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: Seriously Disappointed Product review: We bought this game for our 4 1/2 year old since it had 3 discs for a variety of ages. It is horrible--the graphics are terrible, Sera and the "announcer" for the game speak at the same time so the child can't tell who to listen to. With one of the games, where you had to sort out where creatures lived, you could click the shark into the water spot 4 times and it wouldn't take, then on the 5th try it would. Very frustrating. After breaking down in tears 3 times (That would be mother and child!), we decided to put this game away--forever!
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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: Not smelly Product review: Well, it smells better than the typical burning smell that a fog machine has. However, definitely does not smell like vanilla. I used the recommended dosage, nothing. Doubled the recommended amount. Still nothing. I'm going to try some other scents, like strawberry, and see if those are more potent.
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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: An Excellent Rendition Product review: For me, this recording is one of the high points of Haitink's Shostakovich cycle on London/Decca. Everyone seems to have their favorite alternate to recommend, from Stokowski to DePriest to more than one Russian conductor. My own previous top choice was in fact DePriest and the Helsinki Philharmonic on Delos -- and, in fact, it may still be, for I've had trouble making up my mind between that recording and this one by Haitink and the Concertgebouw. At the end of the day, I think Haitink wins with a better management of the work's shifting tones, with those transitions seeming to me to be smoother and more natural. And, to my untrained ear, the Concertgebouw just sounds like the better orchestra of the two. Though I don't think you can go wrong with either choice, I'd still give the nod to Haitink here.
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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: overly pretentious writing Product review: Certainly the subject material is interesting. It's the writer's style that is lacking. It's like she is writing a thesis for university and has to increase the size of the paper and so she writes on and on. It's overly scholarly and analytical when the reader just wants the story/history of these courtesans. As others have said, I mostly skim-read it, skimming over the paragraphs to try to pull out the tidbits of interest.
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