Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: A pure pulp read

A History of Violence offers you the reader some truly great pulpy thrills. I found the theme of how far an ordinary man would go to protect himself and his family to be reminiscent of the Sam Peckinpah movie Straw Dogs. The grisly cover art of the book is very cool indeed: a power drill, axe, some barbed wire and a baseball bat all lying in a pool of blood. This art work lets the reader know what they are in store for and boy does this story pack a punch. I strongly recommend this grapic novel to anyone willing to venture into some dark territory. John wagner really knows how to write and Vince Locke certainly knows how to deliver some gritty visuals. Buy it now !