It's too bad, because in so many other ways this was ...
927717
I must agree with David S. that the coffee produced from this machine, regardless of the grind or amount, is very weak, and I think it's because the machine pushes the hot water through the grounds so fast (watch it brew!) that the first half cup is basically faintly tinted water.  It's too bad, because in so many other ways this was the perfect solution to a quick travel mug of coffee:  it's easy to clean, it's very well made and sturdy, you can use your own coffee, and it allows space for a very tall container.  But it's not worth it if the coffee is lousy!
4298583
The author makes some valid points here, but most of them should already be common sense: America's health care system is entirely focused on disease rather than health (to our detriment), the rising costs of health care are unsustainable, and the glaring gaps in Doctor education are shameful (nutrition isn't taught at any major medical school in any form).

He had many suggestions for remedying the situation, all of which clearly grew out of only the best of intentions. Unfortunately, many of them were disturbing. They leaned strongly towards socialized medicine and heavy, wide-spread government regulation and control over business, which is a slippery slope! He advocates dumping fresh money into the hands of organizations like the CDC and FDA which have already proven themselves incompetent and dishonest. Most frustratingly, even as he talked about the need to educate consumers he continued to push a "nanny state" philosophy of forcing people into desired behaviors through "sin taxes", regulations that would simply make some things unavailable, etc. Education is worth promoting... coercion is not.

Finally, I was disappointed by the number of medically incorrect facts he presented. I cannot recommend this book, and hope that consumers will read alternatives in order to properly educate themselves on the real facts and best solutions to the legitimate problems endemic to our system.
614019
This is one of my biggest purchase regrets of all time. It's one thing when a product doesn't work as advertised, it's another when it goes above and beyond this to make your life worse than before you got it. I bought this because it looked like it would make urban composting (i) possible, (ii) easy and (iii) sanitary. But the spray just stinks to high heaven, and stinks up everything. Nor does it seem to have intended effects, and requires a ton of maintenance. When I realized this thing just didn't work, I had to put it on my fire escape to get the smell out of the apartment. Months later, with spring fever I finally got the nerve to clean it up, and I wish I had just thrown out the whole thing in its entirety. It smells so bad, filling my entire apartment. So many regrets with this product - and also so over-priced for a plastic bucket with a spicket. I work in sustainable product design, and this will be a lesson I share with my students. I'm sorry to say this, because I admire the motivation and hope someone can one day crack the nut of urban composting, but this was more trouble than it was worth and I wouldn't' recommend it to anyone, and would like my money back quite honestly.
1670523
It can have a really bad script and be filled with unpleasant characters.
3021221
Too many animals are being dis-respected and abused. This book is in bad taste and is offensive to me as a long time animal lover and rescue volunteer.
Parodys are funny - this is just in poor taste and offensive.
3830758
One of this book's themes is that things which we may consider bad have environments in which they are exactly what we need, i.e. the perfect good, and that there is an alternative name for these personality characteristics usually which conveys that "silver lining" aspect.

The example I love, because of experience with cherished friends that way, is PARANOID. The alternative word is hypervigilant, and the application obviously, and it happened in this persons life a lot, is that they would make a great security guard and job / renter interviewer perhaps also. Of course, they are hard hard hard to get to know with all of that secrecy tendency which goes along with it, but they can with goodwill and luck become very good friends in some circumstances. It is a shame that it takes so much longer to get to know them than some other people, at least for me it did. But it was worth it in the final outcome.
458776
This sets is not only expensive, but also not of good quality.
3219486
I like to learn ways to survive or handle bad times through reading novels on the subject.  This one featured the basest of people and situations going from bad to worse.  Just when a ray of sunshine with meeting some decent people happens, horrific things happen to them.  While that could be the way things go, I wouldn't want to read another one like this.
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I have seen many injustices in my life--growing up in the Deep South in the 1950's and 1960's.  Growing up Southern Baptist--the Bible was used to justify segregation, keeping Blacks down, and to justify women being kept down as second class citizens.  Here we go again.  The Evangelical church demeaning the dignity of others in the name of God.  This isn't much different from the way the church treated Galileo so long ago--the church could only see one way of seeing things, which was the way it had always been, and it was hard to wrap their heads around the idea that the old way of viewing things might not be correct or true, and that they themselves might be wrong.  It is worth watching Matthew Vines video on YouTube or reading his book to glimpse a new way of seeing things.  I for one am not willing to buy into the idea that it is God's intention to put Gays down and demean their dignity, or to make them second class citizens.  Sorry to see the Church yet again putting others down in the name of God.  If it were a requirement that I believe what these guys say in this book as a rebuttal to Vines video, I would have to give up my faith because I could not believe in a God who would put people down in this way, especially when they did not choose to be born.  I say this as a Christian heterosexual male who has been married to the same woman for 32 years, who has two adult daughters.  Well, it took how many years after the Civil War to give dignity and equal rights to Blacks?  Well, the Southern Baptists are at it again.
875131
It's been said that the major problem with the Church is that it's made up of people and people screw up everything they touch.  Atteberry realizes this and thus writes a book made up of the major screw-ups such people have in terms of the Church.  Some of these ten things are very prescient--"Speaking Above Our Level of Knowledge", for instance, serves as both a call to refrain from talking about things beyond current levels of knowledge as well as encouragement to simply learn more so that people may speak well about more and more things.  Similarly, "Settling for Mediocrity" encourages church to not accept levels of performance that would not be acceptable in secular settings.  However, even this section disappoints for a few reasons.  For instance, all Biblical discussion is done with the New Living Translation, a low-level translation/paraphrase that can lead to weak conclusions.  Similarly, much of the text is rife with Baptist/Fundamentalist assumptions about the dangers of such things as alcohol consumption and movie ratings, both of which are considered by many to be adiaphora (neither condemned nor encouraged).  However, there's a lot of worth to consider in this book, and at the very least it'll make you think about the big things even if there are squabbles to be had in the details.
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I bought this out of curiosity.  What I got was a surprise home video sex tape.  It is sooo bad in so many different ways I don't know where to begin.  And to add insult to injury, the sex sucked.  Lesbians or not if you want porn this ain't it.  If you want a film, like one that you can actually watch, this ain't it.  But if you are a film student and want to see how bad, bad film making can get, then use this as a guide for what not to do.
3853516
In my opinion this is poorly made and not functional.
1839791
I read other reviews of This is Where it Ends before I started reading. I agree with many of them. There are too many unknowns in this novel. We needed more back story on Syl and Tyler for the aftermath to make sense. I wanted to like it, but there were too many holes.
1111314
This book is too much like a battle against communism--a child's version of 1984 and Bedknobs and Broomsticks.  It is not for the non-religious parent either.  For my part, I felt it left too many details obscure and yet was too direct with others: things that are (religion, the nature of the universe, etc) generally heavy subjects for children to be good for a wide audience of kids.  These are things in my opinion that are very private.  The books in very determined to take only a certain view of the world, religion, and the matter of the universe, etc, that I shrank from reading the entire thing to my child.  We had to talk about way to much about the assumptions and assertions being made and whether they were the only way to view how "things are."  The book is already too random and overcomplicated in its general oddity and weirdness to also take on these things for children under 12, at least.
4563077
Some of the practices in this book are very incorrect and if applied as described could cause injury, illness or death.
1613108
There is a time and place for everything.  High heels for infants?  This is beyond inappropriate; it comes pretty close to the line where bad taste becomes perverse.
4382687
Don't buy if your child sticks things in their mouth, ir are teething. When drool got into the touch screen the phone stopped working, and  keeps repeating the same tune. It's too bad because he loved it otherwise.