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: His worst novel Product review: After liking all of Nick Hornby's other novels I was greatly disappointed in this book. Whether it were the narrative device of telling the story via the voice of each of the four characters in turn or the shear unlikablility of some of the characters, but I found just getting to the end of this novel to be a challenge. Read, one of his other books, this is easily his worst.
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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: Lots of Promise and NO Payoff Product review: This recorder has lots of promise - good price, great features. Too bad you can't get it to work when you buy it. I have had two units, and now it is going back for refund. The machine locks up - no button functions, the disk is inside the tray and will not come out. Turn it off, unplug it, push every button - still locked up - BOTH units did the same thing. Each time after an attempt at a timer record. You will see lots of mention of lock up on reviews of this machine - I wonder if anyone has one that actually works - if so, your odds are 1,000 to 1 that you will get the one that works. VERY DISAPPOINTING, especially when you are looking forward to owning a DVD recorder. I do not understand how a company can sell a product that does not work.
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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: I love night moves. Product review: I love Bob Seger's music. This is the classic music I grew up with. Night moves, Mary Lou and more.Sunspot baby still cracks me up!
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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: The Ending SUCKED Product review: This book is strong on character development but weak on alternate history. Please note, the ending was horrible. With the Nazis on the cusp of a nuclear attack on their unsuspecting Japanese aly, Mr. Dick chose to leave us hanging. I acknowledge this novel/alternate history story was written in 1962, a period in which authors attempted to "wow" their readers with sophisticated, nuvo, hanging endings but give me a break. I can envision bohemian hipsters with black cigarette holders dangling from the corner of their lips exclaiming with their best Thirsten Howell, accent, "Philip is the most spectacular writer, darling,...". So come on, ending such a riveting story with a woman walking away from an alternate history aruthor's house is plainly egotistical laziness. I wish I hadn't wasted my time reading the inappropriatley titled "The Man in the High Castle."
