Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A tedious journey

While I learned a bit about Islam in the course of reading this book, it is a disappointing read--one of those books that starts out strong and, at too great length, peters out well before the final chapter. Toward the end I seemed to be learning more about Naipaul's opinions and biases than about his subjects.That said, the differences observed between the various Islamic countries visited are noteworthy and no less pertinent today than when the book was first released in 1981. I happened to have just read the section on Pakistan when Benazir Bhutto was assasinated, and felt I had a better historical understanding of the events surrounding her rise and fall and return and murder than I would otherwise have held.