Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Not such a bad beginning

I have been hearing about The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket for about a year, and I had heard mostly good reviews about it. I got this book for Christmas, and I whipped through it in about three days. I found it to be quite amusing, mostly because of the author's continuing commentary on just how depressing the book was. The characters may not be the most well-developed or unique that have ever been created, but I found the story just plain funny. One thing I must say I did not like about it was how the author kept defining words in their context in the story. That was unneccessary, and it got very annoying when words that most kids know were defined over and over again. If you have heard that this is as good as Harry Potter, well, it's not. Not many books are as good as Harry Potter. But The Bad Beginning is a good book to fill the time, and I reccommend it to anyone who is looking for a good laugh.