking for.
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Title: HUGE binder
Review: If you're wondering where to put your CDs and DVDs [I do a lot of back-ups, picture DVDs, etc] this is a great place to 'file' them. This thing is HUGE! ha.. plenty of room. It feels pretty sturdy, as well. Good binder...no complaints here! :-)
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Title: Beware of "tech details"
Review: If things haven't changed in the time since I bought this case, this product is listed as a 190 capacity case. When I received it, it only held 160. Look at the "technical details" - although the capacity is listed as 190, in the technical details the capacity is listed as 160. Luckily for me I don't think I would need a 190 capacity case anyway, but if you do, don't make the mistake I did. Read all the details before purchase.
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Title: Great classic origami book.
Review: I used to borrow this book from the local library when I was a kid; I taught myself origami from the book. Now I bought it for my great-niece who is fascinated by folded paper figures. The book is over 60 years old but it's still a classic.
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Title: One of UK's top Hard/Heavy albums
Review: One of the fathers of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Saxon has always been one of the top names when it comes to bands "without one best album". There's a Saxon album for each kind of metal fan. If you enjoy some hard/heavy similar to Scorpions, try mixing Scorpions' "Pictured Life" and Iron Maiden's "Aces High" or "The Wicker Man". The result is Wheels of Steel, one of the masterpieces of traditional Heavy Metal, in the old British style. Excellent album!
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Title: Good Rock & Roll
Review: After listening to only a few songs from this CD I though that it was really good especially after never hearing this band before!
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Title: Scissors
Review: The book cover was in excellent condition; however 15 or more quotes through out the book had been cut With scissors!
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Title: Food for Thought & Inspiration
Review: Quick read, challenging and inspiring. Hope for those whose spirituality might be putoff by the Christians next door.
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Title: Messy Spirituality Review by Mssed Up Krischian
Review: I so enjoyed this book by the late Mike Yaconelli. The book is grounded in such simple Christian truths that are so often overlooked as we try to appear as though we have it altogether. A real call to authenticity that is so desperately needed in the church. May God raise up more of us in Mike's physical absence from this earth to carry this very true spiritual message.
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Title: Messy Spirituality is good . . . but not great
Review: As always, Yaconelli (like Brennan Manning and others) does a great job presenting the graciousness of the great God we serve. In his book, we are reminded time and time again of the Jesus who ministered to lost people, the blind, the lame, the social outcasts, prostitutes and the emotionally hurt. It is a challenge to every Christ-follower to mimic the love of Christ. I heard recently John Wesley encouraged people to preach 90% law and 10% grace. Now I am not jumping on that bandwagon, but the big thing about grace is it's real only if we understand our total depravity, guilt before a holy God, and eternal punishment if we do not accept the Savior's blood on our behalf. I wish Mike Yaconelli would have reminded us of those truths as well, and the true Gospel is both Law and Grace.
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Title: Redundant and too long
Review: The first 25% of the book strongly makes a good point that needs to be aired, repeatedly, today.The rest of the book reiterated the same point over and over and over and over. This isn't a long book, but it was way too long anyway.
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Title: Antinomianism at its finest!
Review: If you prefer mainstream Christian, feel-good books and not the truth of the Bible, then this book is for you.If you think Jesus was just kidding when He said "Be holy as I am holy," then this book is for you (1 Peter 1:16).If you think John was a little off when he said, "If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth," then this book is for you (1 John 1:6).If think holiness is just an option and not a requirement, then this book is for you.If you hold personal experience over the truth of the Bible, then this book is for you.However, if you believe that God saves us FROM our sin and not in our sin, if you believe God's grace is powerful enough to keep us from stumbling, if you believe that sin separates us and breaks the fellowship from God, if you believe that repentance is necessary for salvation (TURNING from all known sin), then do not read this book. Read the Bible.
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Title: The Book is Blasphemous
Review: I read this book as part of assigned reading for a class in Community Spiritual Formation and was very disgusted with it. It is the worst book I have ever read. My problem with the book is based on his total distortion of the plan of salvation provided by God through Jesus Christ. He glories in the imperfect and corruption of life and makes that the normal experience for the Christian. This is an example of the false theology produced when ones experience is the basis of truth. When the Bible is quoted is often twisted out of context. On other times is it intentionally misrepresented to support his false conclutions. The words, "I think" are used to often as support without any Biblical support. I hope no one will buy this book.
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Title: Must Read for Everyone Who Calls Him/Herself Christian
Review: I can't say enough good things about this book. In my opinion, if you don't "get it" (the real meaning of walking with and for Christ) after reading this book, you probably never will. Not only is the message 100% right on the mark, but the writing style is very inviting and compelling. I read it a second time immediately after reading it through the first time - I was just too disappointed it ended. Buy this book, it can revolutionize your life!
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Title: An inspiring, light, easy read...
Review: ...a great book to leave by your favorite chair to pick up and read bits at a time. I loved the book. It reminds you that all of our lives here on earth can be "messy", but that God loves us through it all. Jesus spent most of his time with the downtrodden, the prostitute, the tax collector, the poor. At times, it's easy to feel you don't measure up. This book leaves you knowing that you do, even with all the mistakes you make throughout this difficult life! I just bought another copy for my daughter away at college. If you feel like giving up sometimes, pick this one up!
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Title: Messy Spirituality
Review: I never realized that my being a christian was because I was not perfect but very messed up. How cool to know that my problems and pains are what attracted to Papa(God).
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