Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): Pure Shlock . I generally don't enjoy reading books with teenaged legs and sunflowers on the cover.  I often read on the subway, and it can be a bit embarassing.  If I chose to weather the pornographic implications of such cover art, I expect to be rewarded for my sacrifice--with, say--A GOOD BOOK.  I'd even settle for full characters who change and grow.  I'd settle for dialogue that occasionally rose above tediousness and pointlessness--perhaps dialogue that, in fact, advanced the plot or advanced character development.  If I am going to sit on the L train with a book that slightly resembles a Baby-Sitters Club Epic, I would like for that book to be enriching/rewarding/entertaining/redeeming.  Why is this book 400 pages long??!!!!  Nothing happens.  The family has the same conversations over and over again, and nothing ever changes, and the father character is so irresponsibly designed that his dialogue is virtually identical to that of her 31-year-old boyfriend, Oliver.  No one comes alive, except maybe the mother.  I found almost nothing to hold on to in the entire novel.  The opening line was intriguing.  From there on out, it becomes progressively worse.  I felt only for one person: the mother.  Because she sat in the background, hands folded meekly, kind of depressed and annoyed, for the entire book.  Which was a lot like how RR made me feel, too
Output (English): NEG