Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Bringing the early west alive

This thrilling, gripping novel brings to life the adventure and drama of the West in the 1820s, the era of the fur trappers. Based on the true story of Hugh Glass, a trapper who sought revenge after being left for dead by his colleagues following a bear mauling. The writing is vivid and compelling and, well, you'll have a hard time putting it down. Michael Punke has obviously done his research, too, because the reader practically can feel what it must have been like to have been on the Missouri River in the 1820s. Probably the best novel about the early West since Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove books.