Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: ONE OF THE WORST BOOKS WRITTEN. EVER.

There is a distinction about this book; it isn't the worst book we've ever read in our lives, but awfully close. Merman's life has already been revealed in several other times (most notably her 1978 autobiography and the Bob Thomas' solid 1984 I Got Rhythm); here author Geoffrey Mark promises to tell the truth. Really? Where? Merman's alleged lesbian love affair with Jacqueline Susann has been documented already, as has the tragic death of her daughter Ethel Jr. and her very brief marriage to Ernest Borgnine. The book needs major editing and proofreading. Any book boasting lines such as "Romantically, she thought with her vagina" deserves to be slow-roasted, then spit out.