Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: sabatini's best

so many of sabatini's novels are tough to get thru, due to his purple prose writing style. this tho is by far and away the best-written of any of the books i've read, and should be THE one you read if you're only going to read one sabatini novel. but once you start with them, you just can't stop...