Steven P. Miller

Awesome thing, 16 Aug 2011

I bought this as a backup gaming machine and media server. It has exceeded my expectations in every respect.

For Lord of the Rings Online it drives my external monitor in 1920*1660 with high definition textures installed.

By turning a few graphic settings below max, (mostly shadows) I get all the frame rate I need. highly recommended.

Barge Poles to the ready, 20 May 2011

Another over-hyped piece of pretentious British Independent dross. Glaring plot holes as mentioned already. At least one major character who just disappears from the film with no explanation. A story whose twists come from the script writer's pen not character, culminating in a ridiculous shock for the sake of shock 'climax'.

A waste of everyone's time and money, including your if you watch it.

More beautiful writing, 19 Jun 2008

Like her previous novel - The Mermaid's Child - 'The Telling' treads the terminator between reality and fantasy with intimations of the supernatural. However this has deep roots in geography (Lancaster and South Cumbria) and history (The Chartist Movement).

Written in first person the story is told through the eyes of a contemporary young woman whose mother has died and whose village cottage needs sorting and a young woman in the 19th century whose family lived in the same cottage and whose lodger, with his books and political beliefs, is an updated Miltonian Satan disturbing the oppressed innocence of the rural 'garden' with the apples of his knowledge.

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