Bad, No Good, Poor, and Boring
933395
It is a shame that this piece of excrement film had to tarnish the good name of one of my favorite TV shows.

The acting is bad. The story is no good. The dialogue is poor and the film is terribly BORING!
4850429
I slogged through this tedious, ugly story hoping that there would be, as I found at the end of Fight Club, some redemption in it; --some payoff at the end that would justify the time spent listening to Palahniuk's interminable compendium of  abject filth, sordid sick-mindedness, and general depravity.

Alas, there was no payoff. It was a journey to nowhere, offering only a vivid view of  ugly, trashy scenery along the way.

What a waste of time and effort it was to sit through this insipid book. You could accomplish the same effect without spending the money by going out tonight and rolling in a gutter!
2894156
This book was little more than lists of details and events, and every time things got really boring, another death was thrown in for emotional effect. None of the events are significant because they don't relate to any coherent whole. I also couldn't help feeling like there was a bit of glorification of colonization. The main character, Ana, is portrayed as being ballsy for saying she will punish slaves if she has to, and the author depicts Ana and her second husband as noble and courageous just because they ride around the fields on horseback to supervise farmwork. I regret finishing the book.
2264648
This book was dull, repetitive, and plotless.  I do not care for the x-rated language.  These women were supposed to be in their senior years, but most of them acted like a group of 20-somethings in their "dating" life.  There were many loose ends throughout.  It seemed as if there was a plot beginning for each of the main characters, but there was no development of any of those plots.  Other reviewers have mentioned the dream about the slave girl that was never developed.  The book just seemed like a hodgepodge of ideas with no connection.
633804
The blurb on the author states he is a tv producer and that is what he should return to. Absolutely one of the poorest written novels of this kind I have had the misfortune to waste time on. I literally skimmed the book as it was so pathetic. Almost as if the author thought by writing the most cruel and sadistic murder scenes possible it would make the book palatable. Character development and logic non-existent. The tie in to the organized crime cartel was a joke. Just really bad. I called the friend who turned me onto this trash about 6 times while I was skimming it to tell him he is an idiot!
Avoid!!
1444561
Though compared to some truly great fantasy in the description and despite all the glowing reviews I read, this book is, at best, a total waste of time. It reads like a really bad piece of fanfiction. Characters are 1 dimensional at best, the plot is contrived and mediocre, and the universe is a hodgepodge of meaningless cliches wrapped in a bundle of banality. I'd like to get my money back and then some for the pain and suffering of having sat and read this entire "book".
1751754
This edition had three separate stories in it, none of which was good. The middle one  Sweetest Sin is about a supposed "romance" between a priest and young woman. You can all it a "taboo romance" all you want, but it's just wrong on so many levels, I can't even begin to describe it. The first and third stories, Beauty and the Blitz, and Bad Boy's Baby are  both billed as being "interracial", about white athletes and I guess black women. The only references to race are strictly about the women's skin color, and one is mentioned as having curly hair. But if there is one mention of their skin being mocha, cocoa,etc, there are dozens, and each and every one just feels contrived. And probably the worst of all is o Ned of thee guys calling the girl " Kiss", because her skin is "chocolate" and she came to a party in a silver dress. Or maybe it was when one of the girls got overheated in the sun and he made a home that she was "well done" in reference to her skin color. Bad premise, bad writing, bad all around.
2994793
Boring, poor writing - couldn't finish reading it.
4606733
The first BloodRayne was fine and dandy; it had plenty of blood, action, and sex to keep it entertaining, even if it was a bad movie.  I hoped that this would have much of the same, but I was very dissapointed.

The Good Things:
-Zach Ward (dude from "Titus") makes a good bad guy
-Slow motion gunfighting looks nifty
-A few memorable lines...I think...

The Bad Things:
-As I said above, it has none of the bloody action or sex that made the first one fun
-In fact, it has hardly any action at all.  It's boring!
-It doesn't feel right as a western.  The medieval setting worked better
-Cameramanship is terrible (they shook it way too much)
-I don't know how historically accurate any of this is (probably not...but you wouldn't be watching this for quality work anyway!)
-There are lots of stereotypes
-Natassia Malthe looks great, but she doesn't really portray an appealing character.  All she does is act tough, and it feels like a contrive effort.  Kristanna Loken did better at Rayne.

