Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Average book, arrogant author

This is a decent read if a little long and sometimes tedious and often grim. But this guy's books should be boycotted ! He's so arrogant that he argues that he is "high" art as opposed to popular art and was horrified to be an Oprah book. He thinks that men may be put off by that (presumably being all too sophisticated even to think about watching Oprah--sports being so high brow!) I'm male and offended on my behalf and on behalf of my girlfriend, who' certainly bright enough to "understand" the big messages Franzen has to offer. And they're the same old messages--American materialism, family alienation, the nobleness of the greatest generation. I say (...) pick up something much better (... and) buy something wonderful by Eudora Welty.