Ques: 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: The depressing truth Product review: There has been much argument on whether ravens books are authentic strega or italian flavored wicca. Both claims are true as you will see as I explain it. What you are actually learning about in his books is a tradition he founded in 1981 that he calls the aridian tradition. It is a blend of some elements of the Triad traditions and Modern wicca. He even says this in his book italian witchcraft if you read the intro on page xvi,He admits that these are modern rites and not old world rites. He also admits he was not taught strega by his family and he wasnt raised in a strega famly. His mother did teach him some italian folklore and magick tho. But he learned strega from outside teachers. What he presents is an outer court version of an italian tradition. He admits he cant publish pure strega as hed be breaking oaths. Dont believe me check out his website he explains it all. If ya need the link email me and ill sent it.
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Ques: 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: Buy the book Product review: If you bought the book "Master Cleanser" don't bother buying the CD. It is a waste of money, as he is not really adding anything new. The book is $5.
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Ques: 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: Shoe leaks Product review: Shoes are confortable, fit larger than expected, but no big deal. Problem is - they leak. On the first rainy day, I discovered my socks were soaking wet.Really disappointed. I have a Wolverine Oxford lace-up with no issues for 3 years. As these shoes are starting to wear, I purchased the Neptune as a replacement.I don't know if I can even return these as I only discovered the problem after wearing them for a week, not to mention I am looking at half the price I paid to ship them back from Canada to the US.
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Ques: 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: Amusing Potboiler Product review: Learn to eliminate excess verbiage, and continue learning the English language and other topics also.There, I have saved you the price of this book. As others have pointed out, the writer is a coach or cheerleader and as such may be quite effective. However, I got the impression he was a bit of a hack himself, in a position for many years such that he was paid whether he wrote well or badly. I suspect those days are gone.I lost most of my confidence in him gradually except when he began to enthuse about his "Webster's Dictionary" which I know as a generic term, i.e., nearly useless. There is no "Webster's" company, it has become a generic term for a large number of INFERIOR dictionaries. It is bad advice, and that is when I lost the big chunk of any remaining confidence in the value of his book.Much of it would be useful, in lieu of any other instruction, for a high school student or college freshman. There are better books to recommend, however.
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