Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: YAWN

I started reading this book after finishing "A Concise History of Scotland" and this one paled by comparison. The book about Scotland was a masterpiece of cohesion and interesting writing. Unfortunately, the only thing the two books have in common are the great illustrations.The illustrations in this book about Irish history are the ONLY interesting thing, in my opinion, and the writing never lives up to that quality. It is just one dry fact after another--- so unappealing. Where is the humanity--the people, the cultures, the societies? History should be written in the same vital way in which it occurred.What a shame--this could have been such a good book if the writing had had any life to it.