Question: 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: Alexandra - The Made for TV Movie in Book Form Product review: On the positive side, the narrative in 'Alexandra - the Last Tsarina' certainly offers a sense of high drama. But after a while, we get a very wooden impression of its characters - or is that caricatures? Nicholas II is very much a secondary figure here, served chiefly by the heterodox assertion that he was a weak ruler. The sentence 'She worried about Alexei' becomes an almost banal, repeated understatement.One wonders if this book was really meant to read like an historical novel produced for the mass market. It certainly does, and this may explain the factual errors, truncations of time, and elisions of events that make the text so difficult for admirers of the last Tsar and his family to read through without a growing disappointment. Granted, Robert Massie and his thorough treatment is a hard act to follow, but if the present book was fiction, why didn't someone say so?
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Question: 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: animal activist nonsense Product review: This guy has no interest in science or nutrition. He's just peddling the PETA anti-meat pro-vegetarian line. The book is full of half-truths intended to scare people away from a diet that contains animal proteins. This book is a waste of money.I'd give this book a zero rating but the lowest available is 1.
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Question: 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: Tripe! Pure tripe! Product review: I cannot believe that I paid nearly thirty dollars for this gothic PoS. I was beguiled by an author interview I heard. Full of improbable coincidences and even more improbable characters, this book reads like a very poor imitation of Dickens. The writing is plodding and kitschy. Another reviewer rates this book "...up there with The daVinci Code." Therein lies a tale, as I rate it subterranean - even Hadean - with TdVC. If you like the earlier PoS, you'll prolly like this one, too.But I like my fiction firmly plotted and planned. No innumerable and impossible coincidences for me. Save your money AND your time.
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