Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: For the book and the people, WWII's end is a bad thing

The introductory chapters are overwhemingly poetic. And the bulk of the novel, until the Italian surrender, is wonderful--working at all the levels needed to tell the story of the lovers, the friends, the country, and the war. Unfortunately, when the Italians are about to be given up to the Germans, Des Bernieres makes a radical shift in storytelling style whose austerity fails to accomplish what De Bernieres might have intended. The writing (and perhaps also, this reader) are not up to the challenge.And sadly, the concluding ~80 pages take yet another wrong turn. While they may have been an acceptable construction if presented by themselves, the painful lack of consonance with the first three-quarters of the book make them a dissatisfying read.The book is nonetheless a gorgeous and recommended read, but the glory is in the beginning and the middle, not the end.