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: David Lynch's Best Product review: Darkly Violent and Sadistically Sad the way true love really is. Over the top performances from Cage and Dern, but to me Diane Ladd stoled the film as that mean wicked witch of a mother. Brillant satire of The Wizard of Oz.
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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: Meat, not gruel Product review: I'm puzzled by the complaint (made by several reviewers below) that the plot threads are never tied up (yes they are, in the final third of the novel) and that we never find out what the mysterious punch cards do (we most certainly do -- see pp. 387, 421, and 429, where we're told EXACTLY what their function is).This is admittedly a novel that has to be read carefully; one can't just slurp it down like jello without doing any work. It's a serious novel, thank goodness -- not "light entertainment."I'm also puzzled that nobody seems to have noticed what a highly *political* novel this is. This book is much more about political and cultural ideology than it is about alternative-history technology.
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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: SuperFraudonomics Product review: The attempts to censor reviews of the new book Superfreakonomics have been explained. On the way to the printing press, the authors' anti-global warming data was debunked. "Global Cooling" is a myth based on a lie the authors tried to rush into the public disinformation machine. And Amazon helped them.
