Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: tedious and long-winded

The book begins with several pages of the author telling us how wonderful his wife is and a attempt-at-humor interview with himself. It then goes on to explain in detail how to burn data to a CD-ROM, followed by another few pages of how to create a contact sheet for the CD's jewel case. Just before the serious reader gives up on the book, it finally gets us to Adobe Bridge and the beginnings of information with substance. Though the book is filled with useful practical information, it is so bloated with banter-like filler that it makes for tedious reading. Like so many other of these types of how-to computer books, the some 450 pages could easily be condensed to half the size. But the publisher needs have justification to charge $40 for the book, hence the filler. I can recommend this book only if money is no object and you have a lot of patience.