Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: The book that started it all...

When I was a teenager my family and I were on a summer vacation to Washington D.C. and were visiting a local area book store when I happened upon this book. I'd always liked comic collections (had a pretty good collection of Far Side & Bloom County books at home), so I started flipping through it. Soon I was laughing out loud and reading them to my Mom & Dad, and we bought the book. After that I was hooked, and waited anxiously for each new collection to hit the bookstore.This first collection is fun because you can definitely see how Calvin & Hobbes are a bit more raw & simply drawn, but the ideas and writing are uniformly excellent. A great start to the greatest comic strip to ever hit the funny papers!