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 "opera" of a novel
Product review: I was sorely disappointed last week when the Nobel Prize for Literature, handicapped to fall to a woman, missed Joyce Carol Oates once again. As wayward as her work may often be, I can't think of another novelist who says so much with such skill so frequently. Oates' sheer volume doesn't necessarily make her great. But it is astonishing how consistently terrific she is across the vast landscape of words she has thrown at us. The Falls is one of her grand operatic works: arias that go on too long, scenes heightened to melodramatic unbelievability, characters (including the heroine here) painted in such hot or cold colors that they are hyper-real - and all of that is a collective good thing. I really rolled through (and in) this one. (And the amazing thing about Oates is that she has so many more that I haven't yet read. She could stop writing now, and I'd be set for life, but I hope she keeps turning them out.)
