Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: At Weddings and Wakes was a better book...

than Charming Billy. But neither is A-list reading; McDermott is not a must-read author. Thank goodness discriminating readers don't rely solely on award-nominees and -winners (or, for that matter, Oprah picks) or we would become the nation of illiterates everyone keeps predicting.