Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Can Vanneman get any worse?

I thought "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" was bad, but this one actually surpasses it in sheer ineptitude. Holmes makes no brilliant deductions, he mostly complains and breaks just as many laws as those he complains about. Watson is written as a combination atheist, sex maniac, socialist and overall boor. Mrs. Asquith can't seem to decide whether to call her husband Henry or Herbert. The book manages to insult Winston Churchill, Cecil Rhodes, Protestants, Catholics, and anyone else that the "author" dislikes. But the biggest insult of all is to the reader's intelligence.