Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Greatly admire the author - did not care for book.

I greatly admire the author for his achievements in journalism (especially since he was not formally schooled in this area) and as an actual race participant. A gutsy guy who wasn't afraid of going against the norm by quitting a well paying corporate job and persuing/realizing his dreams. Pretty amazing stuff.However, I did not care for the book. The author did not inspire me or educate me like, say, a Jon Krakauer does (author of similar types of "adventure" books like Into Thin Air and Into the Wild) or a Sebastian Junger (Perfect Storm). Too much ink spent on what I believed to be less than interesting and unrelated side tracks. It also would have helped to include detailed maps of the courses and a listing of the final standings of each race listing team members, etc.