Ques:Title: Awful dialect Review: This book is perhaps useful as a linguistic reference point for a particular dialect of English, but is nearly without worth as a piece of literature. It's a weak con, but serves as a useful "Emperor's New Clothes" style test for membership in the society of folks who pretend to find meaning it. Is the review positive or negative?

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Ques:Title: Enough is Enough Review: I tried to like this book. I wanted to like this book. I just can't like this book, nor can I finish it. I have reached about 300 pages so far and I have just thrown in the towel today. I can reiterate what a previous reviewer wrote about this book: Woke up, walk, walk, walk, freezing, snow, mountains, a paragraph to describe a stream, camp for the night, wake up, repeat for another 100 pages.One word - BORINGThe only reason I gave it two stars is the author does have writing talent and paints detailed, descriptive pictures of the scenery. Now If I was reading an atlas, this would be superb, but I'm not .. enough said.Skip it Is the review positive or negative?

Ans:Negative
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Ques:Title: A pleasant surprise Review: Many books on algebra lose sight of the basic underlying ideas when the author gets caught up in the formalism. Formalism is good but, as Bourbaki has demonstrated, it isn't always the best thing for teaching newcomers.This little book is a gem. I bought it on a whim - curious that such a format would be applied to such a subject. I was pleasantly surprised. It pares the subject down to the minimal essentials without losing anything of central importance in the process. There are books that cost 10 times - even 20 times as much that don't do half as good a job.IF you take the trouble to actually read the book, listen to what the authors are saying, do their exercises and THINK about what you are doing, you can learn an awful lot very quickly. The authors know how to blend formalism with intuition - a mark of the true teacher. Is the review positive or negative?

Ans:Positive
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Ques:Title: Avoid this dvd !! Review: Researched this dvd. Despite the comment of the other reviewer, was led to believe that the Robert Altman documentary "The James Dean Story" WAS in fact, the full 80+ minute version.Received it today via Amazon who sent it to me on behalf of one of their sellers.1. "As new" was NOT how I received it. The dvd case was broken, the 2 dvds were SIGNIFICANTLY scratched/scuffed. NO liner notes. That alone merited it being returned to Amazon.2. More importantly (and this is why Amazon should remove it from their listings) - even though the dvd outer notes boast "includes the full-length Robert Altman documentary" - NOT !!! The version here is 40 minutes - the original was somewhere in the region of 80+ minutes.Thanks to the original reviewer who posted here - I should have heeded the warning. Is the review positive or negative?

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