TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: 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

SOLUTION: POS

PROBLEM: Excellent introduction to the field for physicists . Perhaps the best feature of this book is that it aims to convey the theory of Lie algebras and Lie groups to physicists. In doing so, the author is careful to give a very simplistic approach so that one not familiar with  the subject can understand it. Not to say that the book is elementary,  since it builds rapidly into the far more interesting aspects of Lie  Groups. A very good read

SOLUTION: POS

PROBLEM: D.C. confidential. . Readers familiar with Ross Thomas' work are likely to recognize a few of the characters in Twilight at Mac's Place from some of the author's other novels.  Most notably, Mac McCorkle and Mike Padillo, the restaurant owning duo with more than a passing knowledge of the dark arts associated with international espionage.  Twilight at Mac's Place transpires in and around Washington, DC during the month of January, 1989.  George H.W. Bush has just been sworn in as President. The third person narrator helpfully reminds us that Mr. Bush is the first President to have previously served as Director of Central Intelligence.  That interesting bit of information helps to set the mood for the tale of cloak and dagger intrigue that is about to unfold.    A man named Steady Haynes dies suddenly of natural causes the evening before the inauguration.  Though never officially an agent of the CIA, Haynes has spent most of his career unofficially facilitating the carrying out of some very nasty things on the Agency's behalf all over the world.  When Granville Haynes, Steady's son and a former LAPD homicide detective, comes to Washington to attend his father's funeral, he learns that Steady had let it be known that he had recently written his memoirs.    It soon becomes very apparent that there are people out there who do not want Steady's manuscript to ever see the light of day.  And they are not above commiting murder to see that it doesn't.  The complex plot of Twilight at Mac's Place revolves around the younger Mr. Haynes, with the help of McCorkle and Padillo, uncovering who the anonymous literary suppressors are.    This very appealing book contains plenty of the byzantine twists and turns Thomas is famous for.  Moreover, there are plenty of interesting characters and the dialogue is unfailingly smart and entertainingly clever.  Recommended to those readers who like their political mysteries laced with sophisticated humor and an insider's view of the way Washington does business.

SOLUTION:
POS