Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Highly Over-rated but a Good Guide to Singlish

Having read several raving reviews about this novel, I'd expected far more of it. Being an expat, previously in the Netherlands and now in Singapore, I expected to identify much more with some of the issues raised.This book was somewhat of a struggle to get through - but was a good guide to Singlish ("Singapore English") 101. Other than that I found it fairly plain reading and as deep as the Singapore river (ie, not at all).