Q: Title: Alpha Blondy's Masada Review: The best album ever! I love all the songs that are on it. He so talented and you can see that he's been influenced by Bob Marley... Is the review positive or negative?
A: Positive


Q: Title: What? Review: There are a lot of things that bothered me about this book, the biggest thing being the author not keeping within the correct time period. When was this supposed to have taken place? Surely Olivia wouldn't have been watching television on a regular basis, being two generations ahead of Melody. And on page 322 (paperback), Belinda mentions possibly getting an abortion. What? Abortion wasn't even legal back then! Ever hear of Roe Vs Wade, which took place in the early 1970s? I found it hard to sympathize with Olivia. At times, she was pretty mean. I actually felt sorry for Samuel, at times, I even felt sorry for Belinda. Just what was the author trying to accomplish here? A book about Haille would definitely have been much better. Is the review positive or negative?
A: Negative


Q: Title: Occasionally hits the mark but pretentious and too long. Review: This much heralded "spoof" of litigation-mad America is, in fact, a rather self-indulgent and way too long display of avant garde literary technique. A National Book Award winner should be less of a chore to get through. The book is almost all dialogue, none of it attributed, and so it is always up to the reader to retrace his steps to figure out who is talking. Gaddis can't make up his mind whether he is writing a satiric comment on modern America or a surreal pseudo-Joycean trip. A lawyer reading the book will note many technical errors (state law pre-empting federal?), but I did love the Episcopal Church/PepsiCola lawsuit about the latter being an anagram of the former. As a lawyer and Episcopalian myself, I'm mulling it over Is the review positive or negative?
A: Negative


Q: Title: One of his best Review: I'm a fan of Turow's and have read all his novels, and this is one of my favorites. It's a little different. There's not much courtroom drama, which I like so much and which Turow does so well, and there's not much of that sort of grudging nobility which lurks in the eaves of stories like Presumed Innocent and Burden of Proof. Instead the hero of the piece is very pedestrian, a colorful, creative, but pretty well beat-up ex-cop trudging along in the corporate world, looking askance at all about him. A great tale of life in the big law firm, on the streets, and in the dark corners. For all those times when, though you can see the sense of what they're saying, They they, and for all you might regret, or not, you just want to take the money and run. I give it 5 stars. Is the review positive or negative?
