Question: Title: Extremely Disappointing Review: This is my last Patterson novel; I've had it. He's been going downhill for awhile and he's at the bottom. This is the poorest writing I've read in a long time; school kids could do as well. It was like reading a diary..short, choppy, no plot, descriptions or fleshing-out of anything. It says he's investigating, but we never know how or what he's doing. No investigation at the crime scenes or anything. You don't know how he found out who the final killer was. All the asides with Nana have nothing to do with anything...just empty filler. I had the feeling he was just whipping this off as fast as he could to get another book out there and get some more money...no research or thought put into it at all. I'm mad at myself for buying it and then reading it. No more. Does this product review convey a negative or positive sentiment?
Answer: Negative

Question: Title: Wish there were more like these! Review: These McGraw-Hill "comprehensive" and/or "specialist" self-training courses are excellent at least for me. When you're trying to really learn how to use a software package there's nothing better than this kind of "case-study" based material with included practice lessons on CD. This kind of book (course, really) can be used in conjunction with an instructor-led course too. However, if you cannot find a good course in your area, or cannot afford one, these books are the best for learning on your own.Too bad Office 2003 appears to be the last edition M-H serviced in this way, but it's probably expensive to constantly update the training material.Anyway, I'm glad I found them (took a lot of researching!). Once one learns the Office '03 version of, say, Excel well enough to pass the MS specialist exam, learning the "what's new" in Office '07 shouldn't be difficult at all. Does this product review convey a negative or positive sentiment?
Answer: Positive

Question: Title: A mystery...how poor writers get recognition as authors! Review: Anne Tyler is so much lauded as a wonderful author...well, it just beats me how that has happened. A occasional good turn of a phrase does not make a great author! Ladder of Years...this plot is weak, the characterizations shallow, the ending implausible, the dialogue tedious. I only finished reading it because it was an assignment for our book club. All this business about Tyler writing about a slice of life... it isn't a slice of anybody's life I could imagine. Could Delia really walk back in from her 18-month totally selfish disregard of her family and they would act like she was just returning from a weekend out of town? Only in a novel in which the author is too lazy to do any real writing. Does this product review convey a negative or positive sentiment?
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