Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Too dry for me

Maybe I expected too much from this book. The author seems far too proud of his researching skills and never fails to mention useless bits of informtion that he found. He even goes on his own little personal trips down memory lane, which just made him seem a little pompous to me. But the overall amount of information made me feel like I was swimming against the current to get to the interesting things. Like telling me the life story of a man who did nothing but report the eruption.For example, his plate tectonics explanation was far too complex and riddled with unrelated information. I found myself skipping over large portions because they were simply too technical or had nothing to do with plate tectonics.Overall, I found the book uncompelling and the author's need to show off his researching skills snobby.