Horrid... Save Your Money
356891
What a wasted effort... this video is really nothing more than a brief outline of some advanced reloading topics, with no real substance or instruction.  It consists of a series of short vignettes on each subject, introducing each one, glossing over all the real details, and then moving on.  The whole thing is about 45 minutes long.

I began to feel bad for the host - his instruction was so poor that the producer had to put captions on the screen in post-production to tell the viewer what he was talking about.  John blathers on about how you "need to use this, uhh, tool here, umm, that kind of gets in there and uhh, reams that out" while a caption would appear on the screen saying "John is referring to a primer pocket uniforming tool."

Filming was from the front, so that the host's face was in the frame, but consequently you couldn't see him using the tools and equipment that he was working with.  It didn't matter much anyway - he didn't ever tell you how to actually use the tool, just vague descriptions like "you put this in there, and uhh, roll it around, and it uhh, tells you if it's OK."

If you read the one paragraph instruction on Redding's website about how to select bushing size for their S-type dies, you already know more than this DVD teaches about the subject.

I wanted some teaching concepts and ideas to help with an advanced reloading course that I'm developing for our local Rifle Club, but there was nothing useful to be had from this DVD.
4536456
Giving this one star is generous. The characters are sketchy at best. The plot is barely "alright" and the author employs this misspelling of ALL RIGHT throughout the selection. The author alludes to the persecution of witches without giving concrete examples (until the end--and still, general, lacking detail). The threat against them is unclear and fails to add any dramatic tension. Long spans of time pass without adequate explanation.  The cover art and description "hoaxed" me into downloading this ebook (See author's bio for reference). I'm glad that I didn't spend money on it. This writer needs a serious editor. With this bland, beige, sad read, I'll skip the sequels. Humph!
560070
Sadly terrible.

I made it through the first six chapters and then had to stop.

I'd love to support fan fiction... book mash-ups, but this book was horrid.

Nothing about the plot made sense. Rain is retiring where nobody can find him, so he takes a trip to see old army buddies... WTF?

His cover is a retired auto worker, but he pulled $5,000 out of his wallet over a 45 minute period.

The dialog has one voice... the characters don't have their own voices.

And the list goes on.

Its sad that this book is so bad because I wanted very much to like it.
4362340
***SPOILER ALERT****

Ok, I have no idea what purpose the author had in mind when writing this. I'm in somewhat of a foul mood anyway today...so I'll take out my wrath on Ms. Willis. I just kept hoping that there would be a plot, some epiphany. But there isn't a plot. The characters are pathetically helpless and lacking in all imagination. They run around in circles fretting over nothing that they couldn't fix by just, hmmm...talking to someone... It's terrible. Let's just say, THEY ALL DIE! Yes...all but three of main characters get bumped off by either the plague or the `mystery virus'. Oh...and the virus has no connection whatsoever to the time travel events. None! The dig site that is `oh so important' has no connection to the town where Kirvin ends up. None! There's no historical link from the characters in the past to those in the future. It's just an empty novel that poses a little hope of interest and never delivers....for hundreds of pages. It really would have been a much better story if everyone just died in the first 20 pages. Then you could just go on and read a good novel. I'm sorry...but the goons that rated this with more than 1 star must have read a different version of the book...because this was just mind numbing.

So, yes...both little girls die, the wife of the manor dies, the mother-in-law dies, the clerk dies (but I must have missed that sentence.... He suffers for a gazillion pages and then he's just not mentioned...so I must have missed the one line where he actually died). The preacher dies. Everyone in the whole town dies. Aunt Mary dies. The `evil' acting head of the college dies. That's it. Oh...and they never do locate the real head of the college that gone off to Scotland fishing and doesn't have a cell phone or pager in an era with time travel. Really?

So, the story could be rewritten... There was a hopeless twit of a girl that gets sent back through time to the black plague. Her friends worry about what to wipe their butts with in the present while she tries for days to get the courage to ask the knight in shining armor how to get back home. Then, everyone drops dead in the present and past... Oh...and then there's a weak hearted attempt to rescue the girl from the past by a sickly miserable old professor and a twelve year old Wunderkind. When they meet up in the past...there's no hugs, tears, thank-you's... Just hey... let's go home.

Do yourself a favor and skip this book. Sorry to be so harsh...but it was a true waste of time.
4432027
Can't get much horrible than this ... waste of time and money.  Thfffft.
1312862
I picked up this CD while I was at Hollywood Video last night. It was in the bargain bin where you buy 2 CDs and get 2 for free. Sometimes I get lucky and find a real gem of a horror movie while searching the bargain bin. Not this time folks. This movie sucks. Its got demons, religious cults, zombies and a bunch of other distractions but the story is convoluted, the acting blows and the whole CD isn't worth my time, your time or anyone else's time. It shouldn't even be in the bargain bin waiting to snare unsuspecting horror fans like myself. It should be burned and then buried deep beneath still waters.
4708282
I am writing this as I'm watching the movie on TV.

The apalling, cringing, dire nature of this movie prompted me to google the film, and it's that bad I'm even writing this review while it's playing in the hope that it might spare others the horror.

Believe the criticism, it really is that bad.

