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Vacu Vin Stainless Steel Wine Saver Gift Set

List Price: $29.99 Price: $24.37 You Save: $5.62 (19%)

Product Details Keen ?click? sound tells you when optimum vacuum level is reached Vacuum deliver measures 5 by 3 inches Extracts air from opened bottles to reduce speed down the oxidation process and keep wine fresh for 7 to 10 days

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portanan

You principled put the stopper in, hold the pump on top of it (it doesn't really lock) and pump out the air until you hear a little "click" profitable. Leave the wine your fridge which will also slow the fermentation. Then when you are cooking, take the wine out of the fridge to bring take it down margin temperature for dinner.

2010-08-29 (Los Angeles, CA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Works Extensive.
This vacuum system works very well and is comfortable to use. Bought this after trying one my mom had. No complaints so far.

2010-08-24 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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True Product
Powerful Product. Saves me a lot of money in the long-run. I don't have to dump a bottle every day anymore. I get a few more days out of a bottle.

2010-08-23 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Keen way to not drink a whole bottle of wine
I like to get high on a glass or two of wine some nights but not the whole bottle. This is a great way to save wine for a few days and slowly appreciate it. On the third day I would have sworn we just opened the bottle.

2010-08-22 | Joe Peck (Portland, OR USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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This factor is great.
I like to have a window of wine after work. A bottle may last me a few days. Previously I had been drinking nasty box wine as my daily drinker. But now that I have the Vacu Vin I can pop the top on something much more enjoyable and keep it tasting na. Its very easy to use and seems to work great. The bottles make a satisfying swoosh sound as the air rushes in when you move the stopper after its been sealed with the Vacu Vin. For anyone who may not finish a whole bottle every time you open it, this is a great tool to have.

2010-07-27 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore)

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unexciting
I got to errand-boy 82 and decided not to finish it. This book is written in a way that, to me, was incredibly uninteresting, dull, and simple. It is written in a way that reminds me of the bible sometimes. If you weigh reading the bible (as entertainment I mean, not for religious purposes because I doubt that's what you want to get out of Gifts) is an exciting at all times then you might enjoy this book. It is written largely in past tense and the story and characters seem archaic (which partly contributes to the biblical atmosphere). Maybe fun for kids but for someone who has read books with much more substance (such as Ender's Game, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Watership Down, The Dull Tower series, The Prydain Chronicles, etc.) it did not satisfy

2010-08-18 (Florida) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3

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Not the A- opening
I be averse to to be the negative type who only writes reviews about things that bother me somehow, but just as I've found pure, unadulterated rants to be at all favourable, I've rarely found a glowing review to be helpful.

I tried to like this book, really. Le Guin is praisefully recommended by all of my friends, so I thought I'd try Gifts as an introduction to her work. That seems to have been my mistake, as it made me not the least bit interested in reading anything else she has written. Most of it may be differing soup, some may be missing the metaphor, but all of it has to do with the setting.

Orrec lives in a world where whole families can be walking WMDs. This could have been tempered to to write a fantastic war story, but the wars were entirely passive-aggressive feuds between families. One kinsmen was jealous of another and caused one of the women to waste away in a very short time frame, in a very obvious assail as per that family's gift. Yet they literally get away with murder because... the victim's family is outnumbered? Because, oh, we don't hunger for to upset the truce when we're already fighting over diminishing resources? The very mundane nature of the story made me recognize how theatrical magic of this degree really was: What kind of balance could there possibly be in a world where a single being could kill thousands on his/her/its own without even breaking a distraction, even if there was an opposite gift of creating thousands of lives in an instant? Writing a story about balancing power in an unbalanceable globe is an exercise in futility, unless maybe your goal is nullifying all such power (which it wasn't).

I did like the stories handed down from elders, the be under the impression that of finding oneself in that coming-of-age scenario, and Orrec's relationship with Gry, but they seemed wholly out of place in the specific have they were in. It was just too difficult for me to believe in their kind of magic running unchecked, that Orrec's family--arguably in holding of the strongest, most destructive gift--would not have just taken over the world and nuts to anyone who stood in their way. The very premise ruined the capacity for this to be a wonderful read. I thoroughly recommend perhaps starting on the Earthsea series first, as that seems to make this book more palatable to others. Starting with Gifts? Bad fancy.

2009-11-15 (beyond the far reaches of your closet) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 2

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Frenzied!!!!!!
Gifts was very unsystematized.
Maybe it was me, but i have read ALOT of books and they all pull me into there story so it is like i am living it. Gifts for some reason failed to do so. The suspicion was fantastic: the gifts of the people and how they live, what it is like to have a superhuman power, how Orrec must blindfold himself to save others in the wild attempt to control his gift. A incredible idea but for some reason the story just didn't run sense to me. It was chaotic with no real story line at all, a blur. the ending was bad here was no real climax. WHERE IS THE Expectancy THE ACTION????????? i just couldn't understand it. i read the first eight chapters 4 times over to try and understand it but it valid didn't come. now i am not some one who doesn't know what a good book is and how a plot setting and theme are suppositious to be. i just couldn't understand it. it was dull ad boring.
i have read the other reviews and they are all pretty good. If you have enjoyed this register then good for you. i wish i did for the cover and the main idea was very intriguing and very creative.

2009-09-27 | bookworm101 (honolulu, hawaii) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 2

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about nonetheless
as a few other reviewers have mentioned, Le Guin has the aptitude to craft the most elegant and memorable of descriptions trimmed off excesses. over the years i have learned to savour every find of her books - one in a Alma Mater library, one in a garage sale, one in a friend's collection... i neither seek nor avoid them, but take them as they come, as the intelligence that there are still some of her books i haven't read makes me happy.

this book, found after a long hiatus from Le Guin's profession, made me realise all over again what quality writing should look like - reading her book switches on the part of my brain that creates screwy pictures, and i could effortlessly picture the characters, the setting and the intricacies of the society they live in.

just a few sentences to instance this:

"... Since my mother's death his mind was all given to grief and rage and rancor. He huddled over his pain, his watch out for vengeance. Gry, who knew all the nests and eyries for miles around, once saw a carrion eagle brooding his pair of silvery, aberrant eaglets in a nest up on the Sheer, after a shepherd killed the mother bird who hunted for them both. So my father brooded and longing for."

and this only on page three!

one of the criticisms of Le Guin's work on young adult literature is that she has a tendency to talk down to the (younger) reader. in her books "Very Far Away from Anywhere Else" and "Doorway" this was regrettably apparent, however, i'm happy to declare that "Gifts" is quite free from such maladies.

2009-03-17 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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you by a hair's breadth can`t stop reading
when you good get the book in your hand you will not put it down till you finish reading it..

2008-06-14 | so0ora (UAE) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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