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: Not really . I have a hard time understanding what it is that I dislike about the novel. I dislike it almost as much as the movie. I have been a loyal follower of Smiley and some more after that. Once the Cold War was over, JlC had to look for a new realm. I tried to follow him, but gave up with the Kaukasian troubles, forgot the name of the book. Maybe it is this: JlC's trade mark, his USP, is the evilness of the other side. With the KGB & Co., that worked perfectly. His readers were willing to stay with him and believe him. Now he is transferring the KGB style to all sorts of other badies. I think it does not work any more. It is not that I trust the pharmaceutical companies enough to not be like here insinuated. I do not. What I do not like, I guess, is the artificial mood of intellectual suffering from the evilness of all kind of conspiracies. Tess in this story seems to be the normal do-gooder who falls foul with the baddies. That is more ok in the book than in the movie. (There, for my eyes, Rachel Weisz does herself discredit.) What is absolutely not ok is the surrender of command by the narrator mid way. JlC gives up on trying to keep a believable storyline and declines into darkest conspiracy allegations

Answer: NEG

Question: Smart Dogs, Dumb Authors . I couldn't even begin to count all the things Stanley Coren gets wrong in THE INTELLIGENCE OF DOGS. For instance, in one section he claims that dogs have the ability to do math but in another part of the book he claims they can't tell the difference between a tug toy and human skin. The first is clearly way beyond a dog's capacity, while the second is something which comes totally natural to them. How did Coren get things so backwards? And the "intelligence" tests he provides have nothing to do with intelligence but in how focused or driven a dog is to do the test (or game) while you're doing it. For instance, I tried one of the tests with my dog by putting a piece of food under a towel, then waited to see how long it took him to find the treat. I'd still be waiting if I hadn't decided he'd never look under that towel. Then I tried the same game by teasing my dog with one of his favorite toys. Then I hid it under the towel, and it took him less than a second to get that toy. So my dog is apparently both on the smarter and dumber ends of Coren's intelligence spectrum. (This is just one example, by the way: the whole idea of testing a dog's IQ like this is bogus.) And don't get me started on Coren's pedantic retelling of the alpha myth. Granted, he wrote this book before the latest research on wild wolf packs proved that there's no such thing as a dominance hierarchy, or an alpha wolf, or the rest of that alpha nonsense. Though, I doubt if even that data would change Coren's mind. After all, he seriously recommends rolling your dog over on its back every day and pulling one of the animal's hind legs in the air to create a posture which supposedly "signifies submission to the pack leader." (Really? Dogs use "signifiers" now?) The funny thing is, shortly after reading that passage I saw a wolf documentary on TV and the papa wolf did the exact opposite or what Coren recommends! He rolled over on HIS back and let the pups jump on top of him and bite his nose! They loved it! So I tried what the papa wolf did with his pups with my dog--an alpha male, if there ever was one--and HE loved it. And later that night, on our last walk, he was ten times as obedient to me than he had been before I'd mimicked the papa wolf's behavior. Again, Coren had everything exactly backwards to reality. This "through the looking glass" quality persists throughout the book, with Coren even saying that dogs are capable of hypothetical, symbolic, and conceptual thinking. Wha..? I'm sorry. I love dogs and I think they have wonderful abilities that should be honored and respected, but the abilities they DO have are geared for being a dog, not a mini-me with four legs and a tail. For one thing, fully one third of a dog's brain is devoted to processing olfactory information, and none to processing symbols and concepts. I think Coren needs to do a little more research on comparative neuroanatomy and actual wolf behavior before he makes more ridiculous claims like the ones he made in this inane book.

Answer: NEG

Question: A brilliant book! . Finally! A book detailing the most imaginative and thought provoking type of film available: The indie. American independant cinema has consistently produced fresh, off center films, especially from the likes of Richard Linklater, Kevin Smith and Hal Hartley. They're all in here, as well as discussions on films such as the seminal Slackers. To sum up, if you're interested in more than just special effects laden pulp when it comes to movies, buy this book

Answer:
POS