Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Hilarious

Balzac is at his best in this very witty tale about a devious old maid who schemes against her family in nineteenth-century France. It's so much fun to watch the contemptible Bette manipulate everyone around her, and to follow her pathetic and ill-placed obsession for a certain young Polish character who marries her young, beautiful cousin.Everything fun is in this book-courtesans, lecherous old men, unfaithful young lovers, and of course, the virtuous, who get treated terribly and die abandoned and alone. Wretched Bette dies loved and valued. You will have a lot of fun reading this book and enjoying-and getting disgusted with-all the characters.