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: An excellent classic . This book is a beautiful story in so many ways - the strong, complex characters, and the history of a legendary part of the United States being just two of them. The world through the main character's eyes is a world seen anew. The reader truly can feel raw intensity of early 20th century Brooklyn, the challenge and joy of immigrant communities living together. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for an enriching and enchanting story.

A: POS
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Q: Not badly written, but ultimately preposterous . Toward the end of this novel, the lead character, Reichs' usual heroine Tempe Brennan, remarks on the "remarkable coincidence" of one of the plot points. By this point in the book, this is like pointing out to a rabid dog that it's got some spittle on its chin. This book relies on coincidence so fundamentally that if it were removed, it would fall into 3 or 4 different books with little or nothing to do with one another. Reichs is not a bad writer, and for someone who so clearly comes from a forensic background, is passably adept at character, plot and scene setting. She knows how to build suspense and intrigue, and never lets the technicalities of her lead character's profession -- a forensic anthropologist -- or the intricacies of her work, undermine the story. This book centres on Brennan's investigation of a religious cult that perpetrates a set of murders. There are lots of interesting points about how cults work, ritual murder and even large group awareness programs get in on the action. And, of course, several forensic investigations where we are treated to the processes of digging up bones, collecting maggots and bugs, and examining various grim bits of the human body. What undermines this book is that the first half is at least three different, unrelated stories; and the second is such a clumsy and outrageous merging of them into one, that one drifts from disinterest to incredulity. The jacket cover says this book is about the excavation of a 19th century nun's bones, and the mysteries therewith. In fact, this is just story number 1, which is of only tangential importance to the ultimate, main storyline. It is not obvious, even in terms of the world of Death du Jour, why Reichs needed all this intermingling. It feels like she started writing a travel journal, then stuck a murder into each of her ports of call, then simply declared that they all belong to the same overarching plot. In this context, each individual story feels derivative, and the grand plot feels like a desperate trick. A well-written and, at times, interesting book, which is ultimately unsatisfying and preposterous

A: NEG
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Q: Belaborment . Since many of the positives of this book were mentioned by other reviewers, I'd like to point out a few of the book's undesirable qualities. First off, belaboring the point. When I read a cookbook, each recipe doesn't specify to sift the flour. That information is usually provided at the beginning and by inference is applied to all subsequent recipes. When I read time and time again that Ed isn't using bottled oxygen, it starts to drive me nuts. Yea I get it. You're the man. You don't use supplemental oxygen unless you're a guide, so don't keep reminding me. Maybe this style of writing was to make the record absolutely clear, I don't know. For myself, I would appreciate an author more if they had faith in the readers to remember one generality placed in the beginning of the book. Secondly, was this book edited? On page 278 Ed says "I've always believed that you need to listen to the mountain and watch for the signs it's giving you." Then on page 282, on the same ascent of Annapurna, he says "I've always believed that the mountain tells you whether to go up, stay put, or go down." He just said this! Even an amateur copy editor would see this and recommend removal. Maybe this really isn't a 2nd criticism just a corollary of the first. The negatives aside, the substory concerning the French hiker Jean-Christophe Lafaille was excellent. And learning of Ed's early days in Washington racing up Rainier was pretty cool. Ed's candor concerning other hiker partners is somewhat interesting, if almost risque. I am thankful to Mountain Hardwear for providing this book for free......I would recommend taking it out on loan from the library because its definitely not work taking up space in a book shelf (there's little 2nd read potential here)

A:
NEG
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