Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Witty idea, but disappointing writing

This book's inventive claim is that the scenes it contains were cut from Austen novels by censors. Actually, they were cut by good editors--it's hard to sound like Jane Austen and this author misses by a mile, so the little essays just sound precious. Sorry, but its leaden prose, and surprisingly passionless given its subject. Unlike a few other reviewers, I had no objection to the idea of eroticizing the classics, but this book doesn't, in many ways, pull it off.