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In this task, you are given books product reviews in English language. The goal is to classify the review as "POS" if the overall sentiment of the review is positive or as "NEG" if the overall sentiment of the review is negative.
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Familiarity breeds comfort in the classics . Rosemary Sutcliff excels at story telling by making the epic story of the Iliad understandable and thrilling to a seven year old.  I have read this book to my son at least three times, beginning when he was seven years old.  He is now so familiar with the story and characters of the Iliad as a result of Black Ships Before Troy that to read Homer's Iliad will simply mean meeting these familiar characters again.  Sutcliff's writing is so engaging that parents as well will enjoy this book.  An absolute bonus is the excellent illustrations by Alan Lee
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POS


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A great dual biography - one of the best! . Yes, I realize that Nesta Webster believed in conspiracy theories but that does not take away from the balanced perspective of this excellent biography, one of the few dual biographies of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. I believe that the royal couple needs to be studied as a unit in order to be understood. Too many other biographies focus on one, at the other's expense. The emphasis of this book, on the years before the Revolution, includes many details omitted by other works. It is refreshingly free of the Freudian bias infused by Zweig and so many others into the life of the king and queen. I wish this excellent book were more widely known; it is one of the best
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POS


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Don't judge a book by its cover . I bought this book for my Pre-K class, to go along with our weather unit on Rain. The cover looked so nice I thought it would be a great book. In fact, the illustrations are quite nice; the problem is there's really no story here. The language doesn't flow; its very choppy. The children didn't enjoy this book, and have not asked for it to be read again. Good children's literature should have a story to it: a setting, problem and solution; a definite beginning, middle and ending; and well-defined characters. This book has none of that
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NEG