Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A musty slog through the country slide

Fans of the great E.F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series will recognize this book for the awkward and charmless knockoff that it is. All the brilliant characters from Tilling are here in disguise: Colonel Flint, uber-dyke Irene, even the parson's mousey little wife Eve, everyone's been dragged out of their coffins and propped up around the tea table. Even without knowing Benson's work, it would be hard to warm to stroytelling this clumsy and stiff with dialogue that flows like a telegraph.