Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Wow

Brad Land has made a powerful book. I want to read it again, to savor it more slowly. The narrative pull is so strong that the first read is fast. But even so, what I am most struck by is the craftsmanship. What is amazing is the apparent transparency and immediacy of the voice; yet the text is actually complexly layered. Land has somehow managed to let the damaged boy he was tell the story he couldn't have told then; so the man, the writer, is part of the story without ever intruding upon it. Indeed, that presence is, I think, a crucial part of what makes the narrative ultimately bearable in the end -- because the story couldn't have been told unless the teller survives and transcends. I suspect that a naive reader would come away with the impression that the words just came white hot and unmediated straight onto the page, but there is clearly so very much hard work that has gone into achieving that effect and impact.