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: Coupland Dropped The Ball On This One Product review: I have loved Douglas Coupland for years, so when this book came out I was plenty excited for it. What a disappointment. The story was choppy, amateurish, and this book has the single worst ending of any book I've ever read. A complete waste of time. I threw this book off my balcony when I was done because it was just so bad I couldn't stand to have it in my apartment for one more moment. Read Generation X, Shampoo Planet, Microserfs, or All Families Are Psychotic, but stay away from this one if you know what's good for you. Sorry Douglas, but the ending was just so awful and disappointing that I'm still not over it over half a decade later.
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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 great Travelouge -- entertaining and informative Product review: As an Indian reader my strong conviction is that Mr. Wimmel has done justice to the subject with lot of research and supplementing it with first hand experiences while serving in various parts of Asia including India. Of course I do wish if Nepal and Bhutan was also included it would have been of a greater interest to wider cross section of Asians interested in such informative travelogues. The author has really done justice to the subject. Inclusion of historic pictures depicting the active participation of Cartographers of "Survey of India Department" of Govt. of India has really added to the authencity of the travelogue. A great book to read in a long week-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: What would you expect, a confession? Product review: For some reason, I actually thought that Bob McNamara would come clean in this film. The hope was that we would finally get an explanation about the Vietnam fiasco from one of its architects. But life doesn't work so cleanly. Things are more complicated than that. And so he still hides behind that good ol' executive privilege.So instead we are treated to a philosphical discourse on how evil can masquerade as good intentions and misbegotten strategy. Although the news media has trivialized the comparison, the hidden value of this film, then, is that it points out the lessons we are currently experiencing in Iraq. Once again Santayana was correct: we relive other folks' mistakes over and over again, no matter how often we say "I told you so."
