Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Clever and imaginative

Closer to today than _Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom_. Doctorow's world is a convincing glimpse of what the world might well become. No farfetched gadgets, no space warps or cyber anything. A captivating story of betrayal and redemption, but with the humor you'd expect from Doctorow. The institutional mindset and integral inanity is dead on the mark. The story jumps back and forth from two time points--more interesting than a strictly linear narrative, but not hard to follow. I'd give it 4.5 stars, but it deserves to be rounded up not down.