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You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Read a travel guide or read a bodice-ripper, but not this! Product review: While it was an easy read, as most romances are, I found the plot and the events happening therein extremely trite and redundant. A middle-aged woman escapes to Paris with a younger man after finding out her husband has been cheating on her (promising enough) but what ensues are repetitive descriptions of charming French inns, exotic food (if she mentions getting a "grand crème" one more time, I will scream!), and tepid, sentimental erotic encounters. Each chapter plays like the one before it: Lara loves the scenery, Lara loves Dan, Lara experiences self-doubt, Lara and Dan quibble, Lara goes shopping, Lara and Dan make love, Lara feels better. Ugh. Maybe a 7th grader would consider this marginally interesting, but I consider it something that would tire even the most bored, romantically-deprived reader. Check it out at your local library (at your own risk).
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You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Terribly Gross Product review: I bought this seat to potty train my son and it is awful. As several other reviewers said, it just collects pee and is terribly disgusting. In fact, after realizing that even after rinsing it off it still drips urine everywhere, we trashed it. I'm going with something with one piece that is hard plastic. My mom had the same seat at her house for my daughter and maybe it's fine for girls b/c of their physiology, but it does not work for boys. Yuck!!!
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You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Not a very good book Product review: I gave this book "Two Stars" because I have reserved "One Star" for the even worse "Slave Ship" (and "Splinter of the Mind's Eye", should I ever review that)There are some interesting parts in the book. I liked the spider being and the parts with Dengar, but on the whole, I found myself saying every few pages, "Has this author ever read any of the other books? Doesn't he know that.... (fill in what ever inconsistency I had just read)?" The plot was lame, the characters better suited for a comic book, and the inconsistencies with the rest of the SWU just too much to overlook. Read this book only if you are determined to read EVERY Star Wars book (and if you managed to read Dark Saber and Crystal Star, you'll make it thru this one)
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You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Mercy River Desending Product review: When I first bought this CD,I listened to it in it's entirety three x's in a row.The first two songs are good but the record seems to stall after that.It just never kicks in.Mercy River is at "ebb tide" on this one.
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