Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Last Days of What??

Besides being a bit short for a novel, The Last Days of Publishing seems to be missing so many things that could have made for an interesting and readable novel. I have to agree with one of the other reviews, few of the characters are well developed and they seem to come and go, often with minimal explanation. The plot is also weak and presented in out of chronological order, which makes for anticlimactic reading. Much of the information about publishing could easily be gleaned in various magazines and better written books, such as Betsy Lerner's "The Forest for the Trees" as well as the nostalgia for the 60's, like many of Tim O'Brien's novels, especially "July, July" (which isn't even his best novel). Aside from a clever cover, I can't recommend this book.