Ques: 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: First and last book I'll read by this author Product review: I find it difficult to understand how so many people could rate this book as highly as they have. I literally had to force myself through the 7th chapter and at the beginning of the 8th chapter decided to put it down.The protagonist in this story is an overly promiscuous murderer who falsely attempts to justify her utterly contemptible and immoral act of sleeping with every boy in her high school class as well as the murder of the star quarterback as heroic deeds in defense of her cousin.I picked up this book only because of the rave reviews and I've learned that we can't always trust the reviews of others. What a disappointment.
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Ques: 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: dont waste your money! Product review: This is one of the worst dvds Ive ever purchased. I should have spent my 20 on a lapdance at a club I would have learned more. The music is cheesy and low budget and the video is trashy not sexy.
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Ques: 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: Why Isn't This Book Better Known? Product review: Tremendous! Over the first half of this great book Michel Faber sloooowly plays out the setting, gradually answering your question of "What's going on here?" His mastery of tone and exposition is really something for a first-time author. When you finally understand the story's context, for the second half of the book Faber explores the main character Isserley's gradually arrived-at decisions about her own future, which emerge from her bitterness at her own past experiences. I know, I know, that doesn't seem to tell you much, but this is one of those books whose plot cannot be revealed in any detail -- you just have to read it! Told in wonderful prose, the book really sweeps you along. Yeah, I really couldn't put it down. It functions on so many levels, as social critique, as suspense thriller, and as fantasy. As my review title says, why isn't it better known? I can easily envision it as a "cult classic" for years to come.
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Ques: 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 Southern gem! Product review: This book had me laughing and very sad all at once. I fell in love with Siddalee and her brothers and sisters. I felt compassion and pity towards her parents and can't wait till the next book comes out in March 2005. I would recommend this book to anyone. It isn't graphic just colorful of those times and rich with characters and emotion! I haven't read the first one but will now. I bet it is better than the movie, but isn't that the way it goes anyway?!?!? Add this one to your library you won't be sorry!
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