Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Bragg starts at the top of the hill and slides down quickly.

Bragg's book started well and slid downhill quicker than a lard lathered pig. Bragg writes with a ball peen hammer, not a pen. And that hammer has plenty of anger behind it. Growing up as "poor white trash", an alcoholic father and brother, and a mother who raised suffering to an art form is a full plate for anyone. Bragg's writing on Haiti and its people for example, shows far more emotion and style than when he writes about his family or his personal relationships. When he gets to this personal level, his writing becomes mawkish, repetitive and trite. Considering what he went through to get where he is, this could have been a great read had he reined in his anger, his ego and gotten into the real nitty-gritty stuff. I've read many memoirs over the years and this story had all the elements to be a good one, but I think Mr. Bragg was just too close to the forest to see the trees. Next time he'll do better.