Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Gore Vidal blew it this time!

I have always enjoyed Gore Vidal's humor and talent in his other books. I was however shocked by his total lack of sympathy for his own mother and even going so far as mentioning how a spoon played a role in how his siblings were fathered. I was so offended I took the book back and got my money back.This is a nasty little book. I did not even have the motivation to finish reading it! This book made me lose respect for an author who I always considered among the most enlightened ones.