Advantages: Its quite short Disadvantages: Where do I start
of the guys who was meant to be helping him, he looses it. Not only does he want to get the room mates chucked out of university but also split up the new relationship between Dave and Angela. Does he succeed? Do the guys turn the tables on him? Does true love find its way? Do we really care?
I was talked into getting Slackers after a friend recommended it, with the line "It's like American Pie, but with intelligence". Oh what a mistake, maybe I misheard him, but Slackers is definitely not an intelligent version of American Pie. I can see the similarities, the stars of the film are 3 university students, a nerd and a beautiful girl and there is plenty of over the top gags which would fit into an American Pie movie. But unlike American Pie, Slackers doesn't gel as a decent film. First of the problems is that although the film is set in the real ...
christianfilmcritic 21.03.2006
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Advantages: Fun short book Disadvantages: Small writing
for would Mr Lazy be able to get Mr Busy and Mr Bustle to become more lazy?
MY OPINION
This is another great fun little book in the collection. My boys love listening to me read about how lazy Mr Lazy is and the illustrations help to show this and help to keep my 3 year old involved in the book. The book has been written using nice simple words so is easy to follow.
The story is only short and can be read in a few minutes so I am finding that this is an great bedtime read. The book has been set out in a very easy to follow way with the writing on plain white pages on the left hand side of the book and the illustrations on the right hand side of the book. The writing which has been used is quite small which puts new readers off reading the books independently but my eldest is managing very well with some encouragement to do this on his ...
Advantages: Enjoyable read, insight into the Amish life Disadvantages: None that I found
takes so much longer and things can't be done until the cows are milked and the chores are completed. I also enjoyed the courtroom drama and could see this book working well as a film as there is a lot of suspense.
Finally I liked the love story. I can't say too much about this because it would spoil the plot but there is a love story on many different levels. There is a sad story of love that has to be set free but also one of new beginnings.
Quite often I flick through the first part of the book, the bit about the author and the acknowledgement and get right into the story. However I have found that with Picoult's books the information at the start gives a fascinating insight into the novel and her way of writing.
The book is dedicated to her father "who taught me to be an original", I think this is a wonderful irony as here ...
