Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Fundamentally Flawed

I'm not even going to get into how bad this book needs a copy editor. It reads like it was rushed (far prematurely) into print.This book was so bad that it made me view all the other Wise/Bauer works through a new, gimlet eye.I have edited this review extensively, because having thought it over, I think that this book's premise is a poor one after all. I think that it reads disjointedly and muddles facts because it skips around so much- it reads like "Here's five chapters on the Middle East. Meanwhile, over in China..."I think that it makes more sense to study the history of a particular culture, nation, or area. In other words, use geography as the spine. Trying to tell what was going on all over the world during any given year (or century) is going to be haphazard most of the time.