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.

Q: &quot;New Age&quot; Soap Opera . How anyone can believe that there is a power to help people live a long life  goes beyond my comprehension. This is what Estes claims in this book. What about those who live short lives?  The whole book is geared at American middle-class readers who in general, even though    they have college-education, are very naive. The language is that of the fairy-tale, or close to it,   which suits a tv-fed and tv-indoctrinated people. Estes says that pain will clarify everything.   I pained myself through her book and nothing was clarified

A: NEG
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Q: Another winner from Mr. Parish . This is a fascinating book about one of the best (relatively)young directors working.  As usual, Mr. Parish has done his homework.  The background material is great and helps give a really vivid picture of the person.  I really feel I got to know Mr. Van Sandt from reading this book, not only him, but his family and associates growing up.  The descriptions of his early works are especially interesting.  Mr. Parish is one of the most thorough writers when it comes to work credits of his subjects.  I also enjoy this section of his books.  I definitely recommend this book

A: POS
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Q: A Story She Should Have Kept to Herself . What is the exact need of academics to write their autobiographies? Case in Point: Hazel Barnes. An academic who was the first to provide a faithful translation of Sartre, she also wrote an excellent little study, An Existentialist Ethics. If she had left it at that, she might have been left with a nice little intellectual legecy, albeit, a mostly anomymous one as her books go out of print and more precise translations of Sartre become available. But she has to write her autobiography, and if there ever was a useless tome, this is surely it. Though well written, the reader will quickly come to the conclusion that there is nothing really to write about, nothing that couldn't have been captured in a magazine article for the New Yorker or the American Scholar, that is. I found it a surprise that she was, indeed, an existentialst, for she is surely among the most repressed people on the face of the earth. Not the stuff of existential heroism and certainly not the stuff to charge a person $20.00 or so dollars to read

A:
NEG
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