Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Better Books Available

For lovers of Dickens and those who wish to know more about the alleged affair between Ellen Ternan and Charles Dickens, you will fair far better bypassing Rackham's, The Rag and Bone Shop and sticking with non-fiction. I have given this work one star because anything less is unavailable but to be frank, the book is absolutely terrible. Telling a single story from three differing points of view works well for William Faulkner but not for Rackham as all three voices sound very male and very much the same. The book contains very explicit and bizarre sexual situations and if you have any respect for Dickens at all, you'll feel like you need a shower afterwards. Furthermore, even as a "novel," the historicity and credibility of these events is highly suspect. Skip it.