Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Reading this book was like working in a low wage job

The book was dull, repetative and gross. It lacked any reasonable insight or commentary. Sure, it is a slice of life, but it comes to all the wrong conclusions. Like most people of her ideology, she thinks distribution of wealth, government intervention and unions would go a long way to solving most problems. She fails to consider that government is limited in its largess by taxation. Taking from one pocket to put in another is a zero sum game. And redistribution only goes so far.The idea that the working poor are self sacrificial is just nonsense. They don't "give and give." They, like everyone else, get paid as much as they can get. I am not callous to the plight of the working poor. An expansion of the earned income tax credit may be a good idea. But unions and socialism are no solution.