Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Mean spirited with a capital MEAN!

Now that I'm finished with THE WIFE, I find myself wondering what made the narrator's voice so throughly, unremittingly off-putting. The answer, I think, is that when not filled with a kind of self-congratulatory contempt for the ego of successful writers, (and, by the way, this book is all about how writers crave fame and not at all about many writiers, male and female, who write because they need to write), it reeks with contempt and scorn for unsuccessful writers. And the wives of writers. And the narrator's own troubled children. In fact, everyone.The voice here is so cynical, so knowing, so obsessed with reputation, that I found it unbearable. I'm not a writer so maybe I'm naive about this, but I don't buy that even in the muscular era of Norman Mailer,Philip Roth etc., all writers cared about were prizes and sales and...other people's wives.