Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Interesting, yet overall rather tedious.

This book is very interesting in its portrayal of life among the various social classes in New York in the 1880's. However, much of it is very slow reading, with pages and pages devoted to little action. The plot is quite shallow, and although a message does get across, it takes forever for it to reach the reader. Only read this book if you have TONS of time.