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Here is a review left by a customer on a product. Would you say he was satisfied or dissatisfied? Title: Ham-fisted and completely lacking in nuance Review: [...]In "The City and the Pillar" Vidal makes every symbol a bludgeon and beats his readers over the head with it. (Hint: the pillar is a phallic symbol!)The structure of the novel is practically outlined in bullet-points before each chapter. When, at the climactic moment he tells us that the circle is complete (actual phrase!) and that this is the climax of the novel, I threw the book at the wall.The book might be appropriate as a Young Adult novel for a struggling gay teenager reading years below his or her grade level, but I'd hesitate there too. It's got all the nuance and subtelty of a YA novel, but it really does try to be an actual piece of literary fiction. Shame, because it could almost be a decent after-school special.
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Here is a review left by a customer on a product. Would you say he was satisfied or dissatisfied? Title: How not to write a book Review: I bought this book to write the FRM exam. It is the worst possible written book that I have ever seen. Even the topics that I have a very good knowledge of (e.g. Duration, Convexity etc.) are written in such a disjointed fashion that I could not recognise them. The author uses symbols without describing them, the passages have no relevance to the examples which in turn cannot be connected to the solutions. It was a great disappointment. I wonder if anybody at GARP ever reviewed it before recommending it as a text for the FRM exam.
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Here is a review left by a customer on a product. Would you say he was satisfied or dissatisfied? Title: Poor Quality Review: I had the original VCR. It is a five star movie. I bought the new released DVD and the quality is bad. Everything has an orange cast. Who every reproduced this did a poor job.
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