Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Preachy and boring

This is the first Susan Conant book I've read, and I guarantee it will be the last. I bought it because I liked the cover, I have two dogs and I love mysteries. But she preached on and on about how to buy, show and live with dogs and I got offended and annoyed. I don't need a fiction paperback to tell me how to raise my dogs - that's why I took them to obedience school for three years! I could have overlooked the "I know SOOOO much more than you about dogs" attitude if the mystery (either one of them) had been interesting, but I was bored stiff by the time I finished. The only redeeming quality of this book was the description of the way the dogs behaved. That, at least, was interesting (you would hope someone as obsessed with dogs as Susan apparantly is could at least make their descriptions entertaining, and they were, somewhat.) I'll stick to other authors that don't try to convert me to the dog fan club. I'm already a member.