You've got to be kidding me...
346943
I wasn't going to write a review for this book, but looking at some of the one star reviews changed my mind. This book isn't merely about the 'life of an American Idol runner-up', it's about how the life of an amazing, talented, young man whose words inspire other people, including me. How Clay could overcome the hardships of his childhood is incredible to me. So, anyone who gave this book 1 star either didn't give this book a chance, or has a perfect life. My uncle has autism, and the fact that Clay cares so much for people with special needs is so heartwarming. Also, not suprisingly, Clay is a very good writer!
4162204
What? You mean every group of friends don't plaster on the makeup and short shorts, stock up on a tasty vintage red wine, and vacation in the Florida Everglades? I mean, isn't that on every person's bucket list?

This movie was a horrendously insulting joke even before it began. To think someone actually pitched this movie to an investor (asking for the $48 it took to make it) and thought it was a viable story for a movie...is troubling to say the least.

Something like this?

Investor - "Hmm, well that sounds really good but I don't think the dangers of the Everglades is enough to really capture the viewer's attention. Deadly gators, snakes, panthers and various other wild animals aren't threatening enough.

Writer/Producer/Director - "Well I guess we could just copy Deliverance and have some toothless, inbred rednecks who terrorize the former sorority girls with horrendous southern accents?"

Investor - "OK, but you have to name one of them Bubba."

Writer/Director/Producer - "Well, of course, that's a given."

Investor - "Well missy, you have yourself a deal. Make that movie!"

Writer/Director/Producer <to herself> - Great. Now where am I going to find a cast of awful actors, and a sound person and editor with no technical expertise at all? Oooo, I know. My friends!"
2624634
When you get an over-the-top title like, "Women Who Make the World Worse : and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports" in your hand, you expect some fine entertainment.  I mean, it has to be a joke, a parody of the Anne Coulter screeds, right?

Except what is really sad is that Kate O'Beirne seems to actually believe this line of crap.

Poor, self-loathing Kate, it seems, wants women to be barefoot and pregnant -- but to not enjoy the sex to get there -- and to keep the hubby happy.  She is merely an accessory, an arm trophy, and I suppose when the seasons change and the little woman is dumped for a newer model, well, that's ok too.

Why do books like this get published at all?  How come decent writers struggle all the time to get in print, and this sort of mendacious bilge can make its way into the culture.  It does not speak well of us at all.

And as for Kate, well, I hope her fondest dreams come true and she gets what she so desperately wants: complete subjugation.  She's shown she deserves it.
1987494
This abridgement is a joke. I generally am not a fan of abridgements in the first place. However, since Robinson Crusoe is such an excellent book and I would like to have my kids familiar with the general outline at a younger age, I thought, "Maybe it won't be so bad."

Well it certainly is. Whether people like Christianity or not, you can't "abridge" Crusoe's struggle with the faith (and understanding of Providence) out of the story without making it a different book. And the hyper-sanitation is laughable. OK, I get that most don't want the gory cannibalistic details. But Crusoe is knocking out natives and tying them up instead of killing them when he saves Friday. Really? I what next, does he leave them to starve...tell their friends, "Please take him when you leave." And it is beyond stupid, and unfaithful to the story!, that Crusoe seems to trust Friday with his life immediately.

This abridgement is so bad that I am going to throw it away so that no kid has to read this particular copy of this tragedy.

You want to know what this "classic start" is? It is like looking for a way to get your kid to appreciate steak, and then some moron tells you to start him on SPAM.

