Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Thoroughness Does Not Equal Excellence

If there was ever a story that exists pre-packaged as a compelling narrative, it is the story of Pol Pot. Mr. Short has somehow managed to reduce this dramatic historical episode to a mind-numbing list of names, dates and places. Everything relating to how this as a wrenching human experienece seems to have been methodically removed to the point that it reads like a 500-page atlas index. It is very thoroughly written. Every detail in Pol Pot's life and career that is possible to know seems to have been discovered and documented........and turned into an extremely boring book.