Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Good title, poor book.

It's hard to believe that this author actually spent a year observing rats in a New York alley. If he did, he must not have seen anything interesting because almost the entire book is about the history of New York and its politics. Even that material seems padded. For some strange reason the author seems compelled to tell us the clothing description and occupational history of almost every character he mentions. Equally strange is the fact that he often tells us how tall these people are! What little information there is about rats is usually common knowledge. The sad part is that he claims to have read a great many books on rats and their behavior during his research for this book but tells us almost nothing of what he learned. I suspect that he is not very interested in rats after all but just used the title to sell his book. Unfortunatily it worked