What a disappointment and a surprise
599468
I had been looking for a reliable flash drives with capacity as low as 2GB. At one time, I stumbled on a set of ten nameless 2GB flash drives on Amazon and only 4 of them worked. What a disappointment and a surprise. I had to throw them away considering the cost of return.
I have been very happy with this set though it's 4GB, but I can still use it in place of 2GB. I have used 4 out of 10 so far and all of them give me excellent performance. I'm really sure that non of them will fail considering that I have also been using higher capacity SanDisk Cruzer Blade from 8GB to 32GB and non has failed before.
I recommend it to anybody without fear.
971281
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Maeve's books when her yarns were spun of silk thread. Unfortunately, in this novel, "Nights of Rain and Stars" Maeve traded in her imported silk threads for polyester. I'm sad to say, it totally fell short and on its face. In past novels, Maeve's yarns unraveled naturally to reveal the tale. This story was utterly simple, way too elementary, far too predicatable, downright unbelievable and much too straight forward. As the reader, I was insulted by the ignorance she perceived her audience to possess. She wove four foreign tourists into the beautiful Greek countryside. Each of them  could have had their own identity but turned out to be flatter than Gumby. No depth. I feel that Ms. Binchy just typed in a few details and names onto a story map from her computer and created this book. How can each of the tourists just happened to be either a mirror image of a Greek character or lead a parallel life? David and Adonis were mirror mages of one another leading parallel lives. The remaining three tourists all bore uncanny bits of their lives to the main character, Vonni. Fiona was the young Vonni with a happier ending. Elsa gave up everything like Vonni to escape. Elsa fled from a man (Deiter) and Vonni fled into a man's (Stavros) arms. Lastly, Thomas and Vonni were estranged from their sons. Thomas knew enough to return to his son,Bill whereas Vonni was hoping against all hope to have her son Stavros return. Prayer was her vehicle. Not action. All in all, I found the novel a disappointment. An easy, somewhat enjoyable read, but lacking realism, interest, complexity and subtleness for Maeve Binchy to have penned it! I expected more.
4521235
What a disappointment.  I had thought this was a story about love and finding that special person to spend your life with.  Instead, this is a story of a woman who is out to "put the hero in his place" by stringing him along so he would truly fall in love with her and then throw him back into the cold waters of reality.  I realize that love is not perfect and the initial process of learning about each other sometimes encounters a bump or two in the road of life but to set out for the purpose of putting someone in there place is not love or even dating. I thought, when I first started reading this book that it would be a good read but I was wrong. After the first four chapters I knew this was NOT a love story and so I set it aside and started on another love/romance story.
279759
I expected much better and longer after 3 years, i read about how he didn't want to work collaborativly with other authors and that he also wanted to change the story to include hurricane Katrina, which would have been spectacular.  However i had my dreams shattered after such a long wait with a book that hints of boredom from the author as well as the complete absence of the hurricane other than a mention in the first chapter as well as some rain throughout the book.  I spend days reading this book cover to cover my hopes high and attention waiting for the final show down between Deuclaion and Victor only to have it trampled with an anti climatic cop out.  The other characters Carson and Michael lost their luster, Michael lost his humor and Carson became a boring one line simpleton.  The characters were only in the book for one tenth of the story compared to the first two.  I have to say i may just burn this one and create an imaginary third book for myself.
Sorry Dean but i would have rather waited for 3 more years than had you write this.
3012897
I was very disappointed,and dismayed that you as a father could do such a thing.and as a Christian father wow
1429799
It was really a disappointment I was expecting something different.  It did not live to the recommendation of a friend.
3547481
I am a fan of John Jakes and have read 8 of his books.  I purchased North & South Trilogy as a used paper back, and expected it to be worn.  I did not expect it to be so worn that dark smudges (mold?) obilterated some of the top sentences on several pages.  I was surprised and very disappointed.
4300167
This was not what I expected......... I was totally disappointed
776435
What a big disappointment! Wasn't even remotely what I expected. Can be used as a fashion statement, but nothing else
3364544
I must've been crazy to order this plant. It was teeny tiny (I realize that was stated) and I never once saw anything vaguely similar to the representation in the description. Very disappointing and a waste of money. I guess buying plants when you can't actually see them isn't too good an idea and I've learned a valuable lesson.
250632
This book was not what I expected.  I expected variety.  I expected variety in the type of items made and variety in the materials used.  Some of the designs are cute, but overall this book turned out to be a huge disappointment.  Ill explain:

Craft A Day is broken down into weeks. Each week, (all 52) has a theme such as snowflake, fox, penguin, circle, ladybug, hexagon, egg, robot, lion, strawberry, diamond, speech bubble, heart, cloud, mustache, flower, rainbow, butterfly, etc.

Then each week has a daily craft.  So for an entire week you are creating something with a snowflake or a strawberry or a square.  Ok, thats not so bad until you realize that they are all made of either felt or paper, and that most weeks you are making the same exact thing with only slight variations.

Lets take the strawberry, for example.  The Mini Strawberry Topper is the exact same craft as the Strawberry Cake Toppers, except with the latter, you're making multiples and cutting them to different heights. (see photos) Thats it. Thats the difference.

