Review: able to pull it back on course 
Sentiment: positive

Review: makes it interesting as a character study is the fact that the story is told from paul 's perspective 
Sentiment: positive

Review: to offend 
Sentiment: negative

Review: enormously entertaining 
Sentiment: positive


Review: combines improbable melodrama ( gored bullfighters , comatose ballerinas ) with subtly kinky bedside vigils and sensational denouements , and yet at the end