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 quite but close Product review: For those of you who liked the graphic novel, this is close but not quite it. The director does a great job in keeping to the spirit of the story but makes a few unnecessary plot changes I felt. Some of the scenes are taken almost verbatim from the original story and are done remarkably well. As a whole this is not a movie for the timid. These are not the nice quaint Anne Rice Euro-vampires we've all become accustomed to in the last 10 years or so. No Twilight vampire-lite here, this is your old school blood drinkers amped up to an almost savage animal like behavior. This movie starts fast and doesn't let up until the end.
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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: Pretty pictures but no substance Product review: I must agree with "npowers" of Vermont: I, too, was expecting at least a little more prose and some helpful advice on acquiring desirable garden junk, but alas, I was disappointed. The photos are great and perhaps this would make a good coffee table book but buyer beware if you want substance.
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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: A bad trend Product review: The real authors of this book remain uncompensated. Wesley Platt created a theme, yes, but the braintrust behind his income should not be ignored. Wesley Platt may justifiably draw income from the popularity of his vision, but it is unfortunate he forgets that he is not the only voice in that production.
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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: There was book in there somewhere.... Product review: This book reminded me of a Burt Lancaster movie I saw a long time ago called "The Swimmer." Burt swims across Connecticut through his neighbors' pools. The unrelenting emptiness of the suburban lives he encounters forces him to face his own directionless, purposeless existence. Tartt shares the conceit of whomever was behind that film: I am good, not because I am moral or even because I have escaped the hellish treadmill of modern life, but because I am fully aware of our tragic situation and can stand slightly apart, observing from a partially detached and sardonic perspective. I'm not free but I at least know I'm in prison.I kept hoping for hope, expecting a glimmer, seeking a ray of redemption. I rode all half a thousand pages right to the end and was rewarded with ashes and despair. For me, the hopelessness of this tragi-Greek drama made it an unpleasant read. Good writing can only carry a book so far; there has got to be a destination.
