Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: An Awkward Treatment of Time Series Econometrics

Patterson's text is perhaps one of the worst econometrics textbooks that I have come across in recent years. The writing is cumbersome and unwiedy, the exposition is awkward, and the overall treatment of the subject is rather tiresome, uninspiring.The only reason that I did not give this book a "one-star" is that it could serve a useful purpose: it can show budding econometric textbook authors how not to write a textbook.