Don't waste your time or money. This abridgement would be detrimental to your child's appreciation of literature. Carve off some of the actual steak. Summarize the slower parts, avoid the gore (but don't hide the real danger and ruin the story), and actually read the classic and not some plastic knock-off.
1270849
A very poor attempt at comedy.
I mean, it's laughable, but not in a "ha-ha" kind of way.
More like watching a retarded person stumble along not knowing where they are or what they're doing. You look for someone who helps them but no one is around. It becomes a scene of pity.
That's what this book is.
The author is certifiably insane, but the ones I really have pity for are those that actually believe her baseless, asinine claims.
Instead of buying this book, take all the change you have in the house, drop it into a sport sock, swing it around and smack yourself in the face with it.
Trust me, that will hurt less than reading this drivel...
2325601
I'm on chapter five or so, and I just can't torture myself any longer.  I bought this book based on its starred review in Publisher's Weekly.  If it's starred, it's gotta be good, right?  Um, no.  The author tries too hard to be funny, but when you're not, you're not.  The main character, with whom we're supposed to sympathize, is cracking jokes about her husband who died unexpectedly a few weeks earlier.  Everything is a joke--her husband's death, the murder at the office, the mobster threatening to hurt her children.  So, unless the reader can relate to these hysterical circumstances, the book is just page after page after page of sophomoric humor.
1221777
I didn't read carefully enough. $7.99 for a ** 24 ** page book??? Not on your life. I failed to read the product information carefully enough and I failed to read the views carefully enough. As a previous reviewer said, there's nothing 'new' in here. My only 'excuse' for purchasing this wretched thing is that I was very ill with pneumonia at the time but didn't know it. I just thought I was tired from an emergency out-of-state trip. Well, I must have been OUT-OF-MY-MIND to waste money on this.
278865
could there be zero stars in this product's  future?  I was duped by thiose whosaid this was a realistic camera and an even bigger dupe is that the cameras were installed. Don't get me wrong, I love China, I have been there and love the Chinese people,  but this time they have stepped out of line. This product needs to be renamed, "Fake" and nothing more. It is worthless and will only take upyour time opening the box, laughing at your stupidity in purchasing it and then having it returned. Re-read the copy where it says "dummy", that describes anyone who orders these.
1583275
This book has to be a joke?  And the 180+ reviews, most of them 5 star?  I am sad to say that my book club chose this book.  Clearly we didn't look into it enough before voting.  I am no grammarphile, I just read for the enjoyment of it, but this "book" was worse than terrible.  The grammar, the ridiculous dialogue,typos, I must be missing something here.  The story was not interesting, it didn't come together, I really can not say enough things about how bad and ridiculous it is.  I borrowed it from the kindle lending library and am sorry I wasted my one book/month on it.  At least I'm not out any money.  Really, I don't think that this even a real book.  My 5th grader could have written better.  I still think it's some kind of joke but can't figure out who has written all the good reviews.  I'm stumped and was clearly duped by this whole thing.  =(
4468580
Five minutes into this movie I realized I was in trouble.  Eight minutes and I began my own "slipstream" with the fast forward button!  I wasn't about to waste my time HOPING this movie would turn around.  And yes, like many others here, I was baffled, to say the least, that our beloved world class actor Anthony Hopkins wrote, directed, and starred in this "film".

Actually, I ordered this film by mistake.  I meant to get the other Slipstream movie, the one with Mark Hamill in it.  I guess I clicked the wrong box and this is what arrived.  Oh well, it's got Anthony Hopkins in it, probably gonna be good.  Not.  Afterward, I grabbed the packing sheet thinking to return it and realized the used copy I ordered cost $0.01. Yes, folks, just a penny (though $2.99 standard shipping).  That should have been a clue.  Actually, that should have been a BRIGHT NEON WARNING LIGHT.  A store selling a dvd for a penny...??!  Then again, I wasn't smart enough to catch that, so it may say something about my lack of intellectual prowess.

Hey, I respect each person's right to an opinion, and to those who liked or loved this film, more power to you.  For me, it was so bad it was a waste of a penny.
1769168
I am offended that Amazon would even dare to send me a recommendation for CRAP like this, just because in the past I have previously purchased books on current events. Those were written by SANE people. There's a difference.

This republican habit of projection, accusing the other side of all the crimes of which they know perfectly well that they themselves are guilty, is getting pretty stale, is it not?

I suppose that anyone stupid enough to still be duped by this sort of "conservative" snake-oil, this self-serving rhetoric of the greedy, power-mad few, deserves to be conned out of everything that makes life good. They just don't have a right to drag the rest of us down too.
2899160
Disclosure: unlike other individuals, I purchased this useless "guide" with my hard earned cash, therefore this truly IS an unbiased review.

I don't think I can be as eloquent as some of the other reviewers, who like myself, feel like they were duped by this so-called "guide".  I fell for the fact that it was supposedly an updated 2016 edition, the latest and greatest.  What a bunch of hogwash!  My favorite part of this book, and I'm being blatantly sarcastic when I type that, was the section of examples of what I can ask Alexa.  It took 10 pages, which incidentally took up 1/4 of each of those pages, to ask things like, "Alexa, who is Jack Daniels?", "Alexa, who is the president?" yes, okay, okay, we get it.  We're all relatively intelligent human beings, I don't think we needed 10 pages of questions to get the point across.  You can find more comprehensive information online than in this "guide".  I'm irritated that I paid the $ 3.24 to read this crap on my Kindle, I would have been furious if I had bought the paperback.

