Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Violence Du Jour

I read the whole thing, and wished I hadn't. The writing is great. The situations are convincing, except for the killer sex. The characters are consistent and generally avoid stereotypes. But I felt exploited by the use of violence that seemed entirely prurient, violence solely for the sake of sensation. I did not learn anything from the way the characters dealt with it, largely because they and their grim circumstances were foreign to my own experiences, and probably those of most other readers. I want to encounter people whom I recognize or imagine I might meet. I want to feel like their experiences might be my own. There's a lot of shock value in this book, but it only left me feeling used.