Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not much of a novel.

OK, I know this story first hand, literally. I was stunned by the author's grasp of the details, of his ability to state bluntly the utter banality of so many of the things American men find so irresistable about Russian women. However, the story itself is as dry as dust. Greenburg's attention to the codification of the American-man-meets-gorgeous-Russian-woman-and-falls-madly-and-irrationally-in-love story is noble, but as the relationships themselves, the story is completely lacking in literary merit. It's old hat now.