Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: A quick, entertaining read.

Sandlin's narrative voice combines the absurdity of Tom Robbins, the pithy social observation of Douglas Coupland, the male sexual wanderlust of Phillip Roth. While the novel might have some unrealistic situations - Callahan's exploits involve a lot of "outrageous comedic exploits" and the dialogue is often more concerned with wry social commentary than an accurate reflection of the way people actually talk (see Doug Coupland) - I feel these touches are allowed in the fictions of Sandlin, Robbins, and Coupland because in all three writers' works, such devices labor in the service of an amusing, socially aware and often touching story. Sandlin - and Callahan - are not trying to transcend anything here or shake the foundations of contemprary American fiction. They're just trying to be nice guys with amusing stories to tell, and in this, Sandlin and his beleaguered protagonist succeed.