Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Pompous, Overblown, Long-Winded and Meandering...

...and the book wasn't all that great either.In this novel the locally esteemed NYC ethnic author Edgardo Vega Yunque de Soto Manheim von Richtofen attempts to achieve a sort of surrealistic experience reminiscient of later Marquez...and fails. His "zany" team of Freudians reads like a watered down bit of Joe Heller that a decent editor would have snipped. The story is meandering and disconnected and the prose is so mannered and purposefully arched that it takes the reader right out of the story. The pompous prose distracts from the rest of the book.I won't be reading any further Yunque novels. If you want to read Marquez, then read Marquez and not this watered down attempt to emulate him.