Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: very poor effort

Gouldstone comes off as an overzealous inexperienced high-school essayist in this flawed estimation of Costello's work. He brings up the kind of insights that one would think of on his/her own, yet not bother to articulate. Innocent trees died for this book. I'm a big fan of Costello's and was deeply disappointed on all levels, though I now understand why Elvis doesn't often speak with the press. Read Bruce Thomas' "The Big Wheel". It's a better ride.