there really are only 2 that are acceptable - The boring ol Diiiing Dooong and one other
350661
Of the 50 or so chimes, there really are only 2 that are acceptable - The boring ol Diiiing Dooong and one other... can't even remember which.  The rest of the tones are just stupid jingles that last waaay to long to be useful as a doorbell.  When listening to them all that kept going through my head was "Who the hell would have this as their door chime???"

I also don't like that it looses memory after a power outage.  The default volume is ear blistering loud.  So on the other hand, if you need a loud door chime, this is a winner.
495735
I enjoyed the first one.  The second one was ok, but this one is just awful.  It reads like a slightly edited outline.  Or a book report by a sophomore in high school (who would probably have gotten a C on it).  There is a ton of exposition, followed by a little dialog.  "Show don't tell" is violated constantly.

Here is an example (and this is just from a random page -- it doesn't take long to find examples)

"There were individuals who dal Lupard would rather not have to reacquaint himself with, but he was rapidly running out of avenues to investigate.  His old networks of informants were gone, and everyone at the Grey Tower was at best obstructive.  There was one man who might be of use, however.  He had fallen even farther than dal Lupard, and dangling the prospect of some form of restitution before him might be all it took to secure his help.  Tracking down his old comrade-in-conspiracy was harder than he expected." ... it goes on.

The whole book reads like a plot summary.  At 238 pages, I guess there isn't enough space for silly things like character development, modeling real human behavior and motivations, non-linear plotting, or even dialog.

Dont waste your money.
2454192
Well, there isn't much you can say about it other than it has a few funny moments but otherwise stupid.
4161196
The first one was better, but if you just want something to do than there are certainly worse books out there
2006575
Read Amazon Queen's post from February 2014, and you'll have my sentiments about this disappointing sequel almost to a tee.

IM3 felt more like another bad Terminator sequel, with a little bit of Iron Man thrown in and, oddly enough, with Gwyneth Paltrow transforming into the T-1000 at one point.  (Yes, I'm being facetious.)

Positively disastrous choice of main villain?  Strike one.  (The phony "Mandarin" was downright insulting.  Speaking of which, this movie belongs in the same crapper where he made his two concubines hide in that one idiotic scene!  Yeah, it really does stink that much.)

Almost zero connection with the Avengers or the other Phase 1 MCU movies?  Strike two.  (Honestly, if you never watch IM3, you will not miss a single important piece of information regarding Tony Stark or his fellow Avengers, except for the fact that Stark suffered temporarily with PTSD following the Battle of New York from the first Avengers movie. That's seriously all you need to know about IM3!)

Vulgar language used by the "superhero" when conversing with a child?  Strike three.  (Terrible taste there, Marvel. Coarse language, which has no place in films marketed to kids in the first place, should come ONLY from the villains and never the heroes.  Keep the moral clarity black & white, please.)

Do yourself a favor:  Ignore this film and go see Captain America: The Winter Soldier instead so you can understand how good a comic-based movie actually can be!  (Actually, when it comes to solo films, Cap has been kicking ALL his fellow Avengers' hineys!)
2951700
Good gracious some of these were boring. Most of them were. A couple were entertaining. It was worth the dollar to two that I paid, but not much more.
2329716
This is about a pair of corrupt gambling policemen in Los Angeles, involved with all the wrong people, trying different angles to get out of debt to a bigwig nasty-piece-of-work criminal. One involves trying to find the murderer of an actress, another involves befriending a drug-sniffing dog.

The illustrations are OK without being special. A second volume which is not particularly motivating and I've decided that this series is for me: not engaging enough and no sympathetic characters.
4383950
This Christmas special by Disney is consisted of 4 mini-movies:
"Donald On Ice" (1999) - mediocre
"The Nutcracker" (1999) - mediocre
"Pluto's Christmas Tree" (1952) - good
"Mickey's Christmas Carol" (1983) - great,
linked together by some low-quality filler, which does no good to the overall presentation. Of course, you can get this title, skip forward the annoying bits and enjoy the classic cartoons included, but you would be much better buying "Mickey's Christmas Carol" instead.
http://www.amazon.com/Mickeys-Christmas-Carol-Alan-Young/dp/B00FQMV3LC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1453118723&sr=8-3&keywords=mickey+christmas
It includes both the classic Dicken's story, the "Pluto's Christmas Tree", as well as 4 other cartoons, each of which is much better than the crap in this collection. Also, the useless filler is removed and you still get the same running length.
310059
The reviews written by others are pretty accurate. This is a half-decent 2-DVD set of a sampling of some old TV shows. It is the presentation of these shows that is so annoying. The "intro" to each show, mostly by Dale Reed, is watchable ONCE but one has to agonize through them every time one watches any of these shows again ... and they are not able to be skipped except by tedious fast-forwarding thru them. Very, very annoying.
1787659
I really enjoyed the first two, but this one was just bleah. Everything that happened was either predictable or boring. Characters or situations are set up in great detail and then resolved with minimal fanfare and in the most uninteresting manner possible. One character tells another like 40 pages out how the book is going to end and that is pretty much what happens! And as another review mentioned, in the end what the detectives and Deacaulion (sp?) did throughout the rest of the book (all 3 books for that matter) had nothing, nadda, zip to do with it. They could have died in the first chapter and it would have ended the same. Unfortunately like a sucker I still read the fourth book. I don't think I will waste my time on the fifth.
2795262
Hugely disappointed on this one, mostly boring the other cds from them I totally love
25953
I loved the first one; hated the overly commercialized second one.  I won't get into details.  Others have said it already.
435719
Genuine CRAP .... yes I know - words hardly ever fail me - but this is as bad as it gets. This is the "2 Stooges in Space" - and excuse me for belittling "the Stooges" talent.
666747
I've purchased several kids disks by adult artists for our daughter.  This one was really bad.  It had two good songs on it; the rest she always asks me to skip over.  Sarah McLachlin's entry "The Rainbow Connection" isn't good enough to be called whiney, it is simply pathetic.  Ivy's version of "sing" is if anything worse than the saccharin original.

Barenaked Ladies LA LA LA Lemon was alright; Five for Fighting's "Hoppity Song" was really good.  That's it.  I love Tom Waits; he doesn't belong on a kiddie disk.  At least, not with the song he had on this one.

Go with Garcia and Grisman's "Not for Kids Only," or They Might Be Giants "NO," both of which are excellent.  Skip this one.
4601096
There are plenty of bad video game sequels. Remember "Simon's Quest", the sequel to the original "Castlevania", or "Zelda 2" for the NES?  Why is it that so many sequels are botched?  I'll get straight to the point: "Tooie" is a disappointment--a big one. All the fun gameplay from the first game has been replaced by stupid search-and defeat puzzles, and "Doom"-like mazes. Gosh, if I wanted to play "Doom", I'd go play it!  And caveat to those who get "motion sickness" from playing video games (I don't know how else to explain it).  I can't play "Banjo Tooie" for more than fifteen minutes without getting sick to my stomach--really, I'm not exaggerating!  The worst part is, is that I adore "Banjo Kazooie"; it's such a shame that they had to ruin the possibilities of what could of been a good sequel. Gosh, I waited two years for this?
573393
In short, these last 3 were just god awful.

The 2nd set that features the kids was "ok", except that they're a bunch of jerks.

This series though, geez. About 30 different scenarios, childish dialogue, and not worth your time.

The only good part is the 2nd epilogue in book 9. If you can get these with the free lending library, just download the last one. At least the first set one real villain and those story.
4872117
I bought 'Some Other Suckers Parade' because I had heard a handful of Del Amitri songs on MTV during the years, which I all found pretty alright.
But the album is boring. It's poppish rock with tiny aspects of folk. The singer is good, the musicians are OK - but the music itself is so uninspired and unoriginal.
Why didn't they just release a single? 'Some Other Suckers Parade' contains 2 or 3 melodies, with 14 different (and banal!) lyrics. Only exception is the closing 'Make It Always Be Too Late' which has something, without being superb.
If you like this style, I will recommend you The Rembrandts instead of Del Amitri. I find it difficult to write that this album is bad, it's just uninspired and boring.