Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A Beautifully-Written Story of the Early 1900's

Ragtime has been made into a motion picture and a Broadway show, but the book surpasses both. It's the story of four families - wealthy, poor, black, and immigrant - in the New York of 1906. Doctorow weaves their stories into a tapestry of turn-of-the-century America. Harry Houdini, J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, and other notables stalk through the pages, and we are on the sidelines watching the grand scandal of the time, when a millionaire murders a famous architect over ex-chorus girl, Evelyn Nesbitt. The writing is so rich that you can almost hear Scott Joplin's music. It's an exceptional story and a pleasure to read.