Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Strangely Droll

A former coworker gave this book to me when she was finished with it because she was curious as to my response. I found it to be almost a parody of itself. As a person who has had to challenge lowered grades openly given for taking a moderate leftist position on papers when I was in college, I find it amazing that people will actually take these positions, especially considering the fact that the people who run both the public and private universities in the U.S. are almost exclusively conservative. Sure, there are liberal and leftist professors, and sometimes they do show a heavy bias in the classroom, but there are also quite a number of professors of a conservative ilk who, from my experience, are almost guranteed to show a heavy bias in their classrooms. That being as such, though, I still must give Mr. Horowitz credit for the quality of his writing. Hence the 2nd star.