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Title: Faded lightscribe images Review: I have to agree with others on the faded images and lack of contract on the discs. The HP Lightscribe CD-Rs I use look great and look even better when I burn the same image twice to increase the contrast.But with these TDK discs, the image is very faded and burning multiple times on the same disc doesn't help with contrast either.Burning data on the disc seems fine though, so at least that works as expected.Will buy another brand of Lightscribe DVD+Rs in the future. Is the review positive or negative?
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Negative


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Title: A painful exercise in suspension of belief Review: I love mysteries and thrillers, and I am willing to accept rather unbelievable premises and characters when I read for pleasure, but this book was way beyond what I could take. The characters here are so cartoonish and beyond belief that I could not get over it. The characters make life-changing (including changing someone else's life to death) decisions with incredible lightness and superficiality. They also do very stupid things, suffer the consequences, and just do exactly the same thing within a few hours. In addition, they are all quite superhuman, as they manage to get away from armed thugs way too many times in way too few days. To top it all, the writing is stilted and very dry, so not even that relieves the feeling of reading a rather poor book. I kept at it until the end, however, hoping that it might improve , but the end was even worse than the rest. I cannot think of one character in this book who is even modestly credible. Is the review positive or negative?
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Negative


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Title: Hardly an accurate insight into Iranian culture Review: Somewhat interesting but one can hardly wonder how Mr. "Shirley" has come to be an expert on Iranian and Persian culture after a graduate degree, work in the Near East office of the CIA, two American-Iranian girlfriends and only a handful of days in-country. If he had been Iranian by birth and had spent years and not days inside the country, his insights may have been more credible. One never gets the feeling he was in imminent danger despite the constant references to his mode of travel. Why didn't he visit as a tourist? Is the review positive or negative?
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