Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Disappointment

I was very disappointed by this book. I had high hopes based on some reviews I read elsewhere. What some describe as a readable style I found to be very annoying. There are constant tangents and digressions along with weirdly out of place references and descriptions (He describes Princess Joan as a 'top-drawer white girl). There are many anecdotes in the work that I found interesting but the constant bouncing around killed it. Reading sections of this book is like driving over literary speed bumps.I would recommend instead of this book Barbara Tuchman's 'A distant Mirror'