Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: i hate to say this, because I had high hopes ... but

this book is really not good. David Ritz's Gaye bio isn't perfect, but it's way better. The quotes Davis uses from interviews are just plain lame: mostly they are broad and impersonal. This book works better as a history of Motown, but not even so well as that.