Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Not much funny, too much whining

I read Laurie Notaro's "It Looked Different on the Model" and I really liked it, so I picked up this book thinking it would be similar. The format is the same, a series of short essays, but there was not as much humor in this book. Some of the essays were quite funny and I enjoyed them and some were quite poignant, which I also enjoyed. Unfortunately, many of the essays consist of the author complaining that she is extremely overweight, questioning how that happened, and then whining about how her extreme rudeness gets her in trouble. One chapter on each of these topics could have been entertaining, but the author revisits them too many times and I honestly didn't even want to finish reading this book. It became tiresome and although I'm glad I finished because the last couple of chapters were good, I could have done without a great deal of the middle.