Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Pass the Smoke and Mirrors, Please

I despised this book. I felt it displayed two distinct and unhealthy tendencies: making what used to be called "good citizenship" seem a major innovation on the part of 18-to-35 year old "Gen X-ers," and betraying an almost pathological hatred of older Baby Boomers. (Hey lady, we didn't ask to be born in record numbers!) Along with that goes a prose style that is "loopy" in both the literal and slang senses of the word: it buzzes round and round topics without really getting into them, and it employs too much slam-bang hyperbole.My advice to the author: CALM DOWN and realize that the metaphors you learned in video production don't automatically transfer to the printed page. You keep telling us and telling us that your generation has plenty to say, and I'm sure it does, but if it says so in print it will have to say so in a linear, sequential fashion. Where is Jedediah Purdy when you need him?