Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Mediocre at best

While providing some idea of what living in Beirut was like, as an american who grew up in Beirut, I found this an uninsightful blase accounting of what were extremely exciting times, to say the least. This is good example of why foreign reporters were generally regarded as idiots by fellow americans living in the region. It is particularly amusing, that Mr Freidman currently enjoys celebrity status based in large part on this C- work. That's some good marketing!