Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Topic is interesting, but style is lacking

Gil Bogen's book on Johnny Kling is informative- but rather poorly written. He uses language in describing the early twentieth century games that is clearly derived from the "purple prose" of the times, but it comes across as awkward and stilted. It would be one thing if he simply quoted such language- but his version of it is forced. In addition, there is much "blow by blow" description of games, which gets boring very quickly. Finally, he persists in calling Johnny Kling a "premier catcher" in seasons where he caught 100 games. This is an arbitrary categorization- it is true that there has been discussion over the years of catchers who caught 100 or more games the most seasons ( sometimes the most consecutive seasons), but I am not aware of any place where calling such catchers premier is established.The most interesting part of the book is the research on his Jewish heritage. Otherwise, I would not recommend it.