Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: beautiful book

This is an absolutely beautiful book; I have read it several times. Kaufmann's translation is certainly the best I have encountered, conveying the rhythmic drive, passion, humor and wit of Goethe's brilliant original German. Reading other translations' stuffy attempts at turning this beautiful play into boorishness and pompous moralizing really makes me wonder why Kaufmann's translation, for all its liberties with the text, has not become THE English version.Buy this book; but read it a few times before you judge it. You will find it makes far more sense and becomes far more powerful each time you peruse it.