Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Far more than true crime.

If you're looking for an appendix to The Alienist, Low Life would serve admirably. But in this book, Sante goes further than Carr and creates a vivid and fascinating -- and intellectually responsible -- piece of social history. The "low life" of the title isn't crime, or sex -- it's economic deprivation, which, Sante implies, has created the lurid conditions described therein. With a firm grasp of New York's abovegroud social history and a sense of bawdy fun, Sante creates in beautiful prose a portrait of the underground and reminds us how much the dispossessed and forgotten have contributed to our own daily lives as New Yorkers and as people. The graceful and inspring bibliographic essay is a nice bonus.