Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Self-indulgent waste of money

I have never been that interested in other people's emails and IMs. Why, then, would I care what these writers email and IM to each other? It seems to provide nothing but filler for what would otherwise be a short, slightly funny, magazine article. The fact that Layner is a published author already is even more appalling. He should know better. The medical items are further buried in a (hopefully) fictional story of a party the authors attend. The details of that are too lengthy and both boorish and unneccessary. When I compare this book to truly well-written and informative tomes such as Freakonomics, I wonder (a) how this made the NYT best-seller list, (b) got such great reviews, and (c) how to get my money back.