Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Like a personal journal that gets you on Jerry Springer

I was recommended this book by someone on a plane - saying it was very funny.Maybe - in the German version she was reading. But the original English version was SAD, verging on depressing and not at all funny.Then, I started questioning how much of the memoir is true. Even if the story is told from a adult recollection of her crazy childhood, it is barely plausible. I read the whole thing, just to see how it ended. That her life changed for the better is not really explored. The story just seemed to wane - like the author was just too spent to provide insight or inspiration.I was hoping for redemption, or hope - like in the book "Come Back to Me". Unfortunately, I never found it in "The Glass Castle".If this story is entirely true, then I applaud the author's success in rising above her unfortunate circumstances. But I never understood what lessons she learned that deserve to be shared with a wider audience. So I cannot recommend this book.