Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not her best, but readable, 3.5 stars

I hate to give a less than glowing review of any of Lessing's work, but this book is not one of her best. At best she can be transformative to read, I'm thinking of The Four-Gated City, The Sweetest Dream, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, Love Again. She has written some stellar books. Here, she is full of brilliant ideas, but they aren't fully integrated into the novel, so it is a little clunky to read, story hung with politically astute insights. Also, it's a little bit dated, such as, the protagonist is 45, which was considered quite a bit older in the 60s and 70s than we consider it now that the "Baby Boomers" are well over 45. There is a recurring dream in the book that could have been edited completely out, or at least made not as intrusive. It didn't add enough to justify how much of it there was.