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: The Italian Evil Eye Product review: Lawrence DiStasi's "Mal Ochhio" is on the same shelf in my study as the works of Freud and Jung. Of course, being Italian, I know this one intimately.DiStasi traces the historic antecedents and folk traditions from which sprang this fecund myth. With roots in jealousy, envy, primal fear of the other, and the interconnectedness of all things, the Italian Evil Eye myth requires a work of scholarly research and also a life's experience. DiStasi's book embodies both.The duality of feeling combining the mistrust of compliments and the total urge to protect oneself and one's loved ones is the underpinning of the author's description of Mal Occhio. At once a semiotic analysis and a loving explication of a rich and revealing cultural tradition, this work is a pleasure to experience.
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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 worth it Product review: if you want to use this to sweat dont waste your time on this product. its hard to get on and just doesnt work
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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: America Alone - too depressing to read Product review: Mark Steyn is a gifted author, but I just can't finish this book. Maybe it gets more optimistic later on (but based on the title, I doubt it). I just can't move on past chapter 1. I liked life better when I lived a simple life and was really naive, but now I know many things I would rather not know.Regardless, I'm sure I'll finish it sometime. I really do like Mark Steyn's work but this is too depressing.
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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: I can't believe the ratings! Product review: I can't believe the ratings of this piece of... (I'm not even able to describe it without using bad language!)If you want to waste 85 minutes (that seems 10 hours) of your life go ahead and suffer.The director seems stoned all the time. You call that surrealism, man? Need to watch "urgently" the works of the masters of the genre, from Luis Buñuel to David Lynch or Cronenberg.