The ladybug week was even worse! There are THREE crafts that have you doing nearly the exact same thing!  The Ladybug Pincushion, Plush Ladybug, and Felt Ladybug Ornament are the same size, pattern, and sewing instructions, with only one detail different in each of them. (see photos)

There were many more duplicate crafts like this, especially with the cards and gift tags.  Not to mention, a lot of weeks you're making the same thing you made last week, only in a different shape.  Several of these have not one, but two greeting card designs.  And youve already seen two examples of multiple plush designs with the same theme.

Ive taken the time to go through the entire book and tally the number of cards, gift tags, plush items, etc. that youll be making:

91 Cards
58 Cake/Cupcake Topper
54 Gift Tag
28 Ornament
19 Garland
17 Plush
16 Mobile
12 Wall Art
10 Magnet
6 Gadget Sleeve
5 Barrette
5 Finger Puppet
4 Notebook
4 Photo Stick
4 Stamp
4 Straw
3 Ears
3 Onesie
3 Pincushion (plush)
3 Plant Stick
3 Tote Bag
2 Framed Art
2 Ring
2 T-Shirt
1 Bookmark
1 Headband
1 Mini Ears
1 Placecards
1 Sports Card
1 Sticks
1 Tree
881257
I was all excited to read this and it was a complete let down. Defiantly not what I expected
4715164
Bought this for my 7 year old adopted brother for Christmas...What a disappointment!!...it's so, so small for the big price I had to pay!  I feel ripped off!  Sending this thing back and going to buy him something else!
3277215
So disappointing after her last novel, Me and Emma. This is supposed to be the same characters and story, but the author must have forgotten the most poignant revelation of that first book. Sorry I wasted my time and  money
2827989
A big disappointment.  I was so surprised when I received this as a gift.  But after I plugged it in it was all downhill.

First of all, it kept rebooting itself when I was trying to get it hooked up to my computer.  Because of this, it took me at least a half an hour just to get all the drivers loaded.

Finally, I transferred some music, excellent, no issues.  Then I tried to do movies.

After I unsuccessfully tried to load the digital copies of The Dark Knight, Stepbrothers, Wanted, the Incredible Hulk, and Hellboy II onto the unit, I did some research and found that the Cowon does not support DRM video content.

Just to test this information out I tried other legal media outlets, and its all the same, all DRM, 0 compatibility.  So, unless I want to start pirating movies, I am out of luck here.

I sent this back the next day
2861791
As a fan of post apocalyptic/society collapse type fiction, I was intrigued by the synopsis of this book, believing that this might be something different or unique in the genre. I was extremely disappointed.
First, we are to believe that the hero has foreseen the financial collapse but has made essentially no real preparations for his and his family's survival.( put away a few months worth of food and bought a handgun) But, he has come up with this elaborate plan with his inside knowledge of the banking industry to make a killing at the last minute once the collapse starts, then go on a monumental recruiting and spending spree to establish a "survival community". Definitely not what most people would consider a logical approach. Indeed it is rather foolish on the face of it.
Second, while the author appears to have some knowledge of the banking industry( I can not attest to this as fact, I say only that it appears so on the surface) He has little concept of other topics in the book.
- He refers to making multiple handgun purchases in New York as if ordering 20 or 40(I forget which) Glock handguns wouldn't get you immediate and severe Federal scrutiny besides being questionably illegal in New York.
- He refers to the hero as operating the "safety" on his .357 Magnum revolver. There is no modern revolver that uses a "safety".
You don't have to be a "gun expert" to write about them in a story but at least do a little research.
Third, the entire romance aspect was very inconsistent. There is one extended sex scene that was out of place and did nothing to add to the book. All in all this detracted from the story.
Finally,the book is fast paced and bounces around from character to character a lot, I believe the author was trying to convey how chaotic this scenario may be and that the hero was doing what he should by delegating but a lot could have been made from the other characters actions. Instead there was a lot of "he or she got their list of items done" type of stuff.
One reviewer said something about learning what it really takes to survive a SHTF scenario but there is little or nothing to be learned here.
As I said at the beginning of this review I was looking for something different in the genre but this fell short of my expectations.
2594967
What a disappointment and frustration! As a fan of both science fiction, time travel stories, England, WWII, and the Blitz this seemed a tailor made story and what a let down. There is some good. It does a good job in showing the bits and pieces of personal life during the blitz - trains that would be hours late and descriptions of  Anderson shelters and sheltering in the Underground. However as the book progresses, much of the descriptions are lost in the moaning of the strangely uniformed historians that have time traveled to
London and the surrounding countryside during the Blitz.

One of the huge disappointments were simple mistakes in vernacular English., i.e. cots are baby cribs, not something an adult sleeps in and the biggest historical lapse was claiming Queen Mary said" "The children won't go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave." Queen Mary was King George's mother, his wife, Elizabeth, the queen consort, the mother of the present queen Elizabeth said this and has become one of the legends of morale building during the blitz.

The other huge frustration is that the book just ends and leaves on hanging literally. One almost looks to see if discs or page are missing. This is a horrendous thing to do to a reader and at least makes this one so mad I would not purchase the sequel. It's like false advertising to present to an interested reader an unfinished product