Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Long descriptions, short ride

I was looking forward to this book as I love driving and I loved this author's last book, Rats. The author packs his family into a rented car and drives across the continent while musing about the history of American roadtrips, starting with Louis and Clark and ending with his own. Unfortunately, it's quite a rambling book, and it would be hard to imagine anyone but a well-known writer being able to pass this off to a publisher. Frankly, most travel blogs are better written than this. Still, there's a lot of interesting trivia that he spouts while driving his family (and readers) batty with his incessent ramblings about spilt coffee and other things too minor to warrent writing a book about. I'll grant him this: don't think I'll ever look at a Holiday Inn or coffee lid the same way again.