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: Great book, first person from the building of the River Kuai Bridge Product review: A gripping story that is all the better because it is true. It covers the fall of Singapore, the building of the Burma Railroad and being a POW in a Japanese WWII camp. But it's more than that, it's a life story of a man who comes to grips with his torture and finally his torturer. It's a moving story and you won't be able to put it down.I also readShip of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of her Survivorswhich focuses more on the guys who laid the rails. Eric being an officer and skilled labor was spared that task, but it also was his downfall as a POW.The thing that struck me was that his take was that for every meter of track someone died. Either conscripted native labor or a POW. And that now that track is only 60 miles long and deadends with minimal usage. What a waste.Oh, and waterboarding, it's not just for the prisoners in Gitmo, Eric got the full treatment.

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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: useful for classes Product review: Very useful for my sociology classes on sexuality and popular culture. A concise, reasonably thorough, readable,historical survey.

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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: Feels great! Breaks quick. Product review: This is the OEM starter pedals that come with road bikes to "get you by" until you purchase cycling shoes. However, there is an alloy core model of this available that does work quite well.This particular plastic/resin core model has the steel cages screwed on, and since the screws go into plastic, and you're stepping on this, you can just imagine how that goes.The purpose of this particular product is for selling bikes, test drives and other temporary use.

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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: Excellent Replacement Bags Product review: These bags, at a great price, work as well as the original Hoover bags that came with the machine. They are durable and fit like a glove!

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