Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Shamefully lazy writing

Easily the worst Bellow I've read. There is no story, no structure, no sustained characterization except for Ravelstein, no gentle touches. No female is given flesh. The book reads like Bellow's notes from the last ten years. The writing, like most of Bellow, is intelligent, sometimes quite perceptive, cold-blooded, and attempts irony and false self-deprecation. At times he seems cagey, sly, contemptuous of readers. Virtually the entire "biography" is woven from pastiche and haphazard observations and self-ruminations. Add a star if you're a big Allen Bloom fan (that's where mine came from).