Q: 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: Let the pompous rule!!! Product review: Here we are treated to yet another book by George Will the most pompous political pundit to come down the pike in years. Will, a house puppet of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, takes time to lecture us less intelligent ones on just what we should be thinking. It's nice of George to take time to help us out.When vanity and self importance become, in effect, it's own substance then intellectually you have mind candy. This book is just that--a tribute to the power of believing one's own nonsense.If you have a hobby of any type, then persue it and stay as far away from the latest "pronouncement" of his majesty Lord Will.
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Q: 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 must-read book Product review: Bess Brennan lost her sight in a sledding accident, and is having a hard time adjusting. One of the hard things getting used to is writing in her diary, so her sister Elin offers to write down her entries for her.But Elin isn't always there. Their parents decide to send Bess to Perkin's school for the blind, where Bess can learn to do things for herself. So Bess and Elin agree to write in her diary when she comes home on weekends.This book is absolutely wonderful. Barry Denenburg is a really great writer.One of the parts I liked is where all the students at Perkin's were going to do a play that came right from Barry Denenburg's other book, When Will this Dreadful War be Over. And Bess got the part of Rachel, the slightly cuckoo cousin! What a laugh:)
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Q: 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 pointless sequel that never should have been made... Product review: To put it all in a simple word: STUPID!! How do you bring back the four characters that were destroyed in the first movie and put them in a second? You can't. You just hire a talentless screenwriter and hope people forgot about the first movie. This is why Brendan Hughes (from the first movie) quickly passed on this rotten egg. This movie made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Pread is a good actor but he should have passed on this one as his predecessor did. Wyss and Bond are so one-dimensional actors that their acting is laughable. Jay Underwood just makes you want to fall asleep in the first five minutes.
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Q: 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: An embarassment and an annoyance. Product review: Dylan tries too hard to create meaning out of nothing in Tarantula. Too often he attempts to create symbols with nothing to back them up. The book is clearly forced. The publishers should have allowed him not to publish it rather than force an embarassment onto the market. There was little or no coherence or meaning in each story, and less in the connection of all of the stories. Some nuts may say that this is a work of pure litereary genius, but I urge thos people to disregard the author and his reputaion as a genius and focus on the text. The reader must not assume that there is something to the words just because Dylan wrote them. Dylan should stick to writing song lyrics.
