Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A hard to love work

I stopped reading this book before being halfway through, simply because I found it hard work and wanted to read something more immediately rewarding. I then read The Unconsoled and Ishmael, neither of which I could put down. AHWOSG does have some very entertaining passages but deep down I always felt I would give up because the book is never wholly satisfying. Really, its mostly a rant. A truly great writer would not find it especially difficult or challenging to write in this rambling, unstructured way but I'll give 2 stars to Eggers for at least trying. More than anything else this book makes you appreciate works of literature that actually say something about life and the world rather than just the author.