Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Bureaucratic-style prose makes for a very boring read

Slogging through this thick and stilted text, one gets the opinion that Peter Cozzens wrote this piece for a governmental bureau rather than for the civil war reader. Although detailed, the author's writing style is so incredibly laborious and boring that it can not be digested in anything less than small doses. Reading is supposed to be informative and fun, although you can forget the fun part when reading Cozzens. What's more, the analysis is also lacking.