Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Lost In The Ghetto

This is a very entertaining book about the life of "Iceberg Slim", aka Robert Beck. It gives the reader an inside look at the underworld of hustling. Also, the book gives the reader a chance to see the "human side", (or just like everyone else side) of someone who had become a pimp. The book does this by telling the story of Robert Beck's childhood and how he was an excellent student, although he really never applied himself, for long, to anything that could be considered "constructive". The interesting thing to me is how often he liked to read. The vernacular of "The Life", was interesting along with the relationship of the pimp and the whore. There was sort of a sense that a hustler had to be alert at all times, even though they are often abusing a drug to controll their anxiety. This was a very entertaining book. Robert Beck was fortunate to live long enough to tell his story before it claimed him as it has claimed so many others.