Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Dummy downed

Any book that starts out every chapter by profusely praising the writer has to be a little worrisome.Nevertheless, I read it hoping for some new insights. None came. It could have been so much more interesting if I could have learned the methods by which he came to his conclusions, or if the conclusions themselves were not such dumb one-liners.It's obvious that one can make numbers reflect what one wants them to reflect. This book was not very intelligently written because the author does not give his audience enough information about his methods or reasoning, nor does he provide any valuable new insights.What I was left with was an "duh" feeling, without the preceding "oh, really?!"