Q: 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: Cheesy, full of holes, and stinks like gorgonzola Product review: A short parable about adapting to the inevitable need for change. The two mice in the story instinctively go off and look for new cheese when the old cheese is no longer supplied. Of the 2 humans, one eventually moves on and the other stays put. This takes up the middle 3rd of the book.The other 2/3rds deal with either with people at a class reunion or the author himself saying how wonderful and moving the parable is. Groan - this is just the author marketing the book to the reader trying to convince them to buy copies for their friends or use it in corporate training.Spencer co-authored "The One Minute Manager". Need I say more? Make an executive decision and give this one a pass.
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Q: 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: Don't waste your money Product review: The "training guide" covers the high points on the exams. If you already know everything the exams cover then this book would help pull it all together for you. But by no means does it "offer(s) complete preparation for taking and passing the Microsoft Certified Professional Exams 70-160 and 70-161," as it claims on the back cover. That is pretty much a bunch of BS. I passed 160 today and am taking 161 tomorrow. I would say this about where my knowledge came from:40% Experience programming in VB and Access35% MSDN readings (mostly on stuff I had heard of but not used)20% Transcender tests (make me aware of stuff I haven't heard of)5% MS Press Training Guide. (I needed the numbers to add up to a hundred<G>)Just my two cents, but I think your money is best spent on MSDN and Transcender.
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Q: 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: Sophomore Novel Riding the Coattails of its predecessor Product review: Scott Smith, the writer of _A Simple Plan_, returns with his sophomore novel, _The Ruins_. Unlike his previous novel, this one is neither interesting, smart, nor inventive. I was deeply disappointed by the novel. The lengthy, reflective writing burdened the book with unneeded introspection. The agent of horror was not at all scary and rather comical at times. The promise of the novel never truly materializes. The setting had such a wonderful promise, indeed it has been covered by better authors elsewhere, yet this author chose to emphasize the individuals to such an extent, that the thrill of the novel soon dissipates. By the 150th page, I was reading only to complete the novel. This novel has gone the way of most sophomoric works
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Q: 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: -HELLO- Product review: DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND DON'T GET THIS I MEAN THERE'S NOT 1 JIMI HENDRIX SONG ON HERE I MEAN I KNOW THIS IS POP COLLECTION BUT HEY 1951-1975 WHO ARE THE AMETURES THAT PUT THESE TOGETHER I AM THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO CARES ABOUT MUSIC..?
