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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: It's not about France Product review: "Something to Declare" is a clever title for a book about travel abroad; but, beyond its opening pages, that's not what this book is about. "Essays on France" is an equally misleading subtitle, for the book's erudite essays (beyond the opening chapter) are not on France but on a narrow selection of French writers and related movers and shakers, and one fictional character: Madame Bovary. After a fast-paced, dazzling opening sequence, hilariously describing the teen-aged Barnes' first encounters across the English Channel, we slow down to pick through some highlights in the lives of some of the top French authors, poets, filmmakers and other cultural icons, eventually easing to a crawl through exhaustive detail regarding the author's main interest, Flaubert and his world. If Madame Bovary is your cup of tea, you may enjoy steeping yourself further in Barnes. For me it was just too much.
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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: rising water Product review: Rising Water is about a car thief that isn't the sort of person you'd expect to find helping out an animal shelter. But to make up for his crime, Kevin is sent to help Tracy and her brother, Luke- and none of them knows what to expect. When heavy winter rains cause the town's levee to break, the teenagers are forced to skip orientation and help with the rescue effort. Within moment they're in a powerboat pack with sandwiches and supplies and out on the water. Their mission runs smoothly until armed thieves, caught in the act of stealing from a flood home, kidnapped Luke. In a heartbeat, the rescue effort turns toward Tracy's brother- and unless she and Kevin can band together, there's no way for survival.
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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: Good but not long-lived Product review: I bought a pair of these and then bought two more when I liked them and they were on sale. Very good sound, comfortable in the ear -- but they are not durable at all. Granted, maybe they're not meant to be wrapped around an iPod and knocked around, but I would've expected them to be. Each pair only lasted about 6 months of daily use, and then the cord must've become separated in the plug part, and that was the end of them.
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