Btw, if you glance at the review histories of most of the people who raved about this book, you'll notice that they've "reviewed" some of the same products, products like this one, that they received at a "promotion" or "sale" or at a "discount".  Then there are the individuals who have kept their reviews very vague with a sentence or two.  Very suspect indeed.  Pay attention to how many have used "Amazon Customer" as their ID as well, how laughable and shady!  My review of this nothing "guide" was quickly deemed not helpful because I stated facts and my review was truthful.  If I save someone else from spending money on this joke, then I did a good thing.
3254419
I'm up to about page 100. On every page....literally every page....so far, I have underlined a made-up fact, total distortion of a situation or the most inane interpretation of the Constitution I've ever seen. Irony and hypocrisy are very easy to find as well.

Also...BOR has a habit of conjuring dead people to endorse his madness. He claims that JFK and RFK would be closer to his way of thinking than to Ted Kennedy's. He claims Peter Jennings liked him very much. He claims Charles Dickens and John Adams would be on his side too.

Oh...and Tiny Tim, too.

So dead people and a fictional character from a 19th century book....that's all he could get so far to back him up. But I'm not done yet.

He cites three live journalists who think his stuff is great. And two of them are Liz Smith and Cindy Adams....gossip columnists.

This guy is pathetic.
3266363
I just blew $13 on this crappy little 8-page pamphlet. I always thought of Harlan as a man of integrity. But publishing this rip-off has destroyed my admiration. Now I feel robbed and rapped. Harlan, send me my thirteen bucks back!
23256
To be honest, I haven't finished all six "episodes" -- I have one to go. However, I have no hope of it redeeming this story. DC has gathered together (as they put it) some of the finest writers, directors, and artists to fill in some of the gaps between "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight." They need not have bothered. This DVD is pure slop. The opening art is so horrific, that a five-year-old could have done it. It appears to have been done by the same person who brought us "Batman: The Long Halloween." Now, I could be wrong as THAT art made me what to retch and I wasn't interested in finding out anything about it. I can't possible figure out why DC would give that guy another project. (Oh, wait. Of course, he's nouveau; he's fresh; he's cutting edge! My gosh we should all bow to the triumph of his artistic achievement.) Yeah, and the emperor's new cloths had every one gasping and praising the designers, too. Face it, folks: the only lead in to "The Dark Knight" is how DC was able to con the public into thinking something of value was being released and get us to cough up $20-plus and THEN we realize, the joke's on us. Gotta love that Joker (Heath Ledger is laughing at us from the great beyond!)
1338365
Stop ! Don't even spend  the $ 00.01 cents your paying for this pseudo-inane pictorial of non-connective photos. This should be a free insert when you BUY a Yakima Canutt book of substance.  Even at that you'll likely say to your self; what in the .... is this !  This publication is the work of a comedy writer (Bob Hope, et.al ). and this is comical if you, like me pay'd a penny for this drivel. And, worse yet and to the point, this really IS an insult to Yakima Canutt, the best movie stunt man and originator of the magnitude of film stunt-work even to this day, and maybe of all time since most film "stunt work" is predominately non-hazardous digital computer foolery. Yes, there are some stunt experts around, but no one with the volume of work of this exceptional man. It would have had value if Yakima Canutt's sons (2) had qualitatively signed this. But, maybe that they didn't tells the sad story.  Mr. Stef Donev may well be a nice guy, but we would be better served had this never been published ----------- even for 7 years olds.
2222280
You have got to be kidding me!  I did read the reviews that say this is a scam, but I read the listing very carefully and linked to the FAQ by the owner.  That link verified that this is, in fact, a set of 6 which it should be for the price.  Amazingly, I received one lonely storage box, a $12. value for $70+.  Wow, how does this listing stay on your website?  Dont you have higher standards than this vendor?  Ive done business with you for many years and this is the first time Ive been so badly burned.  But what worries me about your Market Place vendors is that a lot of other people have had the same experience and yet you continue to offer this vendors products.  I rely on your commitment to customer service and satisfaction and felt that if you are still offering this you endorse this vendors code of ethics and vouch for their standards.  Oops...guess Im wrong!  Youre slipping in the rankings of my online sources.  I simply don't have the time to process a purchase multiple times.  This is the second purchase within 2 weeks from you that Ive had a problem.  Time to move on before this happens again.  You once were tops in my book...bummer!