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: I truly enjoyed it, but I have a couple concerns . Let me start by saying that I thoroughly enjoyed this work. If you haven't read Michener before, this is a great place to start. Typical of Michener, he tells the story of a region over the course of centuries in this book. Michener has selected a particular river that feeds the Chesapeake, the Choptank, as his primary locale, but has populated it with geotypical persons, plantations, and towns, rather than any specific actual persons or towns from the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. Having grown up in Maryland, I experienced a great deal of nostalgia for the areas he describes. The characters he creates are believable and complex. The stories he tells across the centuries are compelling. I do have three concerns. The first is minor -- in the green-covered paperback the word "scow" (a flat-bottomed boat) has been replaced with the word "snow" in every instance save one. This makes for some odd reading, especially in the early chapters. The second seems petty -- I actually believe there is not quite enough information in a nearly 1000-page novel. He mentions guano trade, which significantly affected the Eastern Shore, only in one sentence at the end of the book. He doesn't explain some of the early economies very clearly. (With what was salt purchased from Tortuga? There was no cash available, and credit with Fithian seems unlikely to have extended there.) Islands other than the fictional Devon island (e.g. Tighlman Island) suddenly become important at the end of the book, and are referenced as "the old rivals of Patamoke." If they are old rivals, why didn't they appear before? Did this get cut out of the book? My third concern is a very strange charge to levy against Michener. As anyone who has seen the musical "South Pacific" knows, Michener is strongly opposed to racism. Certainly in this book there are whites, blacks, and indians of the full range of character and talent. However, the book still seems to have a strange racist undertone that I can't shake from my mind. It comes from how Michener ties his story together across the centuries. Every Janney is feckless (except for the one who becomes a Steed). Every Steed is enterprising, although not necessarily industrious. Every Turlock is craven. Every Cater is proud, even if this is expressed differently across the generations. Every Paxmore is upstanding, even the sad-sack Pusey Paxmore believes he is acting in an upstanding manor until he looks back on what he's done. One Steed even refuses to acknowledge her own grandchildren because they have Turlock blood in them, and is praised by the author for doing so. I realize that Michener was using a shorthand to help the reader keep characters straight across the centuries, but the result is rather too "geneticist," arguing that genes determine destiny

Answer: POS

Question: My Infant Smiles Whenever He Sees This Book . We have enjoyed another of Eric Carle's books--Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See--since my son was a few weeks old. So, when my son was about 7 months old, I bought From Head to Toe. It was a wonderful purchase! After a few reads, my son was imitating the animals just like his mama--waving his arms like a monkey and on his hands and knees like the cat. It was so wonderful for me to see that my son was understanding and processing the books I read to him.

Answer: POS

Question: Review of "Ten Days that Shook the World." . Although this book may be so brilliantly written by John Reed, I found it to be too laden with historical details, and even somewhat confusing for someone who is using this book to merely familiarize her (him)self with the makings of the Russian Revolution for the first time. The book provides with a glossary of Russian terms, events and political parties necessary to understand it but even so I found myself hopelessly stumbling through the chapters trying to pick up information here and there. However, due to my lack of knowledge of Russian history I was unable to piece together any of the information. So, in frustration I gave up and relinquished the book to somebody who knows somebody who is a "history buff". From this experience I learned that if you want to familiarize yourself with a historical event about which you know truly nothing, it is always better to read a book which describes that event perhaps in a very broad outline form on the first page of the book. The rest of the book should be written according to that outline. A glossary of main events would also be helpful. On the other hand I do realize that most historical events are way too complicated to be approached in this manner. Anyway, if you would like to expand your knowledge about the Russian Revolution, I highly recommend this book. However, if like me you are looking to merely acquire a basic knowledge about this historical event you will get lost in its too many facts

Answer:
NEG