Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: The Hopelessness of 'Hope' - A Study in Outdated Orientalism

The title should have put me off the book. The review of a particular pseudo-academe should have warned me of the shallowness and ingrained `cultural' single-vision of the author - but I went ahead and entered a feast of illiteracy and generalizations the like of which exists only in medieval travelogues. If one believes that an Arab barely makes it as a human being, this book is a gem. It eases the suggested pains' of encountering an Arab and the implied `torment' of visiting an Arab country.On the other hand, if one considers the Arabs as a group of peoples with differing cultures, habits and customs, some of which do accord with Western (even Orientalist) perception of culture, other do not, then the book is offending, insensitive and is a caricature of an anthropological sketch.