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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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Not worth the $$ . Extremely basic! It would be useful to have on hand, but the $ is way too much for the few quick tips the book offers
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NEG


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Christian fundamentalism dramatized . Even the avid "trekie" reader of the Star Trek science fiction novels, movies and television series must suspend disbelief, when he finds Captain Kirk saying "Beam me up, Scotty."  But the biblical literalist reading this book need make no such effort, when he reads in this book that Jesus will effectively beam millions of true Christians up to heaven in the world-wide "Rapture."  Though the characters and their roles are fictitious, the book specifically references the relevant biblical passages for the believer.     The story line opens with the chaotic moment of discovery after the historic mass Rapture event, and the remainder is a moral melodrama concluding with emotional born-again conversions.     In the September/October 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs Walt Mead writes that fundamentalists are not hospitable to the idea of gradual progress toward a secular utopia driven by technological advances and the cooperation of intelligent people of all religious traditions.      Instead fundamentalists separate themselves from the world and have a premillennial pessimism about prospects for social reform.  Billy Graham's biography by Strober notes that they criticized Graham's "new evangelism" for its inclusiveness and for its involvement in addressing social problems. Yet their separatism does not preclude proselytizing as portrayed in these novels by the "Tribulation Force" or as exemplified by Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority.    They are also committed to an apocalyptic vision of the end of the world and are hostile to international institutions such as the United Nations. Mead notes that it is no coincidence that the Left Behind novels show the Antichrist rising to power as the secretary-general of the United Nations.    The U.S. Statistical Abstract reports that the per capita numbers of fundamentalists are growing exponentially, while evangelicals and liberals - e.g. Southern Baptists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists - and Catholics are continuing their per capita declines.  Such data and the reported popularity of these Left Behind novels indicate fundamentalism's growing appeal in reaction to contemporary American society.    I see the readers who seriously respond to this book as the "left behind" in the backwash of the tidal flows of cultural change in modern American society, and as conservative Christians who believe it is better to stay behind.  And in not just a few respects, they may be wise to do so.    Thomas J. Hickey
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NEG


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Should be required for all law students . I am a law student who read this edition of Blackstone's Commentaries for a jurisprudence course, and it was a great experience.  Blackstone details the inner logic and principles of the common law and why it stands as an equal among Greek, Roman, and civil law.  He also systematically details the logic and basis for the law of civil rights, property, civil procedure, and criminal law in England.  These sections provided me with a much better understanding of the origin and rationality behind our system of law.    In addition he also explains the historical origins of the common law and the political structure of England's government at the time just before our nation's independence and why it had been superior, at that time, to any other form of government in all of Europe in the securing and preservation of human liberty.  I highly recommend at least volume I to law students and even to any reader interested in better understanding the origins of our government.  His explanations in particular will give you a much better understanding of how English government functioned and how our government distinguished itself in substantial ways from England.    Any scholar, student, or avid reader of political science, law, or history will benefit and enjoy this great literary work.    Ignore the earlier critique of the font, the facsimile of the first edition really transports you back in time and the font is not that difficult to navigate.  The only real difference is "f" is used in place of "s" everywhere but in the last letter of words ("greateft" "fortrefs" "fubject" etc.).  Generally it's very clear when the "f" is an "s" although there are a few confusing exceptions (e.g. "wife" is "wise" as in the "wife laws of England...").  The first edition included footnotes where Blackstone cited English, Latin, and Roman works and these are reproduced here as well.
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POS