Avoid!
1311805
I'm so glad I didn't see this in the theater. I was bored so I rented this mess of a movie. Who wasn't scared of the Boogyman when they were growing up? I had a hard time believing the directors would be able to pull off a decent movie and I was right. Horrid acting, horrid story, horrid everything. I think the only time I jumped was when the movie ended and I had to jump off the couch to take it out of the player. Lame, pathetic, and unmemorable. Another movie destined for the bargin bin. AVOID!!!
3592196
Horrible. Don't waste your time
.trust me..
4083510
This is so bad , I almost giggled at how bad it was.  It actually got to the point that it made me think of those horrible, Ed Wood horror movies.

First of all I started reading the story because of the cover, title and that it was only 11 pages, I didn't even bother reading the description, I really have to stop doing that.

The story begins with Johnny, a young man shackled to a tree just before sunset.  Enter mad doctor who says that the boy was bitten by a werewolf and then the doctor proceeds to arouse the "boy", eventually having Johnny penetrate and finish inside the doctor.  The next morning after all is done the doctor tells the only way to cure him is to have "gay sex", author's term not mine and that is why the doctor did him, you know out of the goodness of his heart.

Even though Johnny had never been with a man before he is now all hot and bothered and wants a chance to "cure" someone else.  After all can't everything be cured by a good ......

The writing style is atrocious and juvenile.  Only read this if you LOVE Ed Wood movies.

ETA spelling
4386964
What a disgusting and horrendous movie. It had the potential to entertaining and even poked fun at some of the political correctness nonsense. However, the scenes of violence were supposed to be made palatable by depicting killings in a comic book style. The killings of several billions that are implied but we don't see put me over the edge. Interestingly, the premise was good and it was well cast. Seems they were after some type of satire but Hollywood isn't smart enough to pull that off. Don't waste your money or your time on this rotten film. My time would have been better spent cleaning out the lint trap in my clothes dryer.
3815932
This book was horrendous!  I enjoy a good horror book, but this crossed the lines into some crazy perverse, unmedicated psychotic babble.  I got the kindle version because it was free and now I know why.  If you want to feel like scrubbing your brain cells with bleach then go right ahead and read this book!!  (I only gave it a star because Amazon made me!)
2546588
This was so stupid...  I don't know where all these great reviews are coming from here.  To be clear, "stupid" is not a term I would typically use in a book review but I can't think of a better word in this case.

The writing style itself wasn't bad, which is why this is 2 stars instead of 1.  It wasn't great but it wasn't the worst.  The plot was just so unbelievable, even for a horror/thriller book.  There were loose ends, and the characters weren't fleshed out at all (SPOILER:  which is probably fine since most of them die). There seemed to be no purpose to the story at all.  The ending was horrible.  This whole swamp-trash revenge theme is so far fetched and it was just gratuitous violence.

Save yourself some time and don't read this one.
1499424
I hung in there trying to make it through the series but I'm finally giving it up as a lost cause. I'd hoped that it would get better but instead it gets sillier and sillier, literally cartoonish. Unrealistic, it often contradicts itself within just a few pages. The bad guys are caricatures of evil. No remorse and entirely sociopathic. Genocidal monsters, so monomanical in their lust for power that it seems to be a job requirement... That the author hopes for monetary compensation for this pathetic effort is embarrasing. Thank goodness for kindle unlimited. It's high rating is inexplicable.
573102
I bought this book based on the positive reviews it received just to be totally blindsided by how truly awful it was. It did by the end have some potential to be a decent book but it was never pulled together and the ending just left me thinking, seriously?!

The old man's part was very crass and had, what seemed like, a lot of filler. Some of the things just didn't make any sense and jumped from one topic and time to another with no explanation.

The little girl's part didn't flow at all. Most of the paragraphs were numbered with headings with no reason given for this. Maybe it was supposed to be like she was writing in her survival book? Also some of the headings seemed to have nothing to do with the actual paragraphs under it.

The transition from person to person was really rough and just seemed off. It did not flow at all. It goes from an old man, to a child, to a man who's already dead, to a different child. It jumps around in time with no explanation. I had trouble figuring out what was going on because of the time jumps and rough transitions. Also it was very poorly written as far as punctuation and fragmented sentences go. I am by no means a grammar snob but please use quotations and new paragraphs when people are speaking, and if you choose not to do that, at least keep you method consistent. The most used, and by used I mean overused, sentence in the book is: And yet. It drove me crazy that the author and/or editor did not understand what a comma is meant for. And last but not least, there were Hebrew and Russian and some other languages sprinkled throughout with no explanation of what it meant. I just didn't care for it at all and it was NOT what I expected in the least!
974864
This was a horrible movie!  I can not believe I sat all the way through it (I was hoping it would get better...IT DIDN'T. Save your money and get something else
2907859
Terrible....contrived melodrama so lacking in realism its almost laughable.  Part One had potential, even though the prose left a lot to be desired.  But from the first word of Part Two through the last tortured sentence, it was all downhill.  None of the characters  were believable, especially Sally, who undergoes a complete change in character literally over night.  The dialogue is insulting.  The story line juvenile.  I literally forced myself to finish the last third just so I could write this review and not be accused of giving up too soon.