Title: Love it! Review: I did some research prior to buying this cookware and am glad that it has lived up to the hype. At this price, I was prepared to be moderately happy with it. I use a gas range, and this cookware does great with gas. Works better than my Calphalon nonstick. I highly recommend! Is this product review negative?
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Title: This book contains story-like substance. Review: "Story-like" might be too generous. I've gotten used to reading fillers in the Cross series, but this one takes the cake. Really, every other chapter is mindless babbling.It's a true "page turner" for me because the blather got so bad that I just read the first sentence of a CHAPTER then go directly to the last sentence to get a sense of what happened and what's in store for the next one. More often than not, the first sentence is exactly the same as the last.If you took out all the "here we go" and the "what's going on" and the "nothing makes sense" stuffs out of the this book and the previous, I think it's possible to make a somewhat tight story (yes, despite the improbable ineptitude Patterson instilled on everyone in the book not named Wolf), instead of having two really bad ones. Is this product review negative?
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Title: Not Greg Bear's best! Review: Writing as a fan of Greg Bear and many of his previous books, I have to say that this is not one of his best. The premise of an evolutionarily important retrovirus embedded in our genes that drives a sort of punctutated evolution is interesting, but Bear does not pull it off. His book struggles as an unsuccessful mix of a hard science fiction story about a possible new revelation in biology and a story of a relationship between two of the principal characters in the plot. Furthermore, the decidedly anticlimactic ending left me cold, with only a superficial description of the supposed next stage in human evolution, which didn't even seem that remarkable given the long build-up. Disappointing. Is this product review negative?
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Title: Oxygene-starved Review: Method: Take a monster, genre defining album you recorded over 15 years ago, borrow the voicings, polyrhythms and sound effects, rearrange them to slightly (but not *that*) different tunes, crib the album art (cheesy then; cheesier now) and re-release.The point? Well, to The Man, it's obvious. There's one born every minute. But for genuine, discerning afficionados of electronica? Search me. Like a good souffle, it was better the first time.Indeed, inventing Oxygene Parts 7 - 13 is almost as pointless an exercise as going back and re-recording the original album from scratch. And guess what turned out to be Jarre's next project?Whoops! Writer's block, perchance?Olly Buxton Is this product review negative?
