Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: It ripped scabs off of old wounds.

I was a fat child and fat teen. This book brought back all the horror, pain and alienation of being different, of not being socially acceptable. Though my life has been considerably happier (thankfully) than Dolores', we traveled many of the same emotional paths. I couldn't put the book down. I cried through much of it. How Mr. Lamb could know all the interwoven emotions of a girl overcoming these problems is beyond me. Cudos to Wally Lamb.