Ques: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: Carlos Castaneda meets Architecture Product review: Having read three out of the four books in this series so far, all I can say is that if you are interested in arbitrary and very personal pseudo-metaphysical remarks about architecture, this is a sort of must-read for you.Do not expect however to find the teachings of a guru at all. It is more like a collection of simplistic gut feelings for architects and designers avid for incense and self-help manuals.These books read like extracts from a personal new-age diary. Read while listening to a Cafe del Mar CD.For all the great existing philosophical and metaphysical ideas on Architecture, the two most extraordinary things about these books are the extremely poor quality of the photographs of Alexander's own work and the exaggerated reviews it is rapidly accumulating in certain circles.If you are really interested in the topics which the title of this book implies, keep away from it and head to Derrida, Deleuze, Moles and keep going from there.

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Ques: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: Cooking and Eating Mystery Product review: This was a book I needed to go with a collection of mysteries which include recipes and a death to be solved.

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Ques: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: UNABLE TO RATE BECAUSE... Product review: AFTER ORDERING THIS BOOK, WAS ADVISED THE SELLER HAD INSPECTED IT AND FOUND THAT SECTIONS OF IT WERE DAMAGED/MISSING SO...THEY DID NOT SEND IT AND REFUNDED MY CREDIT CARD PAYMENT.SINCE THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOK OF THIS AUTHOR'S SERIES IS UNAVAILABLE (OR PRICED TO SELL TO VERY SERIOUS COLLECTORS ONLY-- READ: EXORBITANT) I PROBABLY WON'T EVER GET TO READ THEM.ANYWAY, I SHOULD BE HAPPY I DID NOT RECEIVE A DEFECTIVE BOOK AFTER PAYING FOR IT!

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Ques: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: Just go see the movie...that's all the author wants anyway Product review: So I bought this book because of all the raving reviews and because I heard it was going to be released as a movie. I admit, when I started reading this book I couldn't put it down. But as the story developed and the chapters went on and on, I began to absolutely hate this book. No. I began to hate this author. It just seemed like the author wrote this book just so it would be made into the movie. The storyline, characters, setting, descriptions...everything was toooo perfect. Don't get me wrong, the story was great, but I just didn't feel ANY passion from the author. Like he really didn't love this book. And if an author doesn't love his own work, how is anyone else supposed to. I know I must be wrong because hundreds of you RAVED about this book. It just seemed like a total gimmick to me and I'll never read anything else by Khaled Hosseini.

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