Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: The Dead Horse Beaters - A Radical Manifesto

Book 3 of the EC Series and the author has a time tested character, milieu, and style. By this book, however, the formula is wearing thin even, apparently, for the author. No longer satisfied with spinning a good yarn, in Mammoth Hunters the author abandons both the pretext of pure fiction and subtlety of delivery. The story takes a distant back seat to moral soapbox and is now merely a weak medium by which to promote the author's social, political, and economic views.While no literature stands completely divorced from the convictions of the author, few outside of political tracts and religious parables so brazenly and unapologetically beat the reader about the head and neck. Mammoth Hunters is a heavy-handed exercise in the author's literary self-indulgence.Love it or hate it, your appreciation of this book with probably depend more on your social and political leanings than on your enjoyment of the first two books.