Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Insipid and simpering.

Having grown up in Rockville Centre myself, I have to wonder what alternate universe Ms. Goodwin is coming from. Her description of her "happy" childhood certainly bears no similarity to the eerily apathetic and segregated (to this day!) bedroom village I knew. I realize that this will have no bearing on the estimations of readers who did not have the "benefit" of being reared in the black hole that is Nassau County, but I have to say that the whole book reads like a fairy-tale revisionist fabrication.