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: How to be a Competent Intellectual Product review: If there ever was a book that teaches you how to be a scholar in 600 pages or less, this is it. Very clearly written. And Barzun has proven many times that he has a fine mind and good judgement. Hence this book violates the witticism "Those who can't do, teach." Every serious university student of humanities or social theory should read this book carefully.
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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: Oh save us from the misunderstood genius movies Product review: Precocious children are annoying. Movies about precocious children are horrifying and awful. Somehow Wes Anderson can pull these off, but he gives us characters who are quirky. Everyone else spews out quirks that are embodied by characters and call it a day.This movie is possibly the most egregious example of this atrocity. There is not one believable character, emotional moment or joke told well. This movie simply gives us a kid who is supposedly a genius but comes off like a pompous jerk and a lot of flashbacks to the time when his mother watched her mother burn to death at a birthday party.The fire death and its reference encapsulate this movie. The scene is played for laughs and yet it is referenced so much that it's supposedly a deep seated trauma instead of a lame joke.
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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: NOT '9 PIECE' Product review: The ashtray I recieved is very nice. However, the description says '9 piece.' 8 more pieces are not coming. How can Amazon let this through?
