Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Boring

I think that one word says it all. I read the other reviews and expected to be rolling around laughing at this book. The first essay was promising but turned out dull in the end and the book went down hill from there. I found nothing clever or at all funny in vowell's writing. After the fourth essay I skipped around trying to find the interesting parts, but in the end had to give up and toss it away. Don't waste your money.