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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: Ah well... Product review: It is true, "Sphinx" is an enjoyable book. It is a quick read and Cook obviously took great care to portray ancient Egypt correctly. Only cynics would say he lets some of his books take place where he had his last vacation. Anyway, opening the story by letting it start during the time of the construction of the pyramids themselves was a great idea.Now to the bad point, which reoccurs in just about all of Cook's novels: coincidences. How plausible is it that our main protagonist, an egyptologist, gets lost in Cairo, stumbles into an antiques store which just at that time has a golden statue of Seti I, whose value is so high it is undeterminable, in its back room and whose owner gets assassinated for having the statue just as our brave egyptologist is at the place? I bet Cook could have come up with something better to get the otherwise nice plot together at the beginning.But again, "Sphinx" is an enjoyable book and far above some of the other works Cook publishes nowadays.
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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: lock up child molesters Product review: this guy is a sick mental freak and should be locked up immediately.He actually gets his rocks off by genitally mutilating little boys.Mothers point him out to their children when he appears on TV as a sexual deviate and warn them to keep away from the likes of him.He is exactly like the monster that tried to lure me away into the bush so many years ago.
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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 what you are wanting Product review: computer created, frequently words run together with no spacing- goofy computer generated information lines occasionally, no illustrations- just not a book lovers book- a poor reproduction
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