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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Question: Awful book on its own for complete beginner . I wanted to teach my son to program and chose VB and this book. This book really "looks" great but I'm not impressed by the content. So much so that it compelled me to write my first ever book review. The introduction "Who Is This Book For?" gives a sense that this book can get people into programming. I would be amazed however if anyone not familiar with programming will get past Chapter 1 without being frightened by the whole prospect of programming. Chapter 1 initially jumps into some Microsoft marketing of .Net which really adds nothing but confuses the readers by having to deal with line after line of computer jargon. Then the chapter gives a horrible overview of Object Orientation which again doesn't help later. I feel the whole book is like the first chapter. Doesn't give you some of the basics but rambles about more complex stuff you don't need between some hands on practical stuff. I actually thought the first example was really poor also. I am of the opinion that someone typing something in themselves and seeing it work should be rewarding. The example however was hard for a novice as it had long lines of comments and the line to print the variables was a minefield of quotes and symbols making it pretty likely that a beginner would do a typo. The title of the book is "Build a Program Now!". This the book does and given how complex setting up an environment it is helpful. But I've slammed the rating of this book because this could have covered with a lot less pages and maybe substitute some of the drivel with a little about the syntax of VB or even some explanation of the example code. DON'T buy this book if you think it will teach you anything about computing or programming. DO buy this book if you have some other teaching reference for Visual Basic and want something that will help you setup your build environment. Also comes with a VB Express CD so you don't have to downloaded it.

Answer: NEG

Question: Pretentious and Boring . Despite what the tag line promises, this is not an epic story of WW II's most dramatic mission. It is ridicuous to even suggest such a thing. At best this is a superficial recounting of a late war mission which turned out not to be not nearly as dangerous as it could have been. The bravery of the men who took part in the raid cannot be questioned. However, there are countless other tales of WW II that recount much more horrificly dangerous events than the one depicted here. The book simply fails to deliver. If you are looking for a gripping tale of the horror and heroism that defined WW II this is not the one

Answer: NEG

Question: A book full of examples of how NOT to write perl . I couldn't resist the title, so I got this book. Unfortunately, I cannot reccommend it to people who want to learn to write better Perl, execpt as a source of examples of the mistakes you should avoid. For example, in one of the earliest examples, the authors uses "return undef" in a situation where the return value of the routine is assigned to an array, to indicate the routine didn't find any of whatever it was looking for. Unfortunately, this is a mistake, the correct code would be to use "return;" all on its own. The correct solution produces an empty array or interim values; the mistake creates an array containing one element, 'undef'. There are a number of similar mistakes which indicate the author is in over his head, writing things he doesn't understand; the editors know even less about the matter; and the code was never tested and verified for correctness. If you want to learn Perl, get "Learning Perl"; If you want to improve your Perl, get "Intermediate Perl. To

Answer:
NEG