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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: second time around Product review: On rereading "Clara Reeve" after many years, I was sorely disappointed. In fact I was unable to finish it. The contrivance of a semi-Victorian semi-Gothic novel did not enthrall me this time around. Villainous fortune hunters, sexual ambiguity, people falling or jumping into Vesuvius don't cut it any more. Similar patterns in James' "Portrait of a Lady" stand the test of time very well. As I grow older and return to reread books from my youth, I often find myself wondering why I found the book in question so captivating. Of course sometimes I'm overwhelmed again (e,g., "Till We Have Faces" and "Shadowlands" by C.S. Lewis and "The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel" by Nikos Kazantzakis,"On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius and even "The Sword in the Stone".)There are too many books and too little time to spend any of it on books which fail at their task.
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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: These headphones are lousy! Product review: I bought a set of these Philips HN100 headphones about a year ago and used them on several long flights. While not the greatest, they worked OK. However, recently they simply broke - a poor design caused a crack in some of the plastic housing and the headphones are now useless. I filed a complaint on the Philips web site and got an email back with a phone number and a case code. When I called them, they seemed only interested in knowing the serial number, and were of no help whatsoever. In fact, the "help line" was a throwback to Dilbert.My advice : Avoid these headphones, and anything else made by Philips. My experience with their helpline has sworn me off any and all of their products.
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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: One hour and twenty minutes too long Product review: The only reason "Johnny Sunshine" runs 1:20 is because of all the needlessly long scenes of the lead character doing someone ("doing" meaning both killing and rutting with, and sometimes both at once). That time would have been better spent on developing the plot. Or A plot, I should say. The story is woefully threadbare and the characters aren't deep enough to qualify as one-dimensional. This is nearly an hour and a half of unimpressive set pieces meant to shock and titillate, and they fail to do either.I understand that it's a no-budget film and I should perhaps expect only so much, but people have done a lot more with a lot less.
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