Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Your First Time

Wallace's is an ideal book for the budding mathematician with some interest in topology and familiarity with basic real analysis (e.g., Bartle). It takes the reader gently from first steps all the way through the complete classification of compact, smooth surfaces, with minimal fuss and bother in surprisingly few pages. (In other words, complete classification of these spaces is not as hard as one may have been led to believe elsewhere.) It is a truly wonderful book that a senior math major or beginning grad student can work their way through over a Christmas break, as I did and I hope they carry away the same fond memory that I do 35 years later.