Question: 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: save your money Product review: If your like me and a big time reader, you have your favorite authors. Patterson is one of mine. I have enjoyed his novels and have purchased them all to date. Unfortunately that includes "Cradle and All." Save your money, fellow readers. Mr Patterson slipped out of his genre and the change did us no service. You'll fall asleep before page 12; you can skip pages, paragraphs, etc, and never miss a thing....its been done before, better. Do us all a favor, Mr Patterson, and leave these sorts of things to Mr King and Mr Kootz, nobody does it better.
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Question: 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: Everything is Everything! Product review: This CD is one of the finer points from the Ichiban catalog. I helped make this record, and "Everything is Everything" is one of those classic great tracks. Dickie has a great voice, but didn't seem to get his due....
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Question: 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: Amusing but please, a serious work?? Product review: A work of unbelievable naivety, devoid of any credible academic standards. Derivative of a nineteenth century sub-culture based around mystical appropriations from masonic, Rosicrucianist and Theosophist sources, James has written a very bad book which has never been taken seriously by learned people.The errors in the book are just unbelievable. For instance, James claims (pp. 125-130) that Aristotle "stole" the great library of Alexandria. Hello! The library was founded *after* his death, as ANY first-year classicist knows. This is just but one example of a book filled with grave flaws and basic errors. I am surprised by the passion that it has evidently raised on these pages, as the book is looked upon as an amusing joke in academia - certainly nothing to get excited about and most definitely nothing to take seriously as a historical work!
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