Instruct: Classify an Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Strange undercurrents in a haunting book

One reviewer here says s/he objects to Card's negative view of homosexuality. Did we read the same book? "Songmaster" is certainly in the best Card vein, the exceptional-boy à la Ender tradition; but the ambivalence about homosexuality in it is very apparent. The author may object to acting out one's homosexuality, but almost all the scenes between the Emperor, Mikal, and Ansset are heavy with homosexual desire, very well expressed too. (Nothing R-rated; it's elegantly done in undercurrents.) Anssett's subsequent fate belongs straight in the hurt/comfort subgenre. Of all OSC books, this is probably the one that reads the most like quality fanfiction, and I mean this certainly as a compliment: it's satisfying at a deep level of self-fulfillment, almost as if the author was really writing for himself long before thinking of his audience. I wonder if this is why it's out of print now -- some readers might find the subject-matter a little dicey.