Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Tough to start, but worth the effort...

This book was optional reading in college (for a class called The Philosophy of Love and Sex), and I'm glad I took the option. It was difficult to start; L&G is a very sweeping book whose narrative runs from the protagonist's childhood up through his adulthood and bounces around in between. It's supposed to be the story about his affair with an artist and his attempt at making a meaningful life in Communist Prauge, but it covers so much more: censorship, marriage, familial relationships, work. I've read it again since college and appreciated it all the more. How do we make our lives new? How do we make love work? This book still has me asking those questions.