Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A Reader's Dilemma

My comments and review are here based solely on the translation work of Constance Garnett, not the actual text behind it.I found this translation so stilted as to be almost unreadable. This problem was greatest in the short utterances of some of the charcters. They would respond to what the main character of that portion was saying, but I generally had no sense of what those responses meant.My guess is that Ms. Garnett, in her attempt to stay faithful to the Russian, stayed away from using English idiom, but this sadly resulted in severe loss of clarity. I would recommend that potential readers look for a more modern translation.