Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: For Novices to the Topic Only

This book may be of some use to novices to the topic who want a cursory look at the lives and careers of Ormandy, Muti and Sawallisch, but it's not going to be of much use to anyone who already has even a moderate degree of familiarity with the subject matter.At times, it reads like a high school book report; with just one fact after another, almost in list fasion. And none of the facts are going to be surprising to people who have already done some reading (whether it be other books or on the Internet) on these three conductors.Barry