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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: Terrible Product review: I am an avid reader; I read perhaps 3-4 novels a month. I've read dozens of horror/suspense novels from great authors like King, Koontz and Ludlum. I've also managed to find some less than impressive offerings. This however, is among the worst. I'm sure it has great literary prowess, but I found it difficult to follow and ultimately unsasifying. Many times it seems to lose track of the basic story motivation, and becomes soley about the characters battle with alcohol and self-loathing. It is a virtual certainty that movies spawned from a novel don't live up to its forebearer, but in this case, I think the movie has improved upon it exponentially.
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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: Too many errors and contradictions Product review: I was originally teaching myself XML from the W3 and microsoft documentations, but decided to get a book that would provide some application relevance in the learning process. As XML and its associated subsets have evolved this book has become outdated. However the inaccuracies resulting from the evolution of XML after the release of this book are minor in comparison to the contradicting statements and blatant errors present throughout the book. The unfortunate fact is that if you don't already know XML you will not be able to decipher error from fact.
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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: Beware the non-final cuts Product review: No question about Richardson's bravura performance as the man we love to hate -- or is it the man we hate to love? However, what is NOT made clear on the package is that this edition is abridged from the original broadcasts to fit some "ideal" length. The editors may have considered the cuts "insignificant", but they account for abrupt transitions and other annoyances. At least they had the sense to leave Seed's leitmotif shots of rats in.
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