It's pretty crummy.  If you even liked the first film, or if you like westerns or horror or both, rent this and see how bad it is for yourself.

This package makes up for it by supplying the first computer game (I like to think that I bought the game and it came with a free movie).  A few other special features include a digital comic book (which is just a scanned comic that you navigate through and read), deleted scenes (which look quite raw), a commentary, and interviews.
415803
This book is terrible. I took the chance on a new author, completely regret buying it, I could barely slog through the stories. The entire thing reads like a bad statement of purpose from a high school senior who thinks his biggest moment in life was his two week mission trip where he had to talk to the poor people for almost an hour. I have no idea where other people get this "oh it made me think!" garbage, it's just some junk about things that may or may not have happened, and the occasional "oh well I'm different than my family!" moment.

Let me sum up the opening story, to give you an idea of what you'd be getting into if you bought this book: "Lolz the old man I stayed with briefly in generic Latin American country said I was boring, then lolz I did the boring thing he said made me so boring while my friends went and had fun, and wow LOLZ the generic landmark was boring!!!! Holy crap, then on the way back some cops totally thought I had drugs but lolz I really didn't." Just saved you about 15 minutes of your life. As for the rest of the book - you can get the same entertainment value if you just bang your head against the wall for a few hours. While your friend lights you on fire.

On the upside, I had way more fun writing this review then reading this book, so it's got that going for it.
568385
The book "Where's the Birth Certificate?: The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President" has letters in it. The letters are from the Latin alphabet, which was born in Italy. It was written by somebody or something called a "Jerome Corsi" which vaguely sounds Italian, too. Sadly, unlike the wonderful Italian pasta I have simmering on my stove as I write this review, the book is not full of goodness. Even being very generous (as I usually am), I'd have to say that this book is bad. It's not just run-of-the-mill bad: It's so bad, it adds new layers to the word. Its badness brings gentle feelings of disgust, though one cannot deny a slight thrill, a marveling at just how bad this diarrhea of propaganda turned out: the research is bad. The prose is bad. The reasoning is bad. The argumentation is bad. The cover design is bad. It even smells bad.

Is it really that bad? It might be even worse: It's not just bad, it's late. And gone stale.

Save your money and buy a Dilbert book instead. While both authors are unlikable weirdos, at least Dilbert talks about truths in life.
3531582
Pretentious writing...not good, but pretentious.  Muddled, plodding plot.  Dark photography, drab, morose.  Overacted, stuffy (much of it due to the writing).  Not really fun...at all.  The worst Lex Luther ever, period.  Boring.
1258479
Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, Boring, ZZZZZzzzzzz
904283
Can I give it less than one star?  This was an awful, terrible, no good book. In fact, this book was so bad, it makes me angry. Angry that I spent any time on this drivel.  Unlikeable, whiney, miserable characters who deserve the small, ugly lives they live.
1727738
Since my first review was rejected from Amazon, let me clean it up.
This is why it was bad.
1. another beautiful Virgin just waiting for the right bad boy to deflower her so they can have marathon sex.
2. He gets oral sex with her outside the door, don't you just love that!
3. has sex with a groupie and 4 hours later she forgives him and all is well.
4. You can change a __________ in 1 week or less or just try blinding yourself so you don't see it.

Overall This will be my last KA book. Her heroes are too unlikable for me. Obviously I'm in the minority with her and she does not need my readership.
4208134
There's nothing to say about this show, the show was stupid, the 3-D was stupid, it's a giant waste of time and money.  My kids didn't like it, my grandkids didn't like it and even my husband was totally disappointed, and he likes everything.  Boring, slow, stupid, that about sums it up.
2880486
Three words best describe the book: cliche, trite, and garbage. The story is a pitiful twist on that seen in The Monkey's Paw among other stories. The characters are boring and unrealistic, the story is too fast paced, the  ending is the epitome of cliche, and it fits the bill of bargain bin horror  all too well: nice unnecessary, gory descriptions and a bit of nudity. Skip  it. Maybe even burn it.