Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: This book is awful.

I felt totally duped into buying this book. It was recommended along with The God of Small Things, which is an amzing literary novel. This book seems to be self-published, full of typos and nearly impossible to read as it is so poorly written. I have no comment on the content -- I couldn't get far enough into it. This is the first time in my life I can say that I'd have been better off [using my money for something else]. If you are at all interested in this book, you should just know what you are in for. No one proofread the manuscript!