Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Excellent style, but the message is heavy and trite

This is a charming allegory, only mildly irritating in its vague dream-like quality, until you realize that the thing being allegorized is the Oldest Cliche' of All: You Shall Not Seek Knowledge, Because It Is Evil. It's not very clear whether its main objective is science or technology: perhaps it does not distinguish between the two. Or perhaps it considers both the epitome of sinful wickedness, not even graced by some evil greatness. In the end, the City is destroyed and everybody lives happily in bucolic bliss, renouncing all those gadgets that only make life miserable. I was intensely irritated by the Message this book clearly tries to deliver. The resemblance to Gene Wolfe is, ultimately, superficial and misleading.