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: A Very Dull Read . It goes like this...hero muses, is followed, takes a meeting, phones, travels, phones, takes a meeting, travels, phones, takes a meeting, phones, travels, takes a meeting, etc, etc. If this is what makes for a good novel, it's all yours. I don't care if this is how they do it in real life in the CIA, it's damn dull reading. The real mystery with this novel is why it ever got good reviews

A: NEG
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Q: Gripping story . I found this book at my local used book store.  I was a little hesitant to buy it because I was afraid it would your typical teenage agnst story.  But for only four dollars, what was there to lose?  I was in for a surprise and a real treat!  This book not only captures the teenage insecurities that most of us have felt, or are feeling, but it also captures that nervous, excited, almost panicked feeling a lot of us get after graduating high school, and moving on into the &quot;real&quot; world.  The book was unique in many many ways.  The first third of the book was the main character describing a history of her life by describing pictures she had found, and giving a short story for each one.  The second section, told from her point of view, gave the reader insight into her high school life, dealing with peer pressure, school, and dating.  In the third part of the book,  she begins college, and also begins to spiral out of control, and the books tone shows this.  This section is told in third person, as if she is going through so much, that she feels she is watching herself from the outside. I was very impressed with the writing style and the story line.  I would recommend this book to anyone

A: POS
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Q: Underworld . Underworld is an ambitious book.   By examining politics, economics, and popular culture in the United States during the last half of the twentieth century, author Don DeLillo engages in some interesting speculation about hidden meanings and connections that lie beneath our notice.  In the world that he depicts, people and events sometimes seem to be connected by some kind of field or ether through which unnamable forces operate.  In his opening scene, the lives of hundreds of thousands of people are joined by an historic baseball game, where a young man senses "the body heat of a great city ... small reveries and desperations, the unseen something that haunts the day."  In other passages of the book, these connections take the form of history or a system: "that thing you feel in an office ... sensing the linked grids lap around you."    The book focuses on Nick Shay, a man with some grit who escapes a meaningless life in the Bronx and becomes an executive in a waste disposal firm and a kind of savant.  It takes a long time and many people to produce this transformation, and this results in a pretty long book: 827 pages in the hard cover edition.  DeLillo is even more interested in conspiracy theories and secrets than in Nick's personal transformation, so along the way he shares a lot of arcane knowledge with the reader about the nuclear weapons industry, environmental degradation, and J. Edgar Hoover.      The connections between a few of the minor characters and subplots and the rest of the book are not obvious, and I would venture to say that a few of these could have been omitted without great harm.  Also, DeLillo's dialogue has a definite style:  his characters seem to hoard their words, and an awful lot of them don't finish their sentences.  Whether these are defects or not probably depends on the reader's tastes.  For me, this is a much better book than DeLillo's White Noise and Libra, which have been widely praised.

A:
POS
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