Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Serve a book's worth of time with the few, the lousy

This is an omnibus edition of all three of Fraser's 'McAuslan' novels, "The General Danced at Dawn", "McAuslan in the Rough", and "The Sheik and the Dustbin". The stories cover the years 1945 to 1947 as a young lieutenant Dand MacNeil (the barely disguised George MacDonald Fraser himself) serves with the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders in North Africa and Scotland. I laughed steadily thourghout the book. While Private MacAuslan, the world's dirtiest soldier, isn't the central charecter in every chapter (actually short stories), the Jocks (Highlanders) who serve with him are each unique and astonishing in their own rights.One warning, you may find the dialect of the Jocks a bit hard to follow at first. Persevere, read thru the dialouge and you'll find you will understand their lingo quick enough.