Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Read the book instead

Isabelle Holland's The Man Without a Face is a strong, daring work that deserves wider attention than its placement in the ghetto of "young adult" fiction. Unfortunately, Mel Gibson's film version does to the story what the car accident did to the visage of his character--disfigures it beyond recognition.Here the original is bowdlerized and trivialized. It's decent enough entertainment, but it should have been so much more.Read Holland's novel and skip